Hey Google, RU OK?

RU OK? It’s a simple question that can save lives. Yet we often don’t pay enough attention to the signs that someone might be struggling. It can be simple as a change in someone’s normal tone or temperament of their voice.

The Voice of Google is normally very upbeat and positive, so to create more awareness for RU OK Day, we’ll tweak its voice from its normal chirpy self, to having a bit of a down day - prompting people to ask ‘Hey, google are you ok?’

When people ask normal questions as they do with their google device, the responses will change in tone with more sighs and longer pauses, or scatterbrained. - signs someone might be down.

Hey google, what’s the weather today?

Sighh,…the weather is cloudy… I think.

Hey google, play my workout playlist

….ok, sorry, im just trying to find it, wait, no that’s not it, sorry I can’t do anything right today

These oddly down responses will prompt people to ask Hey, google RU OK?

Then prompting google to respond - not really today, but everyone has down days etc

Then take them through info