Page 1 Google Assistant can help you Setup guide Control your smart home Set up and conﬁgure your Google Home or Use Google Home as the hub of your connected Google Home Mini home and control lights, heating and more Your My Day brieﬁng...
Page 2 Google Home The Complete Manual The independent handbook for Google Home users Master essential commands & more...
Page 4 Our homes are getting smarter. And who better to help us take advantage of this than the search engine we turn to with all of our queries? The Google Home is a revolutionary product in the same vein as the Amazon Echo and Apple HomePod.
Page 6 Marketforce, 5 Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5HU Distributed by www.marketforce.co.uk Tel: 0203 787 9001 ©2018 Google LLC All rights reserved. Google Home is a trademark of Google LLC Google Home The Complete Manual First Edition © 2018 Future Publishing Limited...
Page 7: Table Of Contents
Talk to Home Set up Calendars Find local businesses Ask questions, issue commands and more Get Google Home to tell you Looking for a restaurant or what you have planned shop? Ask Google Home using just your voice...
Page 8 Get the same music playing Enable Guest Mode Record the location of your concurrently across rooms Allow visiting friends to cast car and get Google to tell you through your Google Home Watch TV Check flights Google Home can become...
Page 9 Google Home devices are available including the original unit (simply ‘Google Home’), a smaller version called the ‘Google Home Mini’ , a larger ‘Google Home Max’ that focuses on excellent audio quality and models featuring screens, called ‘Google Smart Displays’ . Google has designed the range to ﬁt...
Page 10 Google Home Introducing…...
Page 11 Google Home’s activity online at the Google website at any time. The Google Home Mini comes at less than half the price of the full-size Google Home, but still packs a punch! The speaker is incredible for its size, easily outperforming the Echo Dot, but it won’t ﬁll a room in quite the same way as the regular Home.
Page 12 Google Smart Displays respond to commands in the same way as a Google Home device, but also have a screen for watching content and for making video calls. They are still in their infancy, but the ability to build visual content into Google Assistant apps...
Page 13 As well as controlling all and hot water in your home. Not only can your devices from a single remote, Harmony it be controlled from your Google Home actions can be launched using Google Home. device, it learns your usage too.
Page 14 If you lose their voice. This functionality allows the content your phone, you can also use Google Home to track it down! Asking Google to ‘ﬁnd my phone’ returned by the device to be tailored to the user and any reminders to be added to the correct uses Android’s own ﬁnd my phone feature (yes,...
Page 15: Google Home
Home is powered by Google Assistant, when want to speak to is set up in Google Contacts, applications are added they work not only on the then ask Google to give them a call. Easy!
Page 16 Google Home device a regular commute for quick access. the supermarket – so useful! – fun for all kinds of parties and ages. Interacting with the Google Home is natural, as it has support for contextual conversation ﬂows...
Page 17: Not Complicated To Set Up, Especially With
How to... Set up your Google Home Set up your Google Home The Google Home is a powerful device, but its not complicated to set up, especially with our instructions Mute button Stop the Home from listening by tapping the...
Page 18 Google Home. Select your device Once it has found a Google Home it will ask you if you would like to set up this device; press ‘Yes.’ Your smartphone or tablet may disconnect from your Wi-Fi Fig 3 Select the device’s location...
Page 19 Set up your Google Home Select a room The Google Home app will now ask you where in the house you will be placing the device. You can select from the list of rooms provided or create your own. This will come in handy if you plan on adding more devices in the future as your Google Home in the living room will be known as ‘living room speaker’...
Page 20 For you to be able to receive customised traﬃc reports, weather updates, local business information and many other useful services, you will need to set up your address in the Google Home app. Tap on the menu icon, select ‘More settings’ and under the Devices tab select ‘Device address.’...
Page 21 How to... Set up your Google Home The LED Ring explained The top of the Google Home shows the mode that the device is currently in. Here are a few examples: Waiting Microphone Mute This is what you will see the most when using your Google This indicates the Google Home’s microphone has no...
