19 Of The Most Interesting Things You Can Do With Google Home

The home assistant - Google Home is getting massive sale figures, being in millions of households.

Earlier in 2018, Google reported that every second, the company had sold more than one Google Home device since last October. And that is equivalent to 6.8 million Google Home devices were sold during the last holiday season and it seems like the sale revenue of Google Home has been still at a healthy clip.

Google is currently offering four types of Home devices: Google Home Mini, Google Home, Google Home Hub, and Google Home Max and all of them have built-in Google’s AI. Their prices are 50$, $130, $150 and $400 respectively.

And with the vast popularity of the Google Home, it is better for users to know its features, what they can use them for. Some of the features are pretty obvious, like asking how good the weather is, but no all of them are that obvious.

19 of the most interesting features you can utilize your Google Home are as follows:

1. Broadcasting to all your Google Home device in your home simultaneously

If you have several Google Home devices in your house, you can broadcast to every single one at once, similar to an intercom.

For example, if you say that, "OK Google, broadcast that it's dinner time,", each Google Home device will ring a dinner bell. You can also enable the broadcast even when you are not at home.

2. Playing white noise when you are falling asleep

You can ask the device to turn on any sound such as white noise or sounds of rain while you fall asleep. You do that by simply saying, “Hey Google, play the rain sounds”.

The sound will last until you fall asleep, but you can set it to turn off at a certain time by setting a sleep timer.

3. You can use it to remind to work out.

If you are the type of person who would never get up by yourself to do exercise, the device can do the reminding job for you. You can ask it to remind you to get up at certain times every day.

4. Allowing you to have control over your smart home

For now, Google Assistant is able to control over 1,5000 smart-home products from over 100 brands like GE, Whirlpool, Nest, and LG. You can control many things like dimming the lights, changing the temperature, or even starting your Robot Vacuum.

And you can set up a Google Home Hub for every smart home products you own and easily control those devices via Google Home.

5. Finding your lost phone

If you can’t find your phone and believe that it is around your house, you can ask Google Home to do the job by saying, "Hey Google, find my phone" and the device will then ring your mobile phone. The feature can work for both iPhones and Android smartphones.

6. Making hands-free calls.

You can even make hands-free calls to everyone in your Google Contacts. You only need to say, “Hey Google, call …” and it will call that person for you.

The device can recognize many voices so if you share it with some people, it will know who is asking it to make a call.

7. Turning your TV on and off.

If your TVs support the HDMI CEC standard which many recent TV models have and you also have Chromecast plugging in, you can use the device to turn on and off your TVs.

8. Switch it to the Night Mode

This Night mode feature of Google Home can dim its light and also lower the volume so you do not wake other members in your house up. You can turn on this feature on manually or just make a schedule to trigger it at the same time each day.

The Google Home Hub can automatically do this as it can sense when your room has gone dark and adjust its screen.

9. Google Home can speak many languages

The device can speak French, German, Italian, English and also Japanese.

Google Assistant on tablets and phones can even speak more languages, including Portuguese and Spanish. Google also added Indonesia and Dutch.

10. You can also ask Google Home to tell you a story

Google Home is incorporated with many features for families. Some of the features you can tell it to do are as follows:

• "Hey Google, let's play space trivia."
• "OK Google, play musical chairs."
• "Hey Google, let's play a game."
• "Hey Google, tell me a story."
• "OK Google, beatbox for me."

11. It can switch between different languages.

With the recent update, Google Home can proceed voice commands from many languages. It can recognize which language you are speaking and respond in the same language.

For now, this feature is only applying to several languages, including German, Spanish, English, French, Japanese and Italian. Google promised to add more languages in the future.

12. You can set up and trigger daily routines

You can set up a routine for your Google Home that can easily be triggered by the phrase you set.

It can do many things like reading your schedule, reading the news, talking about the weather, turning off your light and many more. You can set a simple phrase to trigger these feature likes: “Hey Google, good day”.

13. It can help you find local businesses, handymen, or plumbers to help you around your house.

You can search handymen around your area by saying “Ok Google, find me a handyman”. Google claims that all of the recommended local business have been checked by Google itself and also companies like Porch and HomeAdvisor.

14. You can ask Google Home to remember something for you.

If you want to remember a bike lock or a locker, you can ask your device to remember those things for you by saying, “Hey Google, remember my locker combo is …”.

15. Telling you some jokes.

If you are not in a good mood would want to listen to some funny jokes, simply saying “Hey Google, tell me a joke” and it will proceed your request.

16. It can help you in the kitchen

The device can even help you with cooking and baking. You can use it to search for recipes and also substitutions.

17. Ask Google Home to remind you to watch a show.

If you are busy and worried that you may forget to watch your favorite shows, Google Home can do it for you. You just need to say, “Hey Google, remind to watch The Big Bang theories every Tuesday at 9 p.m.”

18. Google Home device can even tell you some positive news

If you are tired of getting too many grim news, you can tell Google Home to tell you some good news instead.

You can trigger this feature by saying “Hey Google, tell me something good”. Google is now still experimenting with this feature so it can be just a one-month thing. And for now, only US users can access this feature.

19. Ask Google to turn on your favorite music whenever to wake you up

You can use your Google Home device as an alarm clock that can wake you up with your favorite music. You can set it up by saying “Hey Google, set an alarm for 7 a.m that plays Good Morning Sunshine.”