Google is embedding Gemini deeper into Google Home, its automation platform. The company’s Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) will help Google Home users have a more natural and conversational approach to controlling home devices.
How will Gemini help Google Home users?
Google Home rivals Amazon’s Alexa. It is a powerful home assistant platform that can assimilate and control smart home appliances and IoT (Internet of Things) devices.
Google Home does have the ability to accept verbal commands and offer an audible confirmation. However, the voice and tone have always sounded robotic or synthetic.
Google is now infusing Gemini Gen AI into Google Home. This should significantly improve the interaction with the home automation platform. Additionally, users would be able to interact in a much more fluid manner.
Over a decade ago, I studied interaction design and designed a home assistant concept that I still think about. Today, Google announced Gemini integration with Google Home, sharing a similar vision of AI helping us get things done more naturally. https://t.co/73AvNC8iqK pic.twitter.com/Qlggj60t3w
— Carlos Matallín (@matallo) August 6, 2024
Currently, Google Home users have to give precise instructions, filled with keywords and actions. Gemini AI, powered by Google’s Large Language Models (LLMs) should allow a more conversational approach.
Google will reportedly introduce new voices and improve the core services of Google Assistant on devices. The search giant even hinted that a new and improved Assistant is coming soon. It would make it easier for Google Home users to chat naturally. Gemini Ai would also be able to handle follow-up questions with a lot more ease and accuracy.
With Gemini’s help, Google Home would be able to process recorded or live footage. It would be able to read out highlights of the day, and even answer questions. If that’s not exciting enough, Google Home would help create, understand, set up, and execute home automation routines.
Which platforms will get the new Gen AI integration and when?
Google recently introduced two new products to make the Google Home experience even smarter. The Nest Learning Thermostat and a new Google TV Streamer will get the Gemini AI before other smart devices.
One of the biggest leaps in automated home surveillance took place recently when Google Nest cameras gained face-detection capabilities. These security cameras can now go way further than spotting motion or packages.
Google Teases New Nest Future With Exciting Gemini Abilities – Forbes https://t.co/zlldTO7fQ7 pic.twitter.com/RROwnstXI3
— Google Home News (@GoogleHomeNews) April 24, 2024
With Gemini AI, Nest cameras should be able to process video, images, and text. Needless to say, such data would give users deeper insights about the footage.
Google hasn’t indicated when Google Home users will get Gemini AI. However, a limited number of Nest Aware subscribers who are enrolled in Public Preview would be the first. Google has hinted that the limited rollout should begin later this year, with a wider rollout expected early next year.
2024-08-07 15:09:46