Google Domicile smart speakers, which are powered past Google Banana, the search engine'southward artificial intelligence technology, tin can exist used to perform various tasks through vocalization commands.

"You can control over 50,000 smart home devices including TVs, remote controls, lights, appliances, plugs, thermostats and more," using your speaker, co-ordinate to Google.

Hither we look at some features of Google Home that users might not know nearly.

Call yous by a different name

Past default, your Google Abode device will call yous past your "nickname," which is the kickoff proper name associated with your Google Account. "Nonetheless, you can set a different nickname and teach Google Assistant the correct pronunciation," Google says.

This tin be set up upward by opening the nickname tab within the Assistant settings of the Google Domicile app. Choose the "tape your ain" choice to record the name you want the device to learn. Hit "play" to check the pronunciation and record it again to correct information technology.

Users can also type out the name by which they want to be called past choosing the "spell it out" choice and then hit play to hear the pronunciation.

Turn off your morning alarm

English language speaking users can stop an warning from ringing by simply maxim "End" without saying "Hey Google" first. Users can as well physically stop the alarm by tapping the top of the Google Home speaker. The same applies for shutting off a timer.

Make your coffee

Users can activate their smart coffeemaker with their voice by connecting information technology to the Google Home device via the Google Home app.

Open your curtains

Connect your smart mantle device with Google Home via the app to exist able to open or close curtains using voice commands.

"Blinds can be opened and closed, and various types of blinds are supported such as venetian (opens in one direction), panel or vertical (may open either left or right), and meridian-downwards bottom-up (may open either up or down). Some blinds may have slats that tin can be rotated," Google notes.

Draw you a bath

Google Home can be used to activate your smart bathtub. "Bathtubs can be filled and drained, possibly to particular levels if the bathtub supports it," Google says. Users will first need to link their smart bathtubs with Google Habitation via the app.

Clean your firm

Once linked to the Google Home device via the app, you can use voice commands to activate your smart vacuum to clean the house, including specific areas, depending on the functions your vacuum supports.

Google says: "Vacuums may have functions such as starting, stopping, and pausing cleaning, docking, checking the current cleaning bicycle, locating the vacuum, or adjusting various modes. Some vacuums may support cleaning specific zones in the home."

Multi-job

Users can get Google Home to do answer two questions at once by combining whatsoever two voice queries that it supports. Users only need to say "and" between the 2 queries. For example, users could say: "Hey Google, what time is it and what is the conditions?"

This feature is only available in the U.Due south. when the Google Assistant language is set to U.S. English, Google advises.

Feed your pet

Users can actuate smart pet food dispensers using their voice once the feeders are connected to Google Home via the app. "Interactions with pet feeders may include dispensing pet food or h2o in diverse quantities and presets," Google says.

Block explicit songs

Using the Filters role on the Google Home app, users can block access to music with explicit lyrics. "No Filter is 100 pct accurate. But if you select to block explicit music, information technology should help avoid virtually mature language and themes," Google said.

...and calls

The Filters office can exist used to cake vocalization calls on your Google Home device.

...and answers

Users tin can choose whether to restrict or allow the power to inquire the speaker questions or perform searches. "If restricted, answers will merely allow basic responses for things similar time, weather and calculator. Notwithstanding, many answers to questions will exist blocked for the people you've chosen," Google explains.

...and actions

Users tin either allow all actions or only let "family-friendly actions" to exist performed by their Google Home speaker.

"If restricted, third party actions will be blocked for the people you've chosen. But they'll still be able to access actions for families (a smaller fix of deportment fabricated by Google and other developers)," Google says.

You lot tin choose whether the filter (such every bit blocking songs, calls, answers or actions) should apply to all users, guests or sure users.

Help you do a digital detox

Users can admission the Downtime role in the Google Home app to "take a break" from the smart speakers.

"When your speakers and displays are in Downtime, they will not answer to nearly commands or questions. During Downtime, you volition not receive notifications from your speakers and displays. Alarms and timers will notwithstanding work," Google says.

Downtime and Filter form Google's Digital Wellness feature, a ready of tools that you tin use to "place limits on when and how your Google Dwelling house speakers are used."

Only the person who set up the Google Domicile speaker tin can set upwardly and manage the Digital Wellbeing feature, which is only available in the U.S., U.K., Australia and Canada.

Play sound on a specific device

Google Home can play music on a specific device past name. For example, users tin say "Play [insert artist name] using Spotify on bedroom speakers" or "Play Rise by Katy Perry video on bedroom TV"

...or videos by category

Users can utilize Google Home to play a certain group of videos on a specific device. For example, users can say "Play yoga videos on TV" or "Play Casey Neistat videos on living room TV" or "Play John Oliver videos on TV."

Pause a specific device

Users can say "Pause on living room Tv" or another device if they're occupied in another room.

To either play or pause a specific device, users need to link their devices to Google Home speaker via the Google Habitation app.

Turn on subtitles

Users can get Google Home to switch subtitles on while watching tv past saying "Plow on subtitles" or "Captions on" or turn them off. Google Habitation can also brandish subtitles in another language, for example when users say "Plow on French subtitles."

"Supported languages depend on the content service (instance: YouTube or Netflix) and the video title," Google says.

Dim the lightning

Users tin get Google Home to switch their smart lights on or off in any room. It can also dim or burnish the lighting to a specific percentage.

...or modify the color

You lot could also alter the color of the lighting using their vocalism. To control whatever lite settings, users would need to connect their lighting devices to Google Home via the app.

Adjust the temperature

Users can change the temperature in their home by maxim phrases similar "make it warmer" or "lower the temp" to their Google Dwelling device. The smart thermostat must be connected to Google Dwelling via the app.

The thermostat can exist switched past a specific corporeality past proverb commands similar "raise temp 2 degrees" or "set up the temperature to 72."

Users can cull their preferred conditions unit (Celsius or Fahrenheit) via the Google Dwelling app.

Activate plugs and switches

Once they accept been connected to Google Dwelling house via the app, users can tell Google Home to turn on or off specific smart plugs or switches around their home.

Create your shopping listing

Users tin tell Google Domicile to add items to a virtual shopping list, which can be viewed via the Google Domicile app. Users can likewise hear a list of their items by saying "What's on my shopping list?"

Track flight prices

For instance, users can say "How much are flights to New York Urban center in three weeks?" Users will go notifications in their e-mail once they offset tracking a flight. "You can only rail flight prices for a general location or date, not a specific flying or airline," Google says.

Estimate your commute

Users can get an estimation of how long information technology will take to go to a sure destination by saying "How long is my commute?" The device will so provide an estimated time to drive to work from your domicile address besides as traffic conditions for the fastest road.

Users can likewise ask their Google Domicile device to estimate the commute between specific locations. For example, they tin can ask "How long will information technology have to get from work to San Francisco International Airport?"

Find activities to do by location

Users can inquire Google Home to propose what to do in a given location by maxim "Things to do in [insert city or other location]."

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A Google Home Mini smart speaker with lights illuminated seen in a dwelling in San Ramon, California on March 26, 2019. Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images