Hello everyone. Thanks for tuning in again. We're ready to get started with
the latest updates for your Google Home or your Google Assistant. So let's get
going. You're going to get everything new this week. First thing up on the docket
this week is actually a device that hasn't launched yet. It is soon to come,
we're hearing reports that the Google Pixel 3 is coming out soon. Now that's
obviously a smart phone, so why are we talking about that in relation to Google
Home or the Google Assistant? Well the first thing that's been leaked is
actually a Smart Display stand similar to what we're seeing with the smart
displays, intended for the Google Pixel 3. So I think what we're about to see is
the Google Pixel 3 turn into a Google Smart Display whenever you put it in this
stand, similar to an Amazon Echo Show and the Smart Displays coming out from
Google and their partners. Speaking of those Google Smart Displays, the first one is
is finally out on the market. You can pre-order a Lenovo Smart Dsplay tablet
with the Google Assistant on board. You can pre-order the 8 or the 10 inch and
the delivery time is about 3-4 weeks. Now what I'll say about them is
they look great to me. It's a bit of a retro look in my opinion. The speaker is
on the side of the display itself and you can kind of see that throwback look.
So those are out there there are $200 for the 8 inch or $250, those are
US prices for the 10 inch. You have to be in the US to order one today. For
the first time in a while I think you're going to hear a little bit of
frustration with me in relation to your Google Home. Now Google has gone out and
released Scheduled Routines, and so this feature is available in the
US if you already have routines. Now the frustration piece is nobody else in the
world right now has routines. There's been little spots, little pockets of
people who've managed to get these on their devices, but I've done
everything I can and I still don't have the basic routines feature, so a little bit
frustrating for me and I'm sure for the rest of you around the world outside of
the US, but if you're in the USA, you can now schedule your routines to trigger.
This is very similar to things like Samsung SmartThings
and of course the Amazon Echo series. So there you go if you're in the US,
you're good to go. This is a bit of a nuance change from Google on the Google
Home. If you're asking it to turn off all the lights and you just say turn off the
lights then Google will actually recognize what room it's in and compare
that to the room, the devices that are in the room, or the other lights in the
room, and just turn those off. In the past had you asked Google to turn off the
lights, you would have turned them all off in your entire home. So now there's a
bit of a change in how you execute that or the words you use to execute that. As
we've seen in the past, Google has gone ahead and added more languages. Tthey're
still focusing on that international component of their Google Assistant and
the Google Home device, but what's been announced this week is actually full
support for the Dutch language, and we're seeing the introduction of the Russian
language. At this point not yet a full support situation for Russian but there
we go, they're moving in that direction. This is something I mentioned in our
last week's home automation video, our new smart home products video. Philips Hue has
put out a huge series of bathroom products they're called the Adore series.
And the Adore series already has through Philips hue and the Hue
application, connection to your Google aAssistant and your Google Home device. So
the Adore series includes a mirror and with LED lights on it, so that's a smart mirror
that you can go ahead and use. There's also spotlights and other lights that
you can use in your bathroom. So that series immediately has functionality
with the Google Assistant and your Google Home. For those
you that make Google Duo phone calls, you can now do that through your Google
Assistant, and so you can trigger the functionality on your phone using the
Google Assistant, and it will move over to Google Duo and phone your friends.
We're seeing that creation of a little bit of a community through the Google
Duo service and we don't know how long that'll go for, but ultimately we can see
that creation of a community and the ability to make video phone calls coming
together. A few business-related items here. The first is if you didn't notice
the Nest CEO had actually stepped down, and so what's happening today is Nest is
being fully integrated into Google's hardware team, and the Google Home team. I
think what we're going to see is even better, further, and deeper integration
between Google Home and the Nest line of products. We've already seen some and it
is pretty good integration, but I think with those teams working together
directly, we're going to see that next level of integration. The last thing I'm going
to talk to you about this week is related to some tests that are done
every so often by a number of companies that test the accuracy of all the voice
assistants. Now Google Assistant has managed to maintain their lead and
continue to get better and better in terms of how they answer queries that
are coming from customers or clients. The Google Assistant has maintained its
lead at about 85% correctly answering the queries, and there were, in this
test, there were 800 different questions asked of all of the voice assistants.
The Google Assistant understood 100% of the queries, but could
only answer 85% of the queries correctly. Alright everyone. That's what I have this
week to speak to you about the Google Home and the Google Assistant.
I want to remind you there is a giveaway on the channel for both a Google Home, a
full-size standard Google Home, as well as a charcoal Google Home Mini, so I'm going
to leave the link down below to Gleam.io, where you can go ahead and enter into
that giveaway. Thanks again everyone for watching. We'll see you next time.