Controlling Your Smart Home With Google Home Will Soon Be Easier
Amazon Echo has the edge when it comes to the skills and software support needed to control the rest of your smart home gadgets, but the competing voice-activated speaker from Google is catching up fast. A recent update to the Google Home support site (discovered by Android Police ) reveals how the gadget is configured to make it easier to control other connected devices and appliances in the home.
What has changed in Google Home?
You can already connect some devices like smart lights, switches, thermostats and security cameras directly through Google Home with a quick voice command. But others require an extra step. For example, controlling a connected oven or washing machine through a smart speaker requires Google’s attention, asking it to tell a secondary service to execute the command, and then remembering the exact trigger words required.
However, with this new update, you will be able to give quick commands in a natural voice thanks to Google’s language recognition skills, which means you no longer need to memorize names and specific phrases. So if you already have any smart devices at home, this should make them easier to use.
So, if before you had to say a certain phrase, for example: “Ok Google, talk to LG Smart to turn on the robot vacuum cleaner”, then in the near future you will simply say: “Okay Google, start the robot vacuum cleaner”, and it Know what to do.
Google has already released the update, and it looks like Samsung is the first company to use it with new voice commands like “Pause the dishwasher” and “How much time is left on my dryer?” It’s unclear when other LG, GE, and others will catch up, but hopefully it won’t take long when Google added this option.