Conversation designers carefully craft voice interactions to feel as natural as possible, yet we’re still tied to the feasibility restrictions of mandatory device wake words, rendering all interactions fundamentally, well, robotic. — Implicit wake conditions are the key to natural — and even intimate — voice experiences in 2020 and beyond. Currently, wake words alert a device that it should listen to what the person is about to say next, which may contain an invocation which, in turn, is a trigger phrase…