While not the best, theGoogle Pixel Buds Prostill ranks high in our list offavorite noise-canceling earbudsworth your money. Google’s fourth earphones are significantly better than its previous offerings and have only improved since their debut in July 2022. In the 1.5 years they have been on the market, the earbuds havereceived several major updates, adding new features like spatial audio, Conversation Detection, and more. Google’s flagship earbuds are now getting even better with support for Google Assistant Quick Phrases.
With this feature, you can quickly answer or decline a call while using your Pixel Buds Pro by saying “Answer” or “Decline” without tapping the earbuds, picking up your phone, or having to say “Hey, Google.” Quick Phrases on Pixel Buds Pro supports six languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish. Google is also working on adding support for more languages.
You must pair the earbuds with aPixel 6or newer device to use the feature, so if you use the flagship Pixel Buds with a non-Pixel phone, you are out of luck. It also requires you to have only one Google Assistant language selected. While not significant, if you receive a lot of calls during the day and use the Pixel Buds Pro, Quick Phrases will make your life a bit easier.
In itsannouncement, Google says it is working on expanding Quick Phrases to “other Assistant capabilities that are currently available on the Google Pixel 6 and later.” On Pixel phones, you can mute or snooze an alarm by saying “stop” or “snooze” without having to say “Hey Google” first. To enable Quick Phrases, jump into Google Assistant settings > Quick Phrases and enable the feature for incoming calls. If the option to enable the feature is missing, you might have to wait a few more days for the rollout to complete.
Do note that your Pixel Buds Pro may accidentally pick up or reject a call if they hear terms similar to “answer” or “decline.“Google’s support pagehighlights the possibility of other voices saying “answer” can lead to an incoming call being picked up.
Besides Pixel phones, Quick Phrases support in Google Assistant is available on the Nest Hub Max. In fact, it supports up to eight Quick Phrases, two more than Pixel phones. Google was spotted working on custom quick phrases, too, but the feature never saw the light of the day.
The Google Pixel Buds Pro already stand out with their Google Assistant integration. you’re able to invoke the voice assistant by saying “Hey Google” while wearing them. Even better, you canuse the Pixel Buds Pro to translate conversations in real-timeand translate or transcribe audio.
