hello Automaters! Thanks for tuning in again. I'm going to save you ten minutes
today through a ten minute video because on average people are spending twenty to
twenty-five minutes looking through news at topics they love. Now what we're
obviously talking about today is the Google Home and all Google Assistant and
enabled devices, so let's get into the latest updates, the newest features,
everything that you want to know about these devices. The first thing to talk
about is the newest application coming out from Google their newest Google Home
application that works with all of these devices. Now this is called version 2.8
you can go and if you have an Android device you could download an APK early
and you could go ahead and see what's gone on here
there are basically three new buttons at the top of the Google Home home screen
and those are the camera your thermostat and routine so we're seeing the growth
of those buttons and that should lead us this is my take on it this should lead
us to additional interface changes when it comes to routines because I think
right now routines is just a list and really it's not that helpful or
intuitive for us so I think we're going to see that routines interface change
next but what we're clearly seeing with this is a focus on those other smart
home components there and quick ability to you know manipulate them change them
what have you we're also seeing deeper integration
with nest so whenever you go into those devices there you go into the thermostat
screen you will see the nest icon up in the top right corner right next to your
settings screen one of the features we talked about a few weeks ago here on the
channel was the broadcast feature being capable of you being outside the house
using your Google Assistant on your phone to broadcast to your home and then
having the individual at home respond well if you're in the US the UK you have
those languages as your first language and your devices receive the update and
it's always a rolling date so you know you may not have it
just yet but right now today someone can actually reply to your broadcast and you
will receive that audio and transcription on your phone after you've
sent that broadcast and received that back so let me actually show you how
that works
broadcast hello how are you hello how are you sure what's the message I'm doing
just fine thank you
got it sending now I don't know if you remember
but a long time ago we talked about basically a business relationship
between Google and a company called deep mind and what deep mind has done
actually is they've provided the foundation that Google can go out now
and create accents so you you what you're going to see in the newest Google
Home application that 2.8 that we just talked about is the ability to choose a
couple of accents an Australian or a British accent and this is different
than simply changing the language now what's interesting about this is you
need the accent yourself for the Google Home to be able to understand what
you're saying so you can't change the accent and then not have that same sort
of accent for yourself or Google Home could struggle to understand what you're
saying now that doesn't mean you can try it and I think it's gonna be a lot of
fun to listen to we've seen tons of features coming out
for the Google Home Hub, you know we saw that cookbook capability
come out here but we didn't always always hear about it coming to the smart
displays the other ones coming over from companies like Lenovo well Lenovo has
fought back and they have a number of updates here so the first thing is that
cookbook feature you're going to be able to save recipes to that cookbook you
also have a number of photo actions so you can favorite share and remove photos
we've seen that capability here demoed in the past on your Google Home Hub the
multiple remote control tiles capability dismissible home tiles
you can actually get rid of those the last thing is the heat and cool
thermostat that capability is all dropping to the Lenovo Smart Display
here great away now we've seen the shift over time here with Google News and we
know that that service is really being focused on right now by Google for all
of these devices now what they've gone ahead and said here what they've done is
they've started to prioritize basically news brief so short sound bites really
quick just little pieces for you to understand a topic and they're
prioritizing those over the longer news briefs and now what I'll guarantee you
here is they've paid attention to statistics and basically people's
attention spans let's be honest and people are just basically going away
from the news reports I find myself tuning out after about 30 seconds myself
if it's not switching to something else so that's what Google is prioritizing so
they're naturally if you just ask for the news going to give those small sound
bites priority now I don't know how to say this smart jacket name so I'm just
gonna butcher it and then you guys can make fun of me in the comments that's
just fine but the Jacquard. It's a Levi's smart jacket basically
that has the ability to actually notify you and what they basically have done
here between Google and the Google Assistant and Levi's is they've created
a device that knows if your phone has moved away from your jacket so if you're
leaving your phone somewhere or you know, you've walked away and
you've forgotten your phone, it's going to notify you not only on the phone and
buzz at you but on the jacket you're actually going to see a notification now
we talked a little earlier about the integration of the nest getting kind of
deeper integration in the Google Home application and we've seen that coming
for a while ever since Nest's previous CEO was removed there basically
and that was a stated reason they wanted to have deeper Nest integration but what
we haven't talked about here is the problems nest is having right now with
their online servers their service so the nest service has actually gone down
three times in the past month. Now they've
managed to keep it going here for about a week but obviously that kind of level
of service is not enough. No word on quite what's what's up what's
happening with the nest service but that's what's been going on lately now
the last thing to talk about here in terms of brand-new news and features
well the Chromecast for those of you who care it is being sold on Amazon finally
again they finally stock the Chromecast again after years of battle with Google
on that note so that's all we have here in terms of news but in terms of the
channel there's a lot going on that I want to make sure you know about now
clearly you're looking at a different shirt here that I'm wearing we're
selling these through teespring which is something basically that Google has
partnered with and Teespring has allowed us to put up our logos and sell you guys
our products now what I'll actually tell you about this shirt is it's a pretty
good quality it's a Hanes shirt. I was surprised again you know I got a
mug I got some stickers I got some other things, I got the the case here for my phone and
you know I've been surprised each time with how good the quality prints are. So
I think in the future we're going to use the service more and we're gonna upload
other designs and give you guys some different things than just the company
logo here but ultimately if you want to support the channel here's another way
the link is down below to our Teespring store the other thing I want to
remind you guys about if you haven't already make sure you you enter into our
contest we have the Soma Smart home blinds that are being given away I mean
that's a $230 USD+ package that we're giving away as first prize and there's
also one of these Aqua Google Home Minis and an Amazon Echo Dot third generation,
the sandstone version there. So those are a couple things going on on the channel.
What you're also seeing are these massive, massive setup, complete setup
videos that I've been creating, and they are taking a lot of time, so you know
what guys, these are long videos please go share them with your friends, with
your family as they get those new products on Christmas morning,
you're going to want them to have a reference and they're intended to be a
really good reference, so I hope they're working for a lot of people, and I also
hope these news updates will continue to work in 2019 as we go. So thanks for
watching everyone and we'll see you next time!