If we feel alone at home or we need a roommate who answers questions and does not speak if he is not asked, it could be an excellent idea to buy a Google Home device, released in Italy and in Italian, today, which allows you to use the Google assistant without a phone, directly by raising your voice.
The Google assistant of Android, the one who answers the questions and allows you to use your smartphone with voice commands, has been placed inside a wireless speaker box, aesthetically beautiful to see, which is called Google Home (or Nest), in in order to actually assist the people who keep it in the house and to command by voice anything connected to the internet .
In theory, it becomes possible to turn on the lights with your voice, turn up the thermostat, start hearing music and see a movie just by asking our friend Google Home. You can also ask Google how much air tickets cost to get to some city, know the results of the matches, get a recipe to cook or ask for information of any kind on the fly. The Italian version of Google Home, at the moment, is more limited than the English version because it supports fewer applications and does not allow you to make calls or send messages, but it works well for many things it can do.
Google Home is the future, it is the smart device that manages houses in science fiction films, it is the real home automation that can revolutionize everyone's life and it is certainly an interesting and tasty purchase to make, even if at the moment it takes a while keep expectations of artificial intelligence low. Google Home, in fact, is far from perfect at the moment, but since Google is investing a lot of money and a lot of efforts in this sector, it is to be bet that it will be improved over time with always new features.
READ ALSO: Alexa or Google Home "> Google site or in one of the partner stores including Mediaworld.
There are two different Google Home models for the home: the small one called Nest Mini (it is the new name of the second generation of the Google Home Mini) which costs 60 Euros and a Google Home which costs 100 Euros . The difference is in the size of the speaker, with a smaller Nest Mini and a normal Google Home that feels good and can also be used to listen to music with excellent quality in a room.
What can be done with Google Home?
Google Home basically serves three things :
- Home automation : to control connected home devices using voice commands;
- Voice assistant : to ask for information about the news, the weather or anything else that can be searched on Google and to set reminders, appointments and timers.
- Music : to listen to favorite songs and radio.
As for the home devices that can be managed by voice with Google Home there are only a few brands of home automation products in order to control lights and switches of systems such as Philips Hue, TP Link, D Link, Xiaomi, LIFX, Wemo and Google Nest thermostats .
Google Home also works very well as a voice interface to control Chromecast devices. You can then manage the TV viewing ( with Chromecast or Android TV ) of videos from Youtube and movies from Netflix .
If you have one or more Chromecast Audio devices, you can listen to the same music in each connected stereo (there are no cable audio outputs on Google Home devices to connect them to more powerful speakers).
As for the voice assistant function, the information that you can listen to from Google Home there are, in addition to the encyclopedia questions (such as " When was Tom Cruise born? "), Also personalized requests, to remind us, for example, of the date the next trip, time to get to work, today's weather, breaking news and appointments stored in the calendar. You can also set an alarm, start a timer and compile a shopping list or things to remember as a reminder. For example, you can ask Google Home " to turn off the oven in 20 minutes " or to warn us when to go out somewhere based on traffic.
As for the news of the day, you can listen to the reading from newspapers such as Corriere della Sera, La Repubblica, RMC, RTL 102.5, Sky News 24, Sky Sport, TGCOM24.
As for listening to music, however, Google Home (and Nest Mini) connects directly to Spotify, Youtube Music, Google Music and also works to listen to the radio from TuneIn (these are some of the music apps supported at the moment) . Youtube Music is free for Google Home in version with advertising.
Google Home and also the Nest Mini in Italian, therefore, is the best home assistant in Italy together with Amazon Alexa, it works well, it is nice to keep on the mobile both in the Nest mini version, with a reduced speaker only good for the bedroom, which in the normal version, to be placed in the living room or work study. As happens on Android smartphones, the commands are activated by saying aloud " Ok Google ", which makes us seem a little strange the first few times and if we are not alone at home. The recognition of voice commands in Italian works well, home automation is certainly a little limited at the moment, as are few supported applications.
Certainly functions will be added in the coming months and from this point of view it can only improve. Personally I would recommend it very much to those who live and who work alone, while in the family or in an office with other people it can become funny to talk to the assistant and even not very practical. As mentioned above, at the moment it is not possible to phone with Google Home and send messages via Whatsapp or via SMS, which would be very welcome and useful to have.