Page 22 Volume The Google Home displays its volumes with up to ten white LED dots. One dot means it is muted while ten means it is at max volume. Your Google Home will emit a range of colourful visual notiﬁcations during...
Page 23: Ask Questions, Issue
The Google Home has two microphones built into the top of the device to listen for voice commands. But the device won’t respond to just any noise, instead it listens for its wake phrase “OK Google” or “Hey Google.” When you ask a question, you are asking the Google Assistant –...
Page 24 Assistant is currently doing such as playing music. the report you can say “Hey Google, stop” and the news will end. If you can’t hear the news say “OK Google, turn it up” or alternatively How long is my...
Page 25: Get A Quick Snapshot Of The
Get a quick snapshot of the latest news, weather and more personal events with the MyDay feature My Day is one of Google Home’s key features – it gives you a complete rundown of your day including weather, traﬃc conditions on your commute, what’s in your calendar and news headlines.
Page 26 Unfortunately you can’t preview My Day for tomorrow, but you sources are available. can ask Google Home for a rundown of your calendar events. And, speaking of calendars, Google Home will only reference your default calendar by itself, which can be a triﬂe annoying if you work for a company with a load of Google Calendars.
Page 27: Get The Google Assistant To
“OK Google, next” or “OK Google, skip”. Best of all, you can edit which news sources are used for your updates, so if you have a favourite news site you should be able to ﬁnd it and get your headlines from there.
Page 28 Get the news How to... OK Google… OK Google, tell me my news Google Assistant will tell you the latest stories from your chosen news sources. Next This will skip the news story currently being read and go on to the next one.
Page 29: Get The Weather
Want to know what the weather will be like throughout the day? Ask Google Assistant Thanks to the Google Assistant you can get the latest local weather forecasts, so you hopefully shouldn’t get caught out in the rain anymore. Find the immediate forecast, ask about a certain day or ask what it will be like for up to the next ten days.
Page 30 Home will also tell you the high and low temperatures as well as What’ s the weather? if there is a chance of rain or snow. You can ask Google Assistant “Hey Google, will I need my umbrella today?” for a quick and...
Page 31: Get Sports News
American football, Canadian football, hockey, cricket and football (soccer). Google has said that over time this list will continue to grow, with more sports and leagues added. You can hear the result of a game by asking for example, “OK Google, what was the score of the Bradford City game?”...
Page 32 “Man U”. If at any point you want to stop hearing results playing? you can ask “OK Google, cancel” and the Assistant will stop. You can also ask when leagues start and Google Assistant will tell you who is...
Page 33 Ask Google Assistant to see what you have planned for your day and add new events in You can link your personal or work calendars to Google Assistant if you use Google’s calendars, and then ask the Assistant to read out your events, or you can add new ones.
Page 34 ﬁnd ‘More settings’ , select it then scroll down to your Google Home device and tap on it. There will be a slider for Google Assistant will read out Personal results; tap on this to enable it. Once that is done you your first three events for the current day.
Page 35 You can use Google Assistant to create reminders that will notify you on your phone or via Google Home at certain times of the day or when you approach locations. Set and receive reminders For you to be able to use Reminders, you must ﬁrst enable Personal...
Page 36 Google Assistant will ask you what you wanted to be reminded of and tells you that you have a reminder. You can ask “OK Google, tell and when. me about my reminder” and your Assistant will tell you what the reminder is for.
Page 37 Google Assistant about how much time is left on a speciﬁc one. For example, if you set an alarm for your dishwasher you can say “OK Google, set a timer for Dishwasher”.
Page 38 Set a timer for ten You can cancel an alarm at any time or ask Google Assistant to minutes snooze one when it has gone oﬀ and you can specify for how long.
Page 39 The ability to create lists wouldn’t be top of everyone’s feature wishlist for Google Home, but it is incredibly useful. That’s because your Google Home is most likely in an accessible part of the home. So when you’re cooking, cleaning, reading or sitting down and you suddenly remember something you need, you can just ask Google Assistant to add that to the shopping list.
