Google has announced that they are expanding Google Assistant features to nearly all smart devices globally. These features include Voice match support, the ability to adjust hotword sensitivity and the ability to set any smart device as the default when playing music.
Voice match is a cool feature supported by the Google Assistant that enables it recognise and link up to 6 different people in a household. With it enabled and trained, the Google Assistant will personalized results and help, including calendar reminders or traffic to work according to the person requesting the information.
Hotword detection sensitivity was first announced by Google back in April and will finally available globally to all smart home devices. It enables the user to adjust the sensitivity of detection of the “Hey Google” hotword on smart speakers and Smart Displays. With this, the user will be able to increase or decrease the sensitivity based on how quiet or noisy the room will be.
The last feature that Google is rolling out is the ability to select a default speaker to play music in a household with multiple smart devices. The Default music speaker setting can be enabled in the device’s setting menu in the Google Home app.
It is clear that Google is pushing harder on its Google Home ecosystem, like for example in the recent Android 11 Beta, the power button menu now has shortcuts to the smart devices that are part of the Google Home app.