hello Automators, thanks for tuning in again. i'm going to go through all the
latest news from the Google Assistant and related to the Google Home products
obviously but primarily this week we're talking about Google Assistant its
newest features and its newest upgrades and new products so let's get going
first up there was a ton from CES 2019 and I still want to relay a little bit
of that for you give you an idea when some of these new
features are coming now first off one billion devices are expected to have the
Google Assistant basically by the time you're watching this video so 1 billion
devices now with the Google Assistant on board that's 10 times the Amazon Alexa
installed base just to put it in perspective next up are some of those
new features that Google rolled out basically at CES 2019 the biggest one I
think is the auto interpreter and we've seen that on you know the pixel buds
where the implementation is actually really good where it will in real time
translate for you now some of the demos that have come out have kind of said
that it's a little bit slow still on the Google Home devices this is expected
kind of into April with 27 languages being available a couple other of the
new features that were rolled out we saw the e-ink display and what is
essentially being called the Google Assistant platform to me this is the
biggest thing the Google Assistant is intended for basically companies people
anyone to go out build a small easy little easily integrated device that
works with Google Assistant so the e-ink display and the little IOT button that
was actually a 3d printed button we're very impressive low-cost devices that
were intended to work with the Google Assistant now on top of that you also
have the auto punctuation capability that will obviously work with Google
Assistant enabled devices and phones so you know the biggest thing is messaging
on your Android phone you're going to be able to have it punctuated on the
and there's not intended to be any settings that you need to enable the
other features that we saw the Android devices more and more of them are
getting the ability to access the Google Assistant without unlocking the phone so
you're going to be able to do more with your phone prior to it being unlocked as
of now that's kind of limited to the pixel phone
the other big thing and this integration has already started rolling out Google
Maps now what I'll tell you about the Google Maps integration rate now is a lot
of the features that are promised are not working so you can go ahead and
you'll find when you start navigation that Google Assistant is on board so you
can do some things but for example right now if you want to report your time to
essentially arrive at a destination you're not going to be able to do that
just yet you're going to have to wait a little while longer but they have
started down that path and it is looking very promising
additionally there are going to be flight and hotel reservation options
that you have with your Google Assistant and your Google Home products now moving
on to a product I think this is very cool this is kind of a community product
it's not being sold by anyone right now but project alias is basically a fit on
your Google Home or your Amazon Echo device and it can basically sit on top
and stop the speaker from listening and also it can allow you to change the wake
word so you're able to use whatever you want now this is something that you can
do at home with a couple of components and it's basically a step-by-step
tutorial on how to create this it looks kind of cool it's kind of parasite
looking and you know overall I think it's a great idea and a good add-on to
lots of devices a couple of updates to the Google Assistant overall this is not
necessarily Google Home yet but you can go out and get polish on the Google
Assistant so we're continuing to see Google roll out those new languages for
its assistant and what happens later is get them on these devices now on top of
that the Google Assistant application is getting dark mode and a lot of people
have been asking for this I don't personally care at all but some people
really love the idea of dark mode now the reviews coming in so far are not
good because they're missing components of the UI being in dark mode there's
actually white cards still there so you know overall that's being rolled out
McAfee has what's called a new secure home platform that will be installed on
routers and his Google Assistant capable so that means you're going to be able to
ask your Google Home set of products or really any Google Assistant enabled
device to check your network we've seen this before with McAfee and Amazon with
their voice assistant but this is a deeper integration with the Google
Assistant and allows you to manage your home network in a secure way here are
some specs for a TV and at the end of that at the end of this I will give you
a price and I think you're going to be pretty excited actually this is a 4k
philips TV with android 8.0 the ability to be a cast device so you can cast to
it and it has the Google Assistant on board all of this between 43 and 75
inches in terms of size all for 350 dollars now this is something that
philips unveiled at CES 2019 but I wanted to hit on this again just simply
because of the specifications and the capabilities of that TV when you think
about Android applications on top of the Google Assistant and 4k capability all
for that price I think I'm going to go get one to be honest now when we think
about this and what Samsung has talked about with their Google Assistant
integration their Amazon voice assistant integration and the ability for bixby on
all of their TVs to access a whole suite of Google applications you have a lot of
options out there right now for Smart TVs that are very good and you know it's
not just Samsung anymore I would say Samsung was always leading
in this regard but there are a lot of makers like LG Vizio and when I hear
this TV from Philips who I already like in terms of other products you know
there's a lot of good options on the market today we're getting a little
specific here but poweramp support now has deeper integration with the Google
Assistant so Poweramp if you don't know what that is it is on Android auto it's
an application that essentially is intended to give you a whole host of
options for playing your music in your car which is obviously the biggest thing
now it's gotten deeper and deeper integration over time and one of the
latest updates is the ability to integrate with your Google Assistant I
talked about this just a few weeks ago that the Google Home Hub is essentially
capable of operating the new Android OS or the replacement for Android OS that's
called Fuchsia right now and it's expected to take a year to two years but
what's interesting is these there were some tests done on a pixel three a pixel
three Excel and the ability for that phone to run the new fuchsia OS so it is
also capable of running that OS as it stands today and apparently it is very
what it's operating very well so very interesting to see that Google's new
devices are getting the capability to operate this new operating system or run
this new operating system very impressive stuff from Google for forward
thinking and I really like to hear this and that's why I tell you guys about
this kind of thing all right well there you have it guys
that's all the latest from Google and their Google Assistant and obviously the
Google Home suite of products pretty exciting start to 2019 actually when you
consider all of the new integrations capabilities features that are coming so
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