hotword

English

Etymology

hot +‎ word

Noun

hotword (plural hotwords)

1. (Internet, dated) A hyperlink.
   • 1997, S. M. H. Collin, Setting Up a Web Server, page 154:

     […] and will jump to the Web page "order.htm" if a user clicks on the hotword.

   • 2013, Wolfgang Schuler, Jörg Hannemann, Norbert Streitz, Designing User Interfaces for Hypermedia, page 211:

     Hotwords can be activated fast, typically by a single mouse click. But sometimes the link anchored in a hotword doesn't take the reader to the expected place, because of bad wording, for example.

2. (computing) Synonym of wake word
   • 2015 June 25, Ian Paul, “'OK Google' hotword detection yanked from Chromium after user revolt”, in PCWorld‎^[1]:

     Google recently killed an extension in the open source Chromium browser that enabled “OK, Google” hotword detection. The move follows developer concern that the proprietary functionality was included in Chromium to begin with.

   • 2016 November 3, Ron Amadeo, “The mesh hotword system is straight out of Star Trek”, in Ars Technica‎^[2]:

     Smartphones make a lot of compromises to be compact and low power though, so the hotword performance was never as good as it could be thanks to tiny microphones and low-power modes that could kill hotword detection.

   • 2017 October 11, Gianluca Mezziofiore, “Google is forced to shut down Home Mini feature that quietly records everything”, in Mashable‎^[3]:

     Home assistants all work in a similar way: you say a hotword — "Alexa" for Amazon Echo, "Hey Google" for Google Homes — and they switch on, ready to record your question/order, send it to the cloud, and then answer/execute your order.