If your Google Assistant-powered good residence show or speaker is rambling on and on after you requested it for the climate, you can now tell it to “stop” with out having to say “Hey Google” first. It’s a small, however welcome, change and one which makes interacting with a digital assistant just a bit extra pure.

Google’s good residence gadgets have had a model of this function for years, the place you can silence an alarm with out saying “Hey Google.” It’s good to see it increasing to silence the Assistant, too — saying “stop” once you need one thing to… effectively, cease taking place is simply so instinctive, like batting at an insect buzzing round your ear.

Google has additionally been rolling out an analogous function on the Pixel 6, with the Assistant’s “quick phrases.” Like on the house gadgets, fast phrases allow you to do sure issues with out saying “Hey Google.” On a Google support page, it says you should use the function to snooze or cease an alarm or reply or decline calls.

From our exams, the function that’s rolled out on Google’s good residence gadgets isn’t a common “stop making noise” command to your good speaker. (To be honest, Google didn’t promise that it could be.) You’ll nonetheless must say “Hey Google” if you wish to cease a music, although that’s in all probability factor — think about attempting to hearken to “Stop! In The Name Of Love” or “Uptown Funk.”