The Google assistant of Android, the one who answers the questions and allows you to use your smartphone with voice commands, has been placed inside a wireless speaker box, aesthetically beautiful to see, which is called Google Home (or Nest), in in order to actually assist the people who keep it in the house and to command by voice anything connected to the internet .
In theory, it becomes possible to turn on the lights with your voice, turn up the thermostat, start hearing music and see a movie just by asking our friend Google Home. You can also ask Google how much air tickets cost to get to some city, know the results of the matches, get a recipe to cook or ask for information of any kind on the fly. The Italian version of Google Home, at the moment, is more limited than the English version because it supports fewer applications and does not allow you to make calls or send messages, but it works well for many things it can do.
Google Home is the future, it is the smart device that manages houses in science fiction films, it is the real home automation that can revolutionize everyone's life and it is certainly an interesting and tasty purchase to make, even if at the moment it takes a while keep expectations of artificial intelligence low. Google Home, in fact, is far from perfect at the moment, but since Google is investing a lot of money and a lot of efforts in this sector, it is to be bet that it will be improved over time with always new features.
READ ALSO: Alexa or Google Home "> Google site or in one of the partner stores including Mediaworld.
There are two different Google Home models for the home: the small one called Nest Mini (it is the new name of the second generation of the Google Home Mini) which costs 60 Euros and a Google Home which costs 100 Euros . The difference is in the size of the speaker, with a smaller Nest Mini and a normal Google Home that feels good and can also be used to listen to music with excellent quality in a room.
What can be done with Google Home?
Google Home basically serves three things :
- Home automation : to control connected home devices using voice commands;
- Voice assistant : to ask for information about the news, the weather or anything else that can be searched on Google and to set reminders, appointments and timers.
- Music : to listen to favorite songs and radio.
As for the home devices that can be managed by voice with Google Home there are only a few brands of home automation products in order to control lights and switches of systems such as Philips Hue, TP Link, D Link, Xiaomi, LIFX, Wemo and Google Nest thermostats .
Google Home also works very well as a voice interface to control Chromecast devices. You can then manage the TV viewing ( with Chromecast or Android TV ) of videos from Youtube and movies from Netflix .
If you have one or more Chromecast Audio devices, you can listen to the same music in each connected stereo (there are no cable audio outputs on Google Home devices to connect them to more powerful speakers).
As for the voice assistant function, the information that you can listen to from Google Home there are, in addition to the encyclopedia questions (such as " When was Tom Cruise born? "), Also personalized requests, to remind us, for example, of the date the next trip, time to get to work, today's weather, breaking news and appointments stored in the calendar. You can also set an alarm, start a timer and compile a shopping list or things to remember as a reminder. For example, you can ask Google Home " to turn off the oven in 20 minutes " or to warn us when to go out somewhere based on traffic.
As for the news of the day, you can listen to the reading from newspapers such as Corriere della Sera, La Repubblica, RMC, RTL 102.5, Sky News 24, Sky Sport, TGCOM24.
As for listening to music, however, Google Home (and Nest Mini) connects directly to Spotify, Youtube Music, Google Music and also works to listen to the radio from TuneIn (these are some of the music apps supported at the moment) . Youtube Music is free for Google Home in version with advertising.
Google Home and also the Nest Mini in Italian, therefore, is the best home assistant in Italy together with Amazon Alexa, it works well, it is nice to keep on the mobile both in the Nest mini version, with a reduced speaker only good for the bedroom, which in the normal version, to be placed in the living room or work study. As happens on Android smartphones, the commands are activated by saying aloud " Ok Google ", which makes us seem a little strange the first few times and if we are not alone at home. The recognition of voice commands in Italian works well, home automation is certainly a little limited at the moment, as are few supported applications.
Certainly functions will be added in the coming months and from this point of view it can only improve. Personally I would recommend it very much to those who live and who work alone, while in the family or in an office with other people it can become funny to talk to the assistant and even not very practical. As mentioned above, at the moment it is not possible to phone with Google Home and send messages via Whatsapp or via SMS, which would be very welcome and useful to have.
