During Google’s I/O keynote the company announced that a number of great updates are coming to its smart speaker. First will soon be able to give you proactive notifications, like alerting you to traffic delays ahead of upcoming appointments. Google Home will light up to let you know it has an alert for you, so it thankfully won't just start talking without any prompting. Also, you'll soon be able to see visual responses to your Home queries on all of your devices. So, for example, if you ask for directions somewhere, you'll get that routed straight to your phone. Second, Bluetooth connectivity is coming to Google Home. This means you'll be able to play music and other audio from any device, including those running Android and iOS. Google also revealed that Spotify's free tier will be available on Home. What's more, support for SoundCloud and Deezer is on the way too. Last but most certainly not least, users can make hands-free calls on their Google Home as long as they're to anyone in the US or Canada, they'll be absolutely free. The hub recognizes your voice commands and automatically finds the right number from your contacts but differentiates by your vocal tone, so asking to "call mom" won't accidentally call someone else by mistake. Google Home's feature ostensibly makes standard calls to any phone and will use a private number by default, but users can link it to their personal one. It will roll out to Home devices in the US over the next few months. Thoughts ? I’m a Google Home user and i’m extremely excited about these updates. More specifically using my Google Home to make calls.
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