- Hey YouTube I'm Tristan from Smart Home Point.
One of the features I quite like
on the Google Home and the Google Nest range
of smart speakers is the ability to get news updates.
It's quite easy, you just ask for news update
and then Google will run through a list of news providers
and give you updates from each of those.
It's really good news however,
the problem with it is, it takes a long time by default.
There's quite a lot of news providers
and they sat there for quite a long time
getting the news from all these different news providers.
- [Announcer] Here's the latest news,
the headlines from BBC News at 7:03 PM today.
(upbeat music)
- [Male] Hello, you're listening to BBC News,
one of the. (tape fast forwarding)
- Is it done yet?
(yawning)
(tape fast forwarding)
(snoring)
(tape fast forwarding)
(upbeat music)
- [Announcer] That's all for now.
- Okay, so even though it takes quite a long time
and it can be quite boring
if you actually sit there listening
to all the news providers,
thankfully Google make it quite easy
to actually configure the news providers
more to your liking.
And as a result, it'll give you more tailored news
and also speed up the news updates.
Let's take a look at how you do this now.
Okay, so in terms of fixing that really long news update
what you might notice is sometimes
when you ask your Google Home or Nest home device
for the news update,
you might get a notification saying,
get news just for you.
And on there even click to actually customize
exactly what new sources you've got,
as you can see here.
But let's say for whatever reason
you don't actually have that,
is launch our Google Home app.
Okay, with the app launched, it's not actually intuitive
how you're actually changing new source,
you might think you go to settings
and then you won't actually see any option for it,
unlike the Amazon Smart Home app
where it's really easy under there,
we've actually got do instead, is at the top
you go click your name, read all profile image,
and then you got to assistant settings
'cause after all, you're actually changing the new source
not just a new Google Home devices,
but actually your phone as well.
If you said, give me the news on your phone,
it would actually, you know what you're about to do here
will change it there as well.
Okay, so you've gone there,
it's really old picture of me
I think I was like 20 at the time I got changed that.
Anyway, you've known, let's go down,
keep me on time, just went to all settings,
keep going down, fairly big list
not the most intuitive, but there you have it, news.
And then, you get taken to the same screen
as the push notification clicking through there.
So in terms of this screen, it says your assistant
will play the news from these sources
when you save, listen to the news or add news to routine.
Brilliant!
So you can see all the different news sources there.
And firstly, you can change the order,
you can also delete news providers
and you can also add a new, new source as well.
That's what I'm gonna do,
I'm just gonna start by deleting some of them.
So I'll get rid of them
Get rid of Bloomber, DW News Brief
and I'll click on add new sources as well.
And as you can see, there's quite a lot here.
So you've got there,
there's a new source for South Asia,
you've got New York Times Briefing.
So that's quite a good one to have
The Economist you know, there's loads here
you can see The Guardians Audio Long Reads
which is a podcast.
Okay yeah, so as you can see
there's actually loads there.
Updates for CNET, if you're into technology
and loads of other sites as well.
So you choose what you want.
I'm gonna say Instagram stories
not to lie it interests me.
Let's do that.
And then once you've chosen all you want to do
you scroll and you just click this arrow at the top.
Let's click that,
okay, so now I've got headlines from BBC News,
CNBC Tech Check and Instagram stories,
which is going to be amazing I'm sure.
So let me click on change order.
Let's say I want Instagram stories first
'cause I wanna start my day being inspired by Instagram.
Then I want to Tech Check and then I'll have my headlines.
So up there, that's nothing.
So again, you click on the back button
and you can see your reorder new stories there.
So again, we'll click the back button
and this order saved there under your news.
Now I'll switch back to my Google device
and let's take a look at how this works now.
- [Announcer 1] News update.
- [Announcer] Here's the latest news,
the Instagram stories at 5:00 AM yesterday.
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That's all for now.
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