Page 40 Create shopping lists How to... OK Google… Create and manage lists To add something to your list say, “OK Google, add to my new Add to my shopping list” and Google Assistant will ask what you want to add shopping list to it.
Page 41 All you need to set up is your work, home and Above: It can’t solve travel problems on your commute, but it can warn you about Google Home device location in the Google Home app. If you want them quicker than local radio can!
Page 42 To set the address of the Google Home device go back to the ‘More [location] settings’ menu in the Google Home app and under ‘Devices’ tap on Google Assistant will tell you how your Google Home and then ‘Device address.’...
Page 43 Need to ﬁnd a local restaurant or want to ﬁnd a nearby shop? Your Google Home can help One of the handiest features of the Google Home is its ability to ﬁnd local businesses and restaurants. Google uses its diverse search engine to ﬁnd the best places near to your device’s location.
Page 44 If you want to ﬁnd the address of a nearby business you can say “OK Google, tell me the address of a nearby printers” for example. If Google Assistant will tell you the you want to check if that place is open before you go out you can the three top-rated places close to your location.
Page 45 The new frontier Now e-commerce has moved to a new frontier – shopping with your voice. In the US, Google Home makes use of the Google Express app which enables you to buy stuﬀ from a variety of Above:...
Page 46 OK Google, ask need to sign up to an account with IFTTT and then set up the Tesco applet as well as the Google Assistant one – Asda to check the you’ll need your login details for both services. Cleverly, if you have price of Brillo pads an existing delivery slot booked with Tesco.com then your Google...
Page 47 Because stocks and shares are data-driven, they’re easy for computers to process and understand what you’re after when you do a Google search. And that’s also the case if you ask Google OK Google, what’ s Home about stock markets, too – it’s quite impressive what Google the FTSE 100 Home is able to pull out of the bag in this instance.
Page 48 ﬁnd our car. OK Google, where have I parked? If you ask Google Home right now where you’ve parked, it will tell you that it doesn’t know, but it will remember if you tell it where you’ve parked.
Page 49 To get started, ensure you’re signed into the correct Google Account for your Google Home. Then make sure your Personal results setting is turned on – in the Google Home app open up the Settings menu, then go to More settings. Then tap on the device in...
Page 50 Getting things exact Information around scheduling is more precise and you can feed Google Home dates such as “I’d like to depart on the 12th of May” or “return one day later,” that kind of thing. You can also speciﬁcally say you only want one-stop ﬂights if that is particularly important:...
Page 51 Anyone in your household can use the Google Home, and using a device with so much personal information saved can be a problem. But what is Google doing with your data and what can you do to make your information safe?
Page 52 Google’s servers forever or until you delete it. Use Voice Match One way you can make your Google Home a little more secure is to set up Voice Match. With this feature on, visitors cannot access your personal information such as payments, photos, services and more.
Page 53 Set up multiple Google users so everyone in the home can talk to Google Assistant OK Google / The Google Home allows up to six diﬀerent accounts to be linked to Hey Google the device. Each person can then access their own media and data.
Page 54 Wi-Fi network. All the guest must do is open their Chromecast-enabled app, tap on the Cast icon to ﬁnd your Google Home and then wait Above: Set up Guest Mode to enable your visitors to play audio through your Google for the devices to connect.
Page 55 Have problems chilling out? Don’t worry, because Google Home is here to help It’s easy to jump to the conclusion that Google Home is just for barking productivity-related commands at. Of course, you can also use it for entertainment and leisure purposes such as casting YouTube videos to another device such as a TV or Chromecast.
Page 56 Give it a go! You can also get a snapshot of the kinds of sounds Google Home can play you in this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.
