Google Home Now Supports Multiple Users and Can Recognize Your Voice
One of the biggest limitations of Google Home, the voice-activated Google speaker robot, was that it couldn’t tell anyone apart, so all your queries were focused on one Google account. But thanks to today’s update, it can now recognize up to six people.
This is a pretty big problem for a device that should be the centerpiece of your home. Previously, if you asked him to do something like reading your agenda, he could only link to the calendar for one Google account. This means that your family, friends, partners, dogs and cats will have to use the same calendar if more than one person wants to use the device. Today’s update lets you add up to six people so everyone can talk to Dom and get personalized answers. However, I would not expect perfection; you train him by repeating the phrase “Ok Google” or “Ok Google” several times, but this is inevitable and will likely confuse people’s voices.
Confusing the different voices isn’t all that important because Google is still quite shy about actually doing something to your Google account through the device. Reasonably so; you don’t want anyone within earshot to send emails on your behalf. Having multiple accounts will especially complicate such functions, but hopefully future updates will make the device capable of more.