Hello everyone. Thanks for tuning in again. We're back with another Google
Home new updates and new features video for you. We're also going to
talk about the Google Assistant and all the new updates and features for that
as well. So let's get started!
Now before we go to far, what I am going to tell you is at the end of this video
there's going to be another giveaway; another set of details for a giveaway.
I'm actually going to give away two different products here on the channel,
so stick around for that. The first thing I want to talk to you about this week is
the Google Assistant. It's getting a major update if you have an iOS or an Android
device with that application on it, you're going to see a very new look to
that application. You're going to see what's called the material theme design
show up that Google has been working on for a while and adding into all their
applications. What this means to you personally is that you're going to be
able to get your calendar right on the front page as soon as you go into the
application. It's going to be there. You're gonna see all of the weather, all
of that personalized information that you've been looking for, and have to go
search for on the main page of the Google Assistant new design. Now on top
of that, I want to tell you that the Google Home application is due for a
remake as well. It's going to get that new material theme design from Google
that we're seeing go out. What's different about this one versus the
Google Assistant is that that's not ready yet. It's not out there, so you're
going to need to wait a little while. There's not even an APK out there that
you could go and download, put on your Android device, get early access. That's
not available at this point, but what we have seen is a big new Google Assistant
button right on the home page at the bottom. We're seeing the devices page
accessible by a single icon at the bottom of the screen, we're also seeing
the more settings, and we're seeing all the different media options music and
video at the bottom of that application, right on the home page. So it's a new design with
a lot better navigation I think. Now what both of these app updates say to me, and
this is the most interesting part to me, both of these apps need updating before
we're going to see the whole lot of Google Home smart displays drop. So those are
all the devices that LG and Lenovo and all these makers
built. I don't think we're going to see them drop until these
applications are fully updated into a spot where Google can use them as the
homepage on your tablet, or on that smart display. The reason I say that
is you need a home navigation screen and Google wants these products to really
hit the ground running, really take off, and create a new whole
set of products for them to sell. The next thing I want to talk about is the
ability within the Google Assistant application to actually change your
voice, the voice that's used by the Google Assistant, in a different way. It
used to be Voice 1 through Voice 8 and you could pick those basically on your more
settings page. What's happened is you're able to choose them based on a
color, so they've kind of color-coded their voice assistants. You'll have
orange, blue, red, purple, all those different voice assistants now to choose
from. Moving on to a bit of a different thread here, there's been a lot of
updates to the Google Assistant and Google Home applications related to
music. First up if you're in the UK, YouTube Music has been launched for a
while, but you now have access to YouTube Music in your Google Home application in the UK, and
you can choose that service. Now what's happened interestingly enough, is if you
were a Google Play subscriber, it's switched now to YouTube Music. You still
get that service as a subscriber, but it's now switched over, so if you want to
switch back, you've got to go into the app and switch back to Google Play Music
from YouTube music. On top of that, what you're going to find now with any Google
Home or Google Assistant, you're able to control your music entirely, and there
were certain devices that couldn't actually control music on so this is a new
feature for those of you who had some of those, I guess I'll call them, odd devices,
that just had a Google Assistant on board. It can now control music as well.
Now related to all this music information, the Google Home and Google
Assistant can both now rewind and fast-forward on music, and so you can
actually specifically ask your Google home to fast forward by 10
seconds, or 12 seconds, or 15 seconds, and it will do just that. You can do the same
with rewind and so those are some nice controls and I'm really looking forward
to when we see that in the video world. If you're casting to a Chromecast
or one of those LG thinQ TVs, either way I think this is a great addition and
I like the fact that I can rewind and fast-forward. That'll apply to podcasts
as well. Another music thing to talk about if you're a subscriber to the
Deezer Hi-Fi service, now that's about a 20 pound per month subscription
service there. It's a lossless audio service you can
actually access that now on your Google Home. So you can get that lossless music
coming across the Internet. I imagine there's a little bit of a
higher baud rate or bandwidth there that you're going to need, so some people
might run into troubles here. We'll have to see how the service works, but for now
you can go ahead as a subscriber, connect Deezer to Google Home and listen to your
lossless music. Now if you didn't watch my Amazon Prime 2018 video earlier this
week, you didn't notice the Google store sale that's going on and what's on sale
right now are all the Google Home devices. This is for the month of July,
you can also get the Nest Hello doorbell on sale, as well as the Nest thermostat
E. So the Google home Mini is $34 USD, and that's the cheapest I've ever seen it,
and five dollars off an Amazon Echo Dot price. The Google Homes are $30 off if
you buy one and $100 off if you buy two. Google Home Max is $150
off two of those big speakers. The Nest Hello doorbell is $30 off, plus
you get a Google Home Mini, and the Nest Thermostat E, you get a Google Home Mini
as well included. So there you go that's for the whole month of July and that's
actually a little precursor to what I'm going to give away in a moment here. One
last thing to talk about this week, we've seen
the Echo series be able to connect to lots of satellite, TV, or cable
companies here, their DVRs. Google has gone ahead and added one. The
Dish Hopper series, so that's the newer series of DVRs from Dish. Google Home and
your Google Assistant can now control that, so you can go ahead, set your
recordings, go ahead move forward in a show, those kinds of actions with your
Dish Hopper service. Alright guys well there you go. That's all the updates this
week. I know you were probably hoping for something around Google Duplex. There's
nothing quite yet out there, so we're going to have to wait another couple of
weeks. Now it's time for the giveaway here on Automate Your Life. I said there
was going to be two devices, the first device is a full-size Google Home, the
second device is a Google Home Mini, it's the charcoal version. I want to give
those away to a couple of subscribers, so please do head over there right now, look
in the description down below, you'll see the links to Gleam.io, read the terms and
conditions of course, but go ahead, get entered and as I said I want to give
these away to one of my subscribers, or a couple of my subscribers in this case. So
thanks for watching everyone, we'll see you next time.