Page 57 What exactly is Google Cast? The protocol that underpins Chromecast devices Google Cast, now more commonly known as ‘Chromecast built-in’ , is a protocol developed by Google that enables compatible devices (primarily Android and iOS devices or the Chrome web browser) to...
Page 58 A point to note is that after a target is selected, media playback takes place between that cast receiver and the internet using an Chromecast on Android TV embedded, invisible version of the Google Chrome browser. This Dedicated Android TV boxes means if the device that originally initiated the connection (for like the Nvidia Shield provide example a phone) goes oﬄine or is doing something else, playback...
Page 59 Play media with Google Cast Alternative methods An alternative method of using Google Cast is to stream content from the device rather than from an internet source. In this mode, some Android devices are able to cast the contents of their screen and Chrome web browsers can cast the content of a chosen tab.
Page 60 Chromecast devices. you can enable / disable subtitles In 2017 Google announced the ‘CAF Receiver SDK’ , making life much on the currently playing video easier than before for developers who want to create their own cast content using voice commands.
Page 61 Home Google Home provides great media playback, directly on the device and on other Google Cast kit One of the key uses of smart speakers like Google Home is for media playback. As standard, Google Home devices are conﬁgured Above: YouTube restricted content can to use Google Play Music, Google’s own music service.
Page 62 Add new devices The TVs and name. Using Google Play Music, playlists can consist not only of Speakers menu in the Home app is used to add new devices,...
Page 63 How to… Media playback on Google Home TuneIn Radio is one of the leading Google Home / Google Assistant radio applications. Stations can be requested by name, frequency or location when a local station is desired. The commands After conﬁguring your audio sources on Google Home, what commands can you use? As well as requesting playlists or a speciﬁc...
Page 64 This command will tell you how much time is left in the book you To use Google Home to play video content, the Google Home are currently listening to. app needs to be used to link at least one device with a display – an...
Page 65 90 per cent of UK adults each week. And while you might expect listening time to have declined in the face of services like Spotify and Google Play Music, that’s not the case. Indeed, the average amount we listen has remained fairly static at...
Page 66 This could be another Google Home device, such OK Google, pause as a Google Home Mini or it could be a third-party speaker such as the radio the excellent JBL Link 10. It could be an old hi-ﬁ with a Chromecast audio device or it could be a TV with a Chromecast Ultra (or the Google Home’s radio function...
Page 67 Use a secondary speaker with Google Home for superior sound quality Google Home is a decent speaker for a kitchen or bedroom, but it’s not a premium audio device and its low price point shows as much. So it’s handy that a relatively recent update to Google Home’s software now means you can pair it with other, beeﬁer, speakers via...
Page 68 Next, open the Google Home app and tap the Devices icon Fleetwood Mac in the top right. Now select the Google Home you want to pair Google Home will play the up – note that we don’t mean your second Bluetooth speaker but specific song you asked for.
Page 69 Since the launch of the Chromecast Audio, Google has taken adoption of its Google Cast protocol for audio-only use much more seriously. The protocol, which also underpins the audio streaming functionality on Google Home devices, is now supported by a vast range of applications across both Android and iOS and most importantly, can now enable multiroom audio streaming.
Page 70 ‘Set volume to [level] on [device]’ , for example ‘Set volume to 5 individual device. on kitchen’ . In the Google Home app, the group’s card in the device screen includes a volume control. When using multiroom, the experience works best when all the devices are perfectly in sync.
Page 71 Google Home can become the TV remote you always dreamed of Connecting Google Home to a TV is far easier than you may expect. Provided you own a relatively modern TV you can use a Chromecast device that plugs in the back to immediately make it smarter for a small ﬁnancial outlay.
Page 72 OK Google… set it up, which usually involves installing the latest update, and you will now be all set to start enjoying your Google Home setup in a OK Google, play whole new way. Google has honed the process over time to make...
Page 73 ‘More settings’ and then scroll down to ‘Videos and photos’ . Tap it and you will see a couple of options, one of which is ‘Google Photos’ - make sure that the email account listed within it is correct and then tap the slider to turn the facility on.
