To silence Google Assistant, you can now just tell it “Stop”.

Google is simplifying the assistant mute command. If he talks too much, just say “Stop”.

Voice digital assistants can be very useful in everyday life. That being said, with fairly regular use, some may quickly find them too wordy. Fortunately, with the help of settings and other options, you can reduce the amount of their interference. But sometimes that’s not enough. Today, Google Assistant makes it easy to interrupt your statements.

Google simplifies assistant mute command

Google Assistant is perfect if you want to get information like today’s or tomorrow’s weather, traffic, news, etc. However, sometimes the assistant says a lot more than necessary, tells you more than you want, and up to now, if you wanted to silence him, you had to give him a new command.

Which could be quite tedious and not entirely natural since you had to say “OK Google stop”. Strange, to put it mildly, really. After all, it’s not the kind of thing you would naturally say to someone to silence them. Google is aware of the situation and just released an update allowing users to simply say “Stop”.

If he talks too much, just say “Stop”.

This means that if the Google Assistant has been ranting over and over again and you have the information you need, instead of letting it finish or asking it to do something else, you can just say “Stop”and the assistant will immediately stop talking. The strange thing is that Google has already implemented this feature for timers and other alarms. It’s hard to see why this is only happening now with every other Google Assistant feature.

In any case, better late than never. Either way, the next time a Mountain View assistant talks too much, you’ll know what to do. A simple “Stop”and there will be silence!