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Once you're all setup with Google Duo, making a video call using the Nest Hub or Nest Hub Max is very simple. As mentioned above, to make a video call using the Nest Hub and Nest Hub Max, you'll need to have set up Google Duo, Google Meet or linked your Zoom account. When you’re on a call, the person you're in a call with will hear you say "Hey Google," then the call will be muted while you complete your request.
Google even recently improved this ability to call your home smart display by adding a new “Call Home” button to the Google Home app. With this, the smart display has begun to take the place of the landline home phone of decades past, being able to call your whole family rather than one specific person’s cell phone. Remember that for calling contacts, you will need to have setup Personal Results and given access to your contacts. For calling a Google-listed business, you can just search for them and say "Hey Google, call them". For all other devices, you can make outgoing calls, but you cannot receive incoming calls.
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It looks like Google is prepared to port a lot of the features of the Google Home Hub over to other smart displays as well, including third-party manufactured products. To make things even weirder, it appears that the device won’t support audio-only calls, meaning that two different Home Hub owners can’t even call each other using those very same Home Hub devices. One owner would have to call his or her recipient using a phone, tablet or a smart display that does have a camera and supports Duo calls. The snazzy new Google Home Hubdoesn’t have a camera on it, ostensibly for privacy reasons but also possibly to downgrade the cost.
To keep this from happening, you’ll want to link your phone number to Google Home—it’s super easy for Project Fi or Google Voice customers, but you can also link a non-Fi/Voice number too. When the phone system gives you the prompt for the option you want, such as "Press 2," say "Hey Google, press 2." With a Nest Hub or Nest Hub Max display, you can also use the dial pad on your screen. You may access the Contact data from your devices by scrolling over to the People and sharing page and tapping there. To access your account, locate the account icon in the bottom-right corner of the app and tap it. Yes, you can use the Google Home app to immediately contact a nearby emergency call center, even if you’re away from Home.
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Taylor Martin has covered technology online for over six years. He has reviewed smartphones for Pocketnow and Android Authority and loves building stuff on his YouTube channel, MOD. He has a dangerous obsession with coffee and is afraid of free time. Given everything that you can do with your Google Home and/or Google Nest Hub, it’s easy to forget some of the simple tasks it can handle.
In addition to Nest Hub Max, Duo group video calling is available onLG XBOOM AI ThinQ WK9 Smart Display,JBL Link ViewandLenovo’s 8 inch and 10 inch Smart Displays. One of the most popular ways people useNest Hub Maxis for video calling. Up until now, that meant one-on-one sessions with friends and family. Rolling out today in the U.S., you can make group video calls with Duo and Google Meet on your Hub Max. With just a simple voice command, Google Assistant can now help connect you with multiple people at once.
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That’s both good and bad at the moment, which I’ll get into next. For most users, their Google Home will be ready to make phone calls without any extra setup. After Alexa gave users the ability to call other Echo owners, Google upped the ante with true phone calls. If you live in the U.S. or Canada, you can use your Google Home to place a call to anyone’s phone. You don’t need to limit yourself to other people who have a Google Home. For Google Duo, you'll only be able to video call a contact that also has Google Duo.
Upgrade your lifestyleDigital Trends helps readers keep tabs on the fast-paced world of tech with all the latest news, fun product reviews, insightful editorials, and one-of-a-kind sneak peeks. Google Home can identify different users in your house by voice, so if you say “OK Google, call dad” it will call your dad without needing to ask which user is making the request. Though even a single slip-up there could get awkward...
How to make video calls and audio calls on Nest devices
Google Assistant and Nest have always made it easy to connect with friends and family—and now, the more the merrier. Calls via Google Home devices is available to people in the U.S., U.K., and Canada. English, U.K. English, Canadian English, or French Canadian for it to work.

You can also add yourself to the household contacts, which allows guests to call you from your speaker or display. With just your voice, you can call millions of businesses in the US and Canada, thanks to built-in Google Search on Google Nest speakers and displays. So, you'll be able to say "Hey Google, call Bob's Pizza" or "Hey Google, call mum". You can also try, “Hey Google, start a meeting” to connect with up to 100 people onGoogle Meetfor fitness classes, book clubs, community gatherings or whatever else you’ve got planned.
If you aren't sure if the person you want to call has Google Duo, you can open the Google Duo app directly on your smartphone and search the list of contacts at the top. Below the contacts with Duo that show under the 'Connect with Duo' section, you'll see a list of the rest of your contacts without Duo under the 'Invite to Duo' section. Google's Nest Hub and Nest Hub Max can be used for voice calls and video calls, but for video calls, you'll need to set up Google Duoor Zoom. Google-supported calling and carrier calling do not support incoming calls. It may take a few minutes for your contacts to sync, particularly if you have many or new contacts. If your contacts aren’t synchronizing, check the settings on your phone to ensure that the option to sync contacts is switched on.
You can tell Google Home to display the phone number you’ve got tied to either Google Voice or Project Fi by going to the Assistant settings in your Google Home smartphone app for Android or iOS. Once that’s done, recipients will see your number show up instead of the terrible “no caller ID” thing. Your options are to use your mobile phone’s service and number, a Google Voice number, Google Fi account, or on supported devices, Google Duo . Depending on your device and your location, you may not have all these options available to you. You can use Google Home — Google's smart speaker with Google Assistant built in — to place phone calls.
Google Home Nest is a small smart speaker powered by Google Assistant that can play music, create calendar entries, set alarms, and get weather and traffic reports, among other things. In the ” General settings section,” choose the “Settings” option. Clearly, Google has a long way to go for Google Home speakers to feel well-integrated with Duo, but the foundation is definitely there for them to build something great. You can call any landline or mobile number in the US or Canada for free.
All the phone numbers in your phone and from Google Contacts should now be available to Google when you make calls from the device. You need to be the actual owner of any phone number you use in Google Home calling, because you will be asked to enter a verification code that's texted to you. Deluge of robocalls we're subjected to these days) some people might consider suspicious and ignore. To remedy that, you can configure Google Home calls to show your personal Caller ID number. You can tell your Google Home to call a Google contact, or to dial a number that you speak out loud.
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We’re also rolling out beta support for G Suite accounts, so you can host work meetings on your personal Nest Hub Max. G Suite admins who would like to apply on behalf of their domains to join the beta program can sign up atg.co/gsuiteassistantbeta. Next, you need to choose which calling service you’ll use your speaker. The complete instructions are long and a little confusing, and I’ve tried to simplify them here. Follow these steps to make hands-free phone calls on Google Home.
Finally, enter your phone number and tap "Verify" at the top right of the page. You can also tell Google Home to redial the most recent call with "OK Google, redial." Twitter icon A stylized bird with an open mouth, tweeting. “Ok Google, redial.” This command will redial the last number you called. “Ok Google, call Cameron.”This will place a call to the person in your Contacts that matches the name you say.