start filming...go forth and create. I know you're here for all the latest Google
Home news, updates, and the latest features, so that's exactly what I'm
gonna give you. Let's go.
hello Automators thanks for tuning in again I thought we were gonna be a
little bit light here on news from Google and updates from Google but
actually they're doing some very interesting things and I'm going to give
you my personal insight into how I think some of these updates and features here
will actually take some of the frustration out of automation. A new
product to talk about right off the bat the Nvidia shield TV is getting an
update we don't have a launch date here or anything like that but it will be
compatible with Google Stadia as well as doing all of the regular things that we
would expect out of everybody's favorite streaming device speaking of new
products we're continuing to see the integration of Google and Nest however
it doesn't look like the original Google Home and I'm guessing this will hit the
Google Home Mini as well as a product but we're not going to actually see
those rebranded as Google Nest device so you're going to continue to see this be
named the Google Home now on that note we've been talking about some of the new
speakers going through FCC filings and some other rumblings here with Google
within the latest Google APK there is actually software and code within that
that talks about a speaker ybd now what happens with things like this is this
means testing is going on in the background with Google we saw speaker V
which became the Nest Hub Max but we're seeing this ybd speaker being
integrated more and more and we've also seen those FCC filings so basically get
ready for a number of new speakers and the Nest Hub Max is definitely very
close to launch as I said that get your wallets ready for a 230 dollar u.s. hit
and otherwise stay tuned here I will get to more information in the code that
talks a little bit about what that means to you and what's about to change. As Amazon Prime
day ramps up here we get closer and closer you're going to see more and more
vendors jump on the bandwagon and I do have a post already at our community
boards where you will be able to stay up to date on that we'll be talking about
those deals as we go forward but already we're seeing really good deals come out
I've seen Walmart put the Google Home products on sale so number one the
Google Home today as I looked at it today it was $69 u.s. I've seen the
Google Nest Hub actually come down all the way to 61 dollars u.s. and the
Google Home Max I'm seeing regularly and again on Walmart's website here in the
US at around 250 dollars u.s. I've also seen some other sites put it on sale
that aggressively and you're going to see that continue some new features
coming to your Google Assistant number one so knows one speakers will get the
Google Assistant here in Canada in July it's already released in the US but will
also see it in the UK, Australia, and a few other countries here in that July
timeframe so that is rolling out right away on top of that you'll find you have
on your Google Hhome and Google Assistant direct access or direct control of smart
mops so it used to be that you had to tell your Google Assistant to actually
speak to device X and ask it to to start cleaning now it'll just be the wake word
and start cleaning another new feature is the remember where I parked feature
and so any of your Google Assistant devices you can simply say I parked here
or remember where I park as you leave your car or use your Google Assistant so
I parked here okay I'll remember where you parked by
saving a map of your current location the only role I remember Kristen Bell
being in was Elle in Heroes and by far she was the best character in that show but
for some reason she was on a Disney and a Google commercial talking about this
next feature and some role that she had on a show called Frozen now this new
feature is actually a read-along feature and we've talked about it before but let
me show you actually how this works today start read along with Frozen
Frozen you got it for this to work the microphone will be on as long as you're
reading but you can stop read along any time here comes the music start reading
when you're ready
"the king and queen rushed both girls to the mystical trolls in the mountains"
stop so you heard the sound effect there and this is great stuff but this is how
these devices can be used you can do this with all these other devices over
here I was just showing it on the big screen but you will find The Lion King
Aladdin and Frozen books are now ready to go
there's obviously specific versions of those from Disney that you're going to
want to use but as you speak as you say things in the books you will actually
hear those kinds of sound effects so it's it's listening constantly to this
as it goes on playing that little music in the background a really interactive
experience now what's even better about this and you know as a tired parent as
as the tired parent I am I like the fact that I could stick one of these products
in my child's room and let them read those books and have that interactive
experience on their own and you can manage it all through the family link
app Google Home and Google Duo have been slowly coming closer and closer together
and as of late we actually have an announcement from Google that Google Duo
calls can have up to 8 people on board now I'm going to be working with another
Youtuber and I'll tell you guys when I'm on that Youtubers channel for a Google
Duo 8 person phone call now that's all well and good but what about our Google
Home devices well Google is testing Google Duo calls to Google Home devices
as well as the ability to set call reminders within the Google Duo
application and have your Google Home and Google Assistant devices actually
message you or remind you. Are you Skynet? Are you kidding?
Skynet couldn't get through preliminary interviews for the Google Assistant gig
it flunked out at don't be evil yeah that's probably fair if you're
someone who uses the TripIt service then you will find Google Assistant or
Google Home integration as well as Amazon's voice assistant integration is
available now and you can get all kinds of information on your next trip now
back to that code that we were talking about earlier in the video it looks like
to me that Android TVs are going to come into the Google Home application and
actually give as an interface here to utilize them to cast to them to do
different things with them so this is really positive stuff how do you feel
about Siri I think series awesome I keep trying to shed EULA Group hang with her
a lot and Cortana but we're also busy how do you feel about I like a cool blue
light plus we share an affinity for Star Wars how do you feel about Bixby we
haven't met yet but I hear Bixby is a great listener I'm not sure if they're
calling Bixby dumb there I think they are alarm routines are people using
routines for alarms you know there's been some struggles with it but overall
a lot of people use it music successfully and really like the service
now one of the problems is that you can't actually trigger any real
automation if you're someone who hits the snooze button now what Google has
put into the latest version here or at least is starting to provide the code
for it is basically a alarm routine that gives you a time range to actually place
alarms between so what that means is when you actually turn off an alarm
between a specific time frame then you will trigger automation or a second
routine to go and do whatever else you want so this is essentially allowing you
to utilize a snooze button or spend more time in bed and when you actually get up
and turn off that alarm triggering other things in your home very powerful stuff
no I am sure I'm going to use that new feature as it gets rolled out I'm going
to use it for ways that Google didn't intend me to use it but that's okay
that's what I'll be showing you guys as we go forward on
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