Page 74 The way that Google has ensured that the data you add over time is utilised in a variety of ways by Google Home is clever, but it is ingenious how simple it is to set up and use. It is almost as if your...
Page 75 We will demonstrate how to set up a new device, which is Above: A huge amount of detailed surprisingly easy, and you will see that Google has done work to information is available for every device you connect to your home...
Page 76 With most digital setups it makes sense to stick to one brand of digital devices. However, Google Home works in a way that allows you to link multiple devices seamlessly. This means you can purchase each device that you consider to be the best and not have to worry about compatibility between diﬀerent brands.
Page 77 Google Home app to let it be discovered. Doing this will enable you to check that the Wi-Fi connects as it should in that location and it should also ensure that Google Home ﬁnds it ﬁrst time.
Page 78 You no longer need to go to the hassle of standing up to change the lighting when you the Google Home app and following the ‘ A dd New Device’ option are relaxing. in the menu. You should, however, spend some time thinking about what you are intending to do with your smart home.
Page 79 IFTTT allows the creation of custom actions to integrate your Google Home with other services The library of actions available for Google Home is extensive, but with a vast range of connected services available on the internet, there are always going to be times where the service you are trying to use doesn’t have an Assistant action available.
Page 80 Speaking a command to your Google Home is an example of this. Actions are the ‘that’ part of IFTTT. They are the output that results from the input of the trigger. As an example, you might choose to send yourself an e-mail / text message reminder to do something.
Page 81 The download is available in the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store free of charge. After installing the app, you will need to create an account. You can do this directly in the app by entering your email address and choosing a password.
Page 82 You can use Google Home’s a new Applet. You will now see the main IFTTT interface where voice recognition functionality you choose ‘this’ and ‘that’ . Click ‘this’ , and select ‘Google Assistant’ , with ingredients to post status messages directly to Facebook.
Page 83 Due to the Google Home being a software- heavy device, many solutions will involve making changes in the Google Home app or with a soft reset by unplugging it from its power source. We’re going to take you through some of the Google Home’s more common problems and...
Page 84 If your device is compatible then you should say “OK Google, sync my devices” and it will sync to any devices it knows. If this doesn’t work, check that the Google Home and the device you are trying to connect it to are both on the same Wi-Fi network.
Page 85 Fix 10 common Google Home problems across all your Google Homes. The ﬁrst thing to do would be to close the Google Home app and reopen it. Check the devices in your house haven’t been moved or the Wi-Fi network hasn’t changed as this could aﬀect it.
Page 86 Assistant on your smartphone to stop it responding. The Assistant has other methods of being activated on smartphones like a dedicated button on the side of the Google Pixel or a long press of the home button on Android devices. I need to factory reset my...
Page 87 Your Google Home can answer your general knowledge questions, fetch you the latest news and can let you control other devices in the house. But it’s not all work and no play, as the Google Assistant does have a sense of humour. We’ve tried all kinds of commands,...
Page 88 Top 50 Google Home easter eggs How to... Let’s party Where do you live? I am your father Entertain me What are you afraid of? Open the pod bay doors Tell me a joke Self-destruct Tea. Earl Grey. Hot Tell me a story...
Page 89 The apps are available to use at any time and don’t need to be downloaded onto the Google Home device. All you need to do to use any of these is say, “OK Google, speak to [app name]” and Google Assistant will open the app. There are a wide variety of apps and they are split into categories so you can easily ﬁnd...
Page 90 All you have to do to go into the app section. give it a go is say “OK Google, play Quiz Time Trivia.” There are other quiz apps made by developers that focus on speciﬁc topics such as television programmes or chemistry.
Page 91 Apps Our pick of the best apps to enhance your Google Home 092 BBC News 094 The Guardian 096 The Economist 098 The Financial Times 100 CNN 102 Lonely Planet 104 Chromecast 106 YouTube 108 Netflix 110 Chromecast Audio 112 Google Play Music...
