What's happening YouTube, Josh Teder here for six months later and as always
October is looking to be a very busy month in the world of Google Home and
Google Assistant now last year and during the October event that Google
held in the earlier part of the month we saw the launch of the Google home acts
and Google home many and this October there's a Google event on October 9th
and we're expecting new Google Home hardware to come out of this event as
well but before we get to the rumors on the new hardware we've got some new
great Google Assistant features to go over, so let's get started, this is
6 Months Later
Now before we get into the features updates, a word of warning: not all of the
updates I'm about to talk about may have rolled out to your Google Assistant
depending on where in the world you live I'm currently living here in the United
States and I use the US English version of the Google assistant but if you're in
another part of the world that's not the United States some of these features may
not have rolled out to your assistant if you're using assistant in a different
language or if you just live in a different country so with that let's go
ahead and dive into the first features update which is actually an update to a
feature I talked about on our last features update video which is scheduled
routines. Now with scheduled routines you can have
a routine run during a certain time of day and you don't always have to use
your voice to schedule the routine this feature is great for your bedtime
routine you can now schedule that routine to take place during a certain
time at night or you can create an entirely new scheduled routine say for
Halloween you can have all of your Halloween decorations turn on and a
specific time during the evening to schedule a routine go ahead and open
your Google home app go to more settings
routines now unfortunately it doesn't seem like you can edit pre-existing
routines you already may have and add a schedule to them this only seems to work
for creating new routines you can give your commands and then add in a time or
day for the routine to run the rest of setting up the routine is just how it
worked in our last features update video so if you haven't checked that out
definitely go ahead and check out the features update 5 video for more
information on how to set up a routine now for an update on home control the
google home devices now understand the context of interacting with your smart
devices even more if you tell Google to turn off the lights it will
now understand that you want the lights of the room that you are in to turn off
and not just all the lights in your entire residence in my experience when
you ask the Google assistant to turn off the lights previously it would often
turn off the lights in your entire residence now this isn't an issue if you
live alone but if you live with other people it can be kind of annoying when
the lights in your room suddenly turn off because your roommate over in his
room decided to turn off the lights using Google thankfully this update now
fixes that annoyance now if you still want to turn off all of your lights just
tell Google to turn off all lights next up another update from our last features
update video the bilingual functionality for the Google assistant has now
launched so bilingual families across the globe can now rejoice you can now
ask your Google assistant through your Google Home devices a query in one
language and then ask it another query in a different language as long as both
of those languages are supported by the Google Assistant, Google will be able to
understand your query now you can effortlessly switch between
languages in between your query as long as you still use the same trigger word
Google next up the Google Assistant can now read out a more detailed news report
thanks to its ability to leverage the newly revamped Google News Service if
you haven't checked out Google News yet I highly recommend it it lets you focus
on the news topics that you're interested in from all of your favorite
sources and subscriptions in a beautifully simple design for the
expansion of the news feature with the Google assistant you can now ask Google
to learn more about a specific news topic for example you can ask it what's
the news on President Trump a lively topic no doubt here's the latest from
Fox News Trump's tax returns will be target of Democrats probe if they win
house in midterms the mystery of President Trump's tax returns could
finally come to an end if Democrats win control of at least one chamber of
Congress following the midterm elections in November
Democratic lawmakers in the House are planning to use an obscure
almost 100 year-old tax statute that permits the chairman of Congress's tax
committees to look at anyone's returns to get to the bottom of Trump's finances
and possibly make public the information that the president has kept guarded
since the 2016 election there were two other articles which I've sent to your
phone do you want me to read the first one
yes sure CNN has this update or you can ask it's something completely different
like what's the latest news on black holes this is the latest from forbes
active supermassive black holes may have cost life see merchants bruce normani
contributor i opinions expressed by forbes contributors are their own active
galactic nuclei a GN s powered by supermassive black holes at the Centers
of most young galaxies may have put the quash on life's evolution says one new
study that's all I have for now you can find a link to the full text on
your phone notice that Google will not only give you an update about a specific
topic but it will give you the latest news stories it will offer to send you
the stories to your phone as well as ask if you want to read the stories out loud
which is a pretty impressive feature if you've been bogged down by the day's
news as is often the case here in the United States well Google has a feature
for that as well just ask Google to tell me something good and it'll give you a
positive news story to make you feel better about the world at least for a
minute from Philly com Philadelphia Media Network what started as a small
exchange program between Temple University in a local corrections
facility has become an international model the inside out exchange program
engages University students and gives inmates educational opportunities 30,000
students have participated in the program half of them prisoners is it
okay if I send it to your phone yes okay go ahead and check and I'll talk to you
there the stories are selected it's summarized by the nonpartisan nonprofit
solutions journalism Network according to TechCrunch who describes
the group as an organization that helps train journalists to better cover how
people are responding to problems and how those actions can have positive
results the system will even go a step further
for you if you have a Google assistant smart display it will play relevant
YouTube videos to the news topic you asked about on the smart display now
speaking of smart displays you may be wondering why I haven't personally
bought one or done a review of one on the channel and that's simply because I
decided to hold off on buying a smart display like the Lenovo version because
I had a feeling that Google was going to do their own made by Google smart
display and it looks like that Google will be announcing a smart display made
and designed by Google at their October 9th event coming up and it's rumored to
be called the Google Home Hub the Google hub is rumored to be Google's own rival
to the Amazon Echo's show and will be one more device that aligns to Google's
smart display strategy for its Google assistant accept this smart display is
designed and made by Google now it's rumored to have a 7 inch display but
it's unclear whether or not there will be a larger variant of the new Google
smart display like we have with Lenovo smart display which also comes in a
10-inch variant well after wait-and-see as well on price
and some of the other specs when Google's rumored to announce this device
at their October 9th event now be sure to stay tuned to the channel right after
that event I'll be doing a reaction video a couple of days with my thoughts
on everything that Google announced as well as you can be sure if they do
announce any new Google home hardware I'll have that on the channel as soon as
I can get my hands on it for a first look video and of course later on down
the road a six months later review well that's it for our google home features
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lastly let me know what you thought of the video if you're excited for what
Google is rumored to unveil at their October 9th event and let me know also
if you think I've missed any features that they have recently put out for the
Google home devices well until next time thanks again so much for watching I'm
Josh Teder for 6 Months Later