Hello everyone.
Thanks for tuning in again.
Now the Google Home is an incredible device.
It has hundreds and, maybe even thousands of features, when you consider all of the
devices that now can connect to it.
But Google Home with all those features has a few new features that sometimes people overlook,
so I wanted to go through 5 or 6 of those today.
Take you through them, and you're going to know some of them, but you're going to probably
learn something so let's get going.
The first feature I want to talk to you about is actually called Night Mode.
You can go into your device settings for any specific Google Home and you will find Night
Mode within there.
Now you can change what timelines it works between.
So, you can change from 10 to 10:15 or whatever you want to do.
You can go to whatever time in the morning you'd like.
You can also set this by day simply by tapping on the days of the week.
You can choose to turn on a Do Not Disturb Mode.
Keep in mind your alarms and timers will still be heard.
And then you can also change the brightness and the maximum volume of your Google Home.
Let's see a Demo.
The second feature I'm going to talk to you about, I'm going to call it confirmation sounds.
Again in the device settings for your Google Home, you can actually see the ability to
turn on both a start and end of request confirmation sound.
Now the reason I like this feature is because when I'm in a loud room, or I'm far away from
my Google Home, I'd like to know that it actually heard me and that it's actually going to respond.
So these are nice, especially at the start of a request.
Let's go ahead and see another demo.
The iOS widget, this is a newer feature from Google Home.
So, you can use it and you just have to make sure when you go into your widgets page or
your news page that you just hit the edit button and the Google Media Controls, if you
haven't already turned that on, you just have to scroll down, hit the plus sign and then
its added and you can hit done.
From there, what you can do is you can actually control your music or other devices in your
home.
You can see on my screen, a Google Home playing a song, and you can also see a Google Chromecast
with the photo associated with that.
Now another thing that I think is just alot of fun, is if you have your birthday inputted
into Google Home application or into Calendar, it will actually tell you about that when
you ask it about your day.
So, on your birthday, you can actually ask about your day and you will get this: Google
Home telling me its my birthday.
Google Home singing happy birthday song.
One of the newer features introduced by Google at Google IO 2018 are 6 new voice assistants.
I'm not going to run you through each of them.
You can find them in the Google Home app today.
One last feature, Google Home broadcasts messages is something that I think is underutilized.
This is a capability you'll find on both the Google Home and the Alexa series of products.
"Broadcast a message".
"What's the message?"
"Come to dinner."
"Broadcasting now."
"Come to dinner."
So that's all I wanted to talk about today, just wanted to give you some of those features
that you might not think about or you might not be using.
They're actually very powerful, or some of them are just fun.
In any case, thanks for watching anyone.
We'll see you next time.