Everything you need to know about Google Home

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id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body"> Welcome to CNET's guide to the Google Home smart speaker and Google's growing lineup of smart home gadgets. Perhaps you're wondering if you need a smart speaker, a smart display, both or neither. Do you want one with Google Assistant or with Amazon's competitive voice assistant, Alexa? Should you buy one now or wait for the new Google Nest Hub Max coming this summer? Maybe you've already made your decision and bought one of Google's smart speakers or smart displays and now you want to know what you should do with it. I can help. Below, I'll familiarize with the basics of Google Home, then dive into everything you can do once you're up and running. I'll also look at the flaws of the system and what's next for Google's smart home. If you're not sure whether you want a Google Home, an Amazon Echo or perhaps an Apple HomePod, I can help with that, too. CNET has created a guide to buying the right smart speaker for you, and here's a breakdown of the three main digital assistants built in to smart speakers -- Google Assistant, Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri. If you just want to get caught up on the latest, here are the highlights from Google I/O 2019. What is Google Home? The smart speaker from the eponymous search giant was designed to compete with the popular Amazon Echo. The Google Home can play music, but it's primarily designed as a vehicle for Google Assistant -- Google's voice-activated virtual helper that's connected to the internet. The Google Assistant you access via the Home is the same as the one on recent Android phones such as the Google Pixel 3A. The Google Home is always listening to its environment, but it won't record what you're saying or respond to your commands until you speak one of its preprogrammed wake words -- either "OK, Google" or "Hey, Google." Here's a list of commands you can give your Google Home. Now playing: Watch this: The first 5 things to do with a new Google Home speaker 3:59 Google actually has three smart speakers. Google Assistant debuted in the original $100 Google Home. The $50 Google Home Mini squeezes all of the smarts of the original into a smaller, more affordable package. The $300 Google Home Max puts Google's smarts into a speaker designed to deliver premium sound. All three speakers give you access to the same Google Assistant service. They differ in size, sound quality and price. You use the same Google Home app to set up all three, and they all respond to the same wake words and commands. Read more: Which Google Home speaker should you buy? The JBL Link 300 offers a lot of sound quality for the price. Sarah Tew/CNET You can also use Google Assistant through a variety of third-party smart speakers such as the portable TicHome Mini and the JBL Link series. The Sonos One will work with Google Assistant later this year as well, though Sonos has been promising that update for awhile. Unless it's specifically stated otherwise, all of the Google Home features I discuss below work with any Google Assistant-enabled smart speaker. Pick your speaker, then check out our tips for getting started. Here are a few tricks specific to the original Google Home and a few tricks specific to the Google Home Max. In addition to the voice commands, each Google Home speaker has a limited set of physical controls. You can change the volume, mute the microphone, and play or pause your music via a physical interface on the speaker. Check out the video below for details on these physical controls. Where to buy a smart speaker You can buy the original $100 Google Home, the $300 Google Home Max and the $50 Google Home Mini online via the Google Store. You'll also find Google's speakers at a number of electronics stores, including Best Buy and even hardware stores such as Lowe's. Third-party speakers like the $250 JBL Link 300 are also widely available at electronics stores. The prices of the Google Home and Google Home Max dropped after I/O, making the Max in particular more appealing at $300 instead of $400. Making music Once you get your Google Home set up, you may want to use it to listen to music. You can use a Google Home as an ordinary Bluetooth speaker and pull up the song you want to listen to on your phone. Better yet, use your voice to tell Google what song you want to hear. You can even search by lyrics if you don't remember the name, or tell it to start a playlist of a certain genre. Google pulls songs from a variety of streaming services including Google Play Music, Spotify, Pandora and YouTube. In the Google Home app, you can pick one of those services as your default, and Google will search that service first when you ask for a song or a playlist. You can still access music from any of the other services by asking for it by name. Here are nine tips for getting the most out of your Google Home as a music streamer. The article also discusses how to group multiple speakers so you can play a single song synced throughout your house. If you don't like the sound quality of your Google Home or Google Home Mini (both are serviceable but not outstanding) you can send music to your speaker of choice via either a Chromecast streamer or a Bluetooth connection. Now playing: Watch this: How to control your TV with Google Home 2:04 Google Assistant can even play music on your TV if it's Chromecast-enabled, and you can ask it to play your favorite TV