Google HOME The Best Companion

"Google, I need you", this line always comes in our minds whenever we are stuck anywhere or when we have to search something to solve any problem. Simply and clearly Ill say that in every aspect of life we take the help of Google. And not only this, when we are with our friends or colleagues and they ask for some information, we suggest them to take the help of Google. We simply say "Google It Dude" 😉

So, to provide you an assistant Google never steps back, it is always with us..

And now it comes with the Google HOME. It is a home hub device that, for the first time in Googles history, allows you to leverage all of what Google offers without having to tap or click on a screen. 

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Superlative Design

    Google smartly designed the Home to blend in with the rest of the mundane products in your home. Most people would say it looks like an air freshener, and I’d agree. That’s not a bad thing: it’s easy to put the speaker anywhere in your home â€" your kitchen, bedroom, living room, etc. â€" without having it stick out like an obvious piece of gadgetry.

Its only available in white, but you can still match it to your decor by swapping out the bases (Google is selling $20 optional bases that come in a variety of fabric or metal finishes and colors).On top of the Home is a touch-sensitive panel, which can be used to control the device’s volume, play and pause music, and activate its listening mode. Youll see colorful, very Googley lights glow in the panel (you can say) when Home hears its wake words "OK Google" or "Hey Google" or it responds to a command.

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Voice Interface

The only other things youll notice about the top-half of Home are these two divots for the far-field microphones, which theoretically allow Home to pick up your voice commands from across a room. Thats key for a largely voice-controlled product.

The big thing that truly separates Home from our phones is that it completely and absolutely relies on voice commands. It has no screen and only a couple of very basic touch elements. Fortunately, Google has basically nailed it. Interacting through voice alone is so good that it crosses into that territory where its a bit unbelievable.

Home has an uncanny ability to understand almost everything Ive ever said to it.

Home has an uncanny ability to understand almost everything Ive ever said to it. As I said in my first post, it took very little time to become comfortable speaking to Google Home without raising my voice. Ive even grown accustomed to speaking at just slightly louder volumes when Im in a completely different room or Ive got music playing above the lowest volumes.

Connected Speakers

This speaker can change your way of listening music..

A simple "Hey Google, play Discover Weekly" will fire up your personalized Spotify playlist. Or I can say "Hey Google, play some chill music" in the evening and it will comply. The Home works with more precise requests too; I can ask for specific songs, artists, or albums, and it will pull them up in a matter of seconds. All of this is done without requiring me to pick up a device, open an app, or type in anything â€" I just say "Hey Google" and ask for what I want, change the volume, skip tracks, and so on. 

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Search Answers

First, understand that Assistant can follow your use of pronouns and remember context for follow-up questions. That means you can ask "OK Google, who is the President-elect of the US?" and then ask "OK Google, how old is he?", and Assistant will know youre asking about the President-elects age.

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Second, Assistant pulls from most of Googles online services as well as its deep well of search knowledge. You can ask what you should have for dinner, and Google Assistant will locate local places to eat and serve up suggestions. There are endless things you can ask, and nine times out of 10 it will have an answer for you.

Assistant is supposed to smartly hand-off commands too. We use a Google Pixel XL which also has Google Assistant built-in and is meant to be clever enough to understand when youre talking to Home rather than the pho ne. Sadly, thats not the case: more often than not we wouldnt get a response from Assistant on Home, but rather on our phone.

Google Assistant

Home is all about Assistant, really, which is the gateway to question-and-answer information.
Currently, you can call on those everyday, mundane tasks like manage cooking timers, set morning alarms, and remember shopping lists. You can also ask Assistant to fetch weather and traffic information, look up flights, check your calendar, get local business information, and order an Uber for you.

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Assistant even does jokes and trivia: Just say "OK Google, entertain me" and see what happens next.

However, Assistant is a pretty basic assistant right now. Especially for Google and when considering the bigger picture. Wed love if Home could che ck our Gmail for new messages or track our packages, but it cant do that. Wed also like it to text or call our friends for us, like even through our wireless connected Android device, but it cant do that either. Wed even love the ability to add appointments to our Google Calendar or set reminders, but again, it cant do any of that.

At least its got some of the typical stuff down; it quickly became our daily alarm clock and the easiest way to check the score of the most recent Miami Hurricanes game.

Verdict

Google introduced a new version of itself at its big product launch event last month. Its finally getting serious about hardware in order to push its excellent ecosystem of services forward. The Pixel phone was a great start, and Home is a thoughtful way to make Assistant even more accessible.

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Home may be a brand new category of gadget, but Assistant is so smart and works so well that its like experiencing a bit of the future right now. Its one of those rare products you didnt even know you needed.

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Article By : Atul Agrawal, Sr. Technical Writer & Editor @ Geek Winky

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