Page 92 There are hundreds of apps for the Google Home, from news to sports to games for all the family Do more with the Google Home...
Page 93 For many people the BBC represents the pinnacle of unbiased quality news reporting and as such having access to the service is vital for Google Home. You will be able to ask for news summaries from the BBC in Google Home that work extremely well and...
Page 94 BBC Minute service to play. to touch any device at all. There is a sense that Google is aiming to oﬀer the broadest possible news source repository, which is OK Google,...
Page 95 Are you a fan of the Guardian’s content? If so, with Google Home you can listen whenever you want It takes some time to listen to a range of publications in order to understand which ones deserve a place at the top, but this will come and the simple setup process will soon be forgotten as your favourite news publications become a daily or weekly habit.
Page 96 Setting me the news up the news section in the Google Home app is an eﬃcient way to ensure that your favourites take their place in your preferences, but...
Page 97 How it works On Google Home there is no dedicated app as such, but rather a selection of diﬀerent shows that can be either activated manually each time you talk to your device or added as part of your preferred news settings.
Page 98 Your preferences The Economist Asks As long as you use the words ‘The Economist’ your Google Home device will know what show to play, and if you just say those words For a round up of the latest in the...
Page 99 The Financial Times no doubt feels rather specialist and high brow to the majority, but if you take the time to listen to some of the content through Google Home you may be surprised at just how interesting and wide-ranging the topics are. All of the history of the...
Page 100 It feels a little alien at as well. ﬁrst, but over time it will feel like second nature to ask Google Home for your content and to then sit back and listen to it, or even to let OK Google, play FT it play in the background while you are doing something else.
Page 101 Naturally you can change your default news sources in the Google Home app – tap Menu then More settings. And then, under ‘Services’ , tap News. You’ll see a list of news sources that will play when you say, “OK Google, listen to news.”...
Page 102 When you’re listening to a news clip, you can CNN for the latest say “OK Google, stop” to stop the clip – you can do this at any time with Google Home, of course, even if you’re playing music on Donald Trump or listening to Google Assistant read the weather –...
Page 103 To open the Lonely Planet app you can ask “OK Google, can I Right: The Lonely Planet app is a good first port of call when considering a potential talk to Lonely Planet” or “OK Google, I want to talk to Lonely Planet” holiday destination...
Page 104 If you’re already in the app, or similar. You can also ask the Google Assistant to tell you about a Lonely Planet will tell you about a desination without ﬁrst opening the app – “OK Google, ask Lonely ‘destination of the day’...
Page 105 Google’s Chromecast allows playback over HDMI, directly from your mobile or Google Home The Google Chromecast is a line of digital media players from Google that is designed to deliver music and video playback over a Above: When casting content to the HDMI connection to a television.
Page 106 You can also specify a date range, location or – using the power of OK Google, mute Google Photos’ AI – a free format ﬁlter, such as ‘Show me photos of / unmute the dogs’ . When the slideshow is running, you can use ‘next photo’ or Chromecast ‘previous photo’...
Page 107 A whopping billion hours of videos are watched daily. As another Google-owned property, you’d rightly expect Google Assistant to work well with it – here’s how to use YouTube with Google Home. Now, it sounds obvious, but YouTube is a video site – you can’t just listen to audio from YouTube on Google Home;...
Page 108 To cast videos from YouTube to your Chromecast device using Chromecast-compatible device. Google Home, just ask Google Home to play the video of your choice on your chosen device, for example, “OK Google, play OK Google, turn on Adele videos on Chromecast”.
Page 109 Google Assistant We’ve already covered how Google Home works with YouTube, but it stands to reason that Google wants to make Google Home devices – and the Google Assistant for that matter – compatible with as many devices and services as possible.
Page 110 Tap the Link button under Netﬂix. The Google Home app will then ask you if you’re happy for Google to be able to control your Netﬂix OK Google, turn on account. If you are, tap Link account. You’ll then be directed to a [Spanish] subtitles Netﬂix sign-in screen where you log in using your account details.
