Hello everyone. Thanks for tuning in again. If you have a Google Home, then
I'll almost guarantee that you've been looking forward to Continued
Conversations by Google. Now this feature has been rolled out and I'm going to show
you today how to use Continuous Conversations on your Google Home, how to get Continued Conversations enabled, and of course I'm going to
show you a few of the quirks about it that you might not know right out of the
box. So let's get going. Google's continued conversations feature is
relatively easy to get set up. I'm going to show you on an iPhone here. In the Google
Home application, you just need to head to the menu, and then more settings. Once
inside there, you're going to see your Preferences menu option, and then you're
going to head into Continued Conversation. In this section of the Google Home app you can
see which devices you own where this is available, or going to be available.
Continued Conversations only works on English US devices, so you have to set
your language to that, and then they will show up here. Once they have the
right firmware on board, I had to have 1.32
at least or better in order to get this working. So you just need to take this
slider at the top to the righ,t and then you've enabled Continued Conversation on
your device. That's it. Once I head out of my preferences, I can slide down
to the devices, here's where your assistant language is. I went into my
basement home device, and you can see I have English United States selected. Even
though I'm in Canada, this is still working for me. I just have to have that
language selected. So let me show you a demo, and then I'll show you some of the
nuances about this with the Google Home. "What's the weather like?" "Currently in New
York City it's 81 and partly cloudy. Today it will be partly cloudy with a
forecasted high of 82 and a low of 62." "And what about tomorrow?" "In New York City
tomorrow it'll be mostly sunny with a high
of 77 and a low of 64." "Is there rain in the forecast?" "No it won't rain tomorrow in
New York City." "Thanks Google." "No problem." Now here just on the Google Home support
page, again Continued Conversation is available only when your Google Assistant
language is set to English United States. You're going to wake your device with the normal wake
words that you use. The only difference is once Google Home has completed
answering your question or your query, it's going to listen for about eight
seconds, or up to eight seconds for any follow-up questions. What I've noticed
using the device is it's much less than eight seconds unless your room is quite
noisy. How do you end this? Otherwise it will continue to listen for
eight seconds and continue the conversation. So you can end it by saying
"thank you", "thanks Google", or "I'm done". Any of those will stop the device which you
saw me use in the demo. There are a few things you can't use with continued
conversation. Basically they call it an active session, so during a phone call,
during alarms or timers, when they're actually going off, when it's ringing, or
when you're listening to music or video on your Google Home. One thing to note is
the only visual notification you get is that the lights on the top of the Google
Home will stay on when the device is listening. This doesn't change anything
from before, it's just that you will notice that those lights remain on
for much longer now. One last thing to tell you about, this is pretty
interesting, one person can ask a question, and then a second person can
ask the follow-up question. So you can basically have a multi person
conversation with Google Home. The only thing is you'll need to be wary of is when
asking for personal information. Once you have your voice assistant trained to
your voice, if person one asks about like a calendar event and
then person two within that same query with continued conversation enabled asks
about their calendar, that's not going to work. You're going to need to basically
stop the session, and then let that second person go ahead and ask their
question.