show through a variety of streaming services such as Netflix and HBO Now. You can control Roku streamers and TVs with your voice as well, but can't launch Netflix on Roku devices. At I/O, LG announced several TVs with Google Assistant built in. You have to push a button on a remote to give a voice command, so the TV isn't always listening. Sony was the first to offer TVs with similar voice control functionality. Google Assistant will soon come built into Samsung TVs and Dish Hopper DVRs as well. Ready to assist Since it launched in November 2016, the Google Home has gotten a lot better as a personal assistant. Here's a look back at the smart speaker's eventful 2017 and the many new features it gained throughout the year. Here is Google Assistant's 2018 in review. Google also had a massive presence at the tech showcase called CES in Las Vegas in January. Here are all of the company's CES announcements. You could always ask your Google Home to perform basic tasks like searching the web and checking your calendar. Now, Google Assistant in your smart speaker can do so much more. You can train Google Assistant to recognize up to six distinct voices, which will enable it to customize its responses based on who's talking. Google can then offer personalized answers if you ask about your commute to work or your schedule for the day. You can add different profiles for each member of your family and if you want Google Assistant to respond to you in a unique voice, you have several options now, including musician John Legend. Better yet, different family members can pick different voices, and Google will switch which one responds based on who's talking. Read more: The best Google Home commands for health, nutrition and fitness With the Continued Conversation feature, you don't have to say the wake words every time you want to ask a question. The Google Home's microphone stays hot for up to 8 seconds so you can ask a follow-up question without saying, "Hey, Google" again. It'll shut off early if you say "Thank you," and if you don't want Google's mic to stay listening for longer than normal, you don't have to enable the feature. As of Google I/O 2019, you can also skip the wake words when an alarm or timer is buzzing. Just say "stop" and you'll be able to silence your smart speaker. While your alarm is sounding, "stop" essentially functions as an additional wake word. You can even make purchases via the Google Home verified only by your voice. Be careful with this functionality, though, as we were able to fool its voice recognition fairly easily. Now playing: Watch this: Tricking voice recognition on Amazon Echo and Google... 5:07 Thanks to frequent feature updates, you can now do quite a few things with your Google Home. Here's how to find the full list of its capabilities, including third-party skills. Other highlights of the Google Home's resume include: Broadcasting: Make an announcement to one Google Home and it will play on all connected smart speakers throughout your home. You can also reply to a broadcast with a simple voice command. Recipe assistance: Your Google Home can help you cook with step-by-step instructions, skipping forward and back as needed. Calling: You can use your Google Home speaker to make a phone call. (Note: You can't use Google Assistant to make calls on third-party speakers for now.) Multiple commands: You can issue two commands to your Google Home in sequence. Night mode: Your Google Home can automatically lower the volume of its vocal responses and music streaming at certain times of the day. Storytime: Your smart speaker can read aloud a number of stories from Disney and Nickelodeon. Better yet, you can read certain stories while your Google Home provides appropriate music and sound effects. Multiple lists: You used to just be able to make shopping lists with your voice. Now you can create to-do lists, gift lists and more. Routines: Give a command such as "Good morning" or "I'm leaving" and you can customize your Google Home to respond in a variety of ways, including telling you about your commute, playing the news and controlling your compatible smart home devices. Google Home in the smart home Routines make it easy to control multiple smart home devices with a single command. Plus, they're getting better. At first, you had to pick from six prepackaged options. Now you can customize the command that activates the routine and add any element you want to any routine -- including podcasts, smart home controls, music playlists and calendar updates. Routines are getting more advanced, as you can now train your smart lights to come on gradually leading up to your scheduled wake you time. They will soon be integrated with apps like Google Clock, so your alarm can trigger your morning routine. Third parties will also be able to build specific functionality for routines, such as playing meditation music on your Google Home. With customizable routines and now more than 30,000 compatible devices, the Google Home's gotten quite comfortable in the smart home. You can now sync a variety of devices with your Google-equipped smart speaker. Here's a guide to getting started with a Google-centric smart home. If you treasured this article and you would like to get more info regarding gluten free recipes - https://www.facebook.com/groups/thebestglutenfreerecipes/ generously visit the web site.

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Everything you need to know about Google Home

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