Page 111 Speakers’ , is speciﬁcally designed for audio playback The Google Chromecast Audio is a specialised product from Google’s line of digital media players that is designed to provide casted stereo-audio playback over a 3.5mm or optical connection to an aux input, in contrast to the HDMI connection used on the rest of the Chromecast product range.
Page 112 When playback is active on the Chromecast Audio, the full range of control commands can be used. ‘Hey Google, pause’ and my book on ‘Hey Google, what’s playing?’ will work just ﬁne. If you want to stop Chromecast casting via Google Home to Chromecast Audio, use the command ‘Hey Google, stop casting’...
Page 113 Google Play Music works perfectly with Google Home to entertain you at any time. When you subscribe to Google Play Music you get access to more than 40 million songs, unlimited radio and the ability to upload up to 50,000 tracks that are in your collection. When you add Google Home to the mix the experience becomes even more fulﬁlling.
Page 114 No matter what song you want to listen to, it is highly likely that it will the major beneﬁts of any subscription service. The ability of Google be available to you. Home to leverage all that is on oﬀer music-wise makes it one of the areas that is enhanced more than any other by your favourite audio- driven personal assistant, because the world’s music just become a...
Page 115 Set Spotify as your music service Open the Google Home app on your phone and to then tap ‘Music’ . Now tap the service you want to use by default and Google Home...
Page 116 Google Home will find it in an can also ask Google Home to repeat a song or even to skip within a instant and start playing it. song. It makes for a setup that allows you full control over playback OK Google, play without needing to touch anything at all.
Page 117 Deezer to use it as a default music service see if it is worth the monthly cost to you. Once you have set up on Google Home Deezer for Google Home you can now start to play with the various Right: The Flow feature is easily the highlight of what is already an impressive phrases that can be used to control the music.
Page 118 Like any music service, Deezer works better when paired with Google Home OK Google, play it and it easily competes in terms of features and quality with rival again oﬀerings, so the combination makes for a positive experience every...
Page 119 You will need to go to the Google Home app and tap ‘More settings’ . Now scroll to the ‘Music’ option and then choose your provider whether it be Spotify, Google or another.
Page 120 No matter what you want This command will default to your to access, ask Google Home and if it does not work you’ll soon ﬁnd chosen music provider so make sure that you say ‘BBC Radio’ in out how to set it up.
Page 121 It does not remind you of things you need to do and it will not activate at any time unless you ask Google Home to open it, which Above:...
Page 122 9895 often forget. It feels slightly strange to not have this data in a visual list, but logically it makes sense because Google Home is a voice- You don’t need to say “OK driven service and so Wonder works perfectly normally within Google”...
Page 123 Apps Can Akinator read your mind? Can Akinator read your mind? The premise of Akinator will feel familiar, but it can really surprise you at times Akinator is a game that is perfectly suited to a voice platform because all you need to do is answer a set of questions by simply saying ‘yes’...
Page 124 It is free to play, easy to understand and suitable for adults and children alike, which makes it one of those Google Home games that ﬁts the platform well thanks to the considered programming.
Page 125 Above: The premise of the game is simple, but some thought is needed to succeed your Google Home device because of the way it is programmed Right: Answer the questions to see how and at no point will it be diﬃcult to understand.
Page 126 It is surprising how much you can remember when you are an integral part of the story! Playing it almost feels like you are having a real conversation with your Google Home device...
Page 127 Mad Libs is a quick game that you can play using Google Home and it is educational as well Mad Libs is a game that is ideally suited to Google Home because it is fun to play, incredibly easy to understand and almost always produces a result that will make you laugh.
Page 128 ﬁt the platform it is running on and with this will come the need to strip away the parts that may entice a Google Home user to try it in the ﬁrst place, but in this instance we have a game that has been balanced to oﬀer a myriad of beneﬁts that only...
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