Mastering Google Home

📖 The Scoop

Google Assistant is a digital helper that understands audio commands or questions. Other companies have their digital assistants. For example, Apple has Siri and Amazon has the Alexa assistant. Microsoft also owns the Cortana smart digital assistant. The unique aspect about the Google assistant is its ability to hold a conversation. Other assistants give answers to a single question without answering follow up questions. Google assistant has the ability to hold a conversation. You can ask about specific searches or questions and get answers. Google assistant has the ability to store questions if you are offline, until you can access the Internet. Other online assistants do not have this ability. They work only if you are online. Google assistant also requires the Internet to function. But, it can store queries until there is access to the Internet. Google Home is designed with a feature called My Day. The feature gives you news, weather forecast, traffic, your calendar events, reminders and also any future flight status that you might have. The good news is you are able to customize the My Day feature at any time. When you just get your Google Home device, it only supports a few streaming music services. You can either listen to YouTube Music, Google Play Music, Pandora, and Spotify. Your device will use Google Play Music by default to stream your favorite songs. But if you prefer other options available, you can quickly make the changes under settings on the smart speaker device. This user guide will cover everything it is to know about Google Home devices.  

Table of Contents

Introduction

Ch. 1 – What exactly is a smart speaker?

Ch. 2 – How to Setup your Google Home Smart Speakers

Ch. 3- Life is Good with Google Home

Ch. 4 - Google Home Speaker

Ch. 5 – Best Commands For Your Google Home

Ch. 6 - The New Features of Google Home

Ch. 7 – Alarm and Timer Volumes

Ch. 8 - Stream Audio from Google Home using your Android Device

Ch. 9 - Tasker and AutoVoice Commands in Google Home and Amazon Echo

Ch. 10 - Google Home to Control Your Smart home Devices

Ch. 11 - Recipe Interaction with Google home

Ch. 12 - How to Edit your Home, Work, and Google Home Address

Ch. 13 - Google Home’s Inclusive Multi-User Feature

Ch. 14 - An Exceptional Addition to Voice Commands

Ch. 15 - Setting Up Multi-Room Music with Chromecast Built In Devices

Ch. 16 - Setting up Calls in Google Home

Ch. 17 – Purchasing With Google Home

Ch. 18 – Music, Radio and Podcast Services and their Compatibility

Ch. 19 - Multiple Voice Recognition

Ch. 20 – Additional Features

Ch. 21 - Google Smart Screen

Ch. 22 - Google Home Guest Mode

Conclusion

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