SPEAKER: Google Assistant Accessibility Videos.
Control your smart home with the Google Assistant.
Requires compatible devices.
PATRICK CLARY: Hello.
My name is Patrick Clary, and I'm
a product manager on the Google Accessibility Engineering Team.
Today, I'd like to show you some features that
use the Assistant to control smart home devices by voice.
Being a wheelchair user, these make it very easy
for me to control different things around my home.
For example, I have a Nest learning thermostat,
which is a smart thermostat connected
to my home Wi-Fi network.
I can control it using the Nest app on my phone
or using the Google Assistant.
For instance, I can say, OK, Google, set
the entryway temperature to 75 degrees.
GOOGLE ASSISTANT: Sure.
Setting the entryway to 75 degrees.
PATRICK CLARY: In some homes, the thermostat
might be installed high on the wall, which
makes getting to it in a wheelchair difficult.
Controlling the thermostat with the Google Assistant
is much easier.
For people within vision impairments
or who are blind, using a thermostat can be especially
difficult. Very few thermostats are accessible for these users.
In this case, using the Google Assistant
provides much-needed accessibility.
Smart lights are another category
of devices that you can control using your Google Assistant.
For example, I can say, OK, Google,
turn on the living room lights.
GOOGLE ASSISTANT: Sure.
Turning three lights on.
PATRICK CLARY: We're using Philips Hue lights
for this demo, but there are a wide range
of lights that the Google Assistant supports.
I also happen to have the Nest Hello video doorbell and a Nest
Aware subscription.
Using the Nest app, I can assign names to faces
and it will recognize people as they approach.
My Google Assistant, on Google Home,
will tell me who's at my door.
GOOGLE ASSISTANT: Kieran is at the door.
PATRICK CLARY: That's my colleague, Kieran.
Since I have a smart door lock, I
can unlock my front door using the Assistant, as well.
OK, Google.
Unlock the front door.
GOOGLE ASSISTANT: Can I have your security code
to unlock the front door?
PATRICK CLARY: 2035.
GOOGLE ASSISTANT: OK.
Unlocking the front door.
PATRICK CLARY: If your TV is Chromecast-enabled,
if someone unknown is that the door,
you can ask the Google Assistant to show the video feed
from your doorbell.
GOOGLE ASSISTANT: Someone's at the front door.
PATRICK CLARY: OK, Google, who's at the door?
GOOGLE ASSISTANT: You got it.
Streaming the front door on living room TV.
PATRICK CLARY: Since the smart home devices
are connected to the Google Assistant via my Google
account, I can control them when I'm away from home
using my phone.
One other useful feature of the Google Assistant is routines.
With routines, I can ask my Google Assistant
perform multiple actions with just a single command.
For example, I can say, OK, Google, good morning,
and have it set the temperature to 72 degrees,
turn on the coffeemaker, turn up the lights, play me the news,
and tell me about the weather.
Routines can be customizable and can even
be set for a fixed time.
Hey, Google, good morning.
GOOGLE ASSISTANT: Hi, Patrick.
It is 10:50 AM.
Right now in Mountain View, it's 57 and sunny.
Today, it'll be sunny with a forecasted high of 70
and low of 43.
Have a wonderful day.
PATRICK CLARY: These are some of the ways
that the Assistant can take away the stress of your daily tasks.
For more ways that the Google Assistant can help you
in your daily life, check out the videos
in the rest of the series linked in the description below.
We love to hear from our users, so if you have any comments
or feedback about the accessibility features
of the Google Assistant, Google Home, or other Google products,
feel free to email us at disability-support@google.com,
tweet us @googleaccess, or for a complete list of accessibility
support options, visit our website at support.google.c
om/accessibility.