Table of Content
- Alexa calling versus hands-free calls with Google Home
- More on Google Home and Google Nest Hub
- Set up household contacts
- You can now voice call your Google Home speakers w/ Google Duo
- How to change your video doorbell ringtone
- Sync your Google Contacts data
- Make calls with your Nest Hub Max or Nest Mini
- 'How to reset any Google Home device to its factory settings, if it's malfunctioning or you're planning to sell it
Tap Manage Your Account, then scroll to the People and sharing tab. TapContact info from your devices, then turn onSave contacts from your signed-in devices. This will sync your contacts from your other Google devices to your Google Nest smart displays and speakers.
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.
Alexa calling versus hands-free calls with Google Home
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.
It's one of their simplest features that is one of their best though - video and voice calls. Here's how to setup and use the Google Nest Hub and Google Nest Hub Max to make and receive video and voice calls. (Pocket-lint) - Google's Nest Hub and Nest Hub Max smart displays offer a number of great features. They are excellent smart home hubs, very useful for following recipes in the kitchen handsfree and brilliant digital photo frames.
More on Google Home and Google Nest Hub
This is probably because calls are actually made over Wi-Fi and not with your mobile device, so 911 might have trouble pinpointing an accurate location for whoever’s calling. Still, this seems like something Google should work to resolve. Being able to yell out for 911’s help if you can’t make it to a phone seems like a pretty critical use case for a device inside your house that can now do voice calling. Google Home lets you call anyone in your contacts; it doesn’t matter if they also own a Google Home speaker or not. With Alexa calling, you’re always calling someone else’s Echo device or their Alexa smartphone app. That’s the major difference between the two, and definitely swings in Google’s favor.
There is no special setup for hands-free calling with Google Home. It simply uses your phone contacts or nearby businesses based on your location to place calls. With Google-supported calling and carrier calling, the Google Assistant will ask you which number you'd like to call. Voice recognition software allows smart speakers to tailor their replies to the individual who is using the device. Check the functionality of any devices used to make or receive phone calls.
Set up household contacts
The newly released Nest Hub Max even includes a camera, unlike its smaller predecessor, for use with Google Duo, among other things. All calls using Hands-Free Calling are made over Wi-Fi and are separate from your smartphone. There's no way to call someone else's Nest speaker or smart display however. Google's Hands-Free calling feature only supports outgoing calls, and the only way to use the feature is with your Nest speaker or smart display device. All Google Home speakers and displays can be used for voice calling. There are three different ways your Google speakers and displays make voice calls, but it varies by country as to what is available and features differ too.
You may provide everyone in your house rapid access to make phone calls by configuring a group of contacts that can be accessed on the screens and speakers of your Google Nest or Home devices. These contacts will be seen on displays, and everyone who has access to the device, even those who have not activated Voice Match, will be able to use them. Google's smart speakers and displays, like the Google Nest Audio and Mini will allow you to make calls to businesses listed on Google straight out of the box, without you needing to do anything. And if you’re looking to put your personal VIPs on “speed dial,”household contactsare starting to roll out today on Google Assistant-enabled smart speakers and Smart Displays in the U.S.
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.
Make sure the option to save contacts from signed-in devices is selected. In addition, you have the option to say “Hey Google,” “Stop,” “Disconnect,” or “End call.” You will hear an end-call tone if the person you are calling hangs up on you. According to Android Police, the feature is only supposed to be available in the US, but if your phone’s language settings are set to use “English ,” you might still be able to access it. The person on the other end will still hear you say Hey Google, so don't expect to fly totally under the radar with this approach, but you will get some privacy during the actual request. If you're on a video call when you use this feature, the call will be muted but the camera feed will continue. Repeat steps 7 and 8 for each speaker or hub you want to make calls from.
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.
As of now, you can finally place audio calls to your Google Home smart speakers via Google Duo. But who wants to figure out the ins and outs of making and receiving calls on a new device? With Duo calling, Nest speakers and displays can make and receive video or voice calls to anyone who has a Duo account.
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