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Hate how much your Google Nest speaker talks? This new update will solve your problems
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(Image credit: Google)
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If you have aGoogleNest smart speaker and hate how much it talks to you, this new feature update will be a game changer. Instead of constantly chatting to you and confirming what it’s doing, Google is updating its smart home devices with a clever chime feature.
For amazing audio quality and easy voice controls, the Google Nest line of smart speakers are rated as some of thebest smart speakerson the market today. Both theGoogle Nest Miniand theGoogle Nest Audiodeliver seamless and innovative controls, thanks to the Google ecosystem and Google Assistant voice commands.
For those of you who have been wanting fewer verbal responses from your Google products, Google is finally listening and cutting the chat. In a blog post fromGoogle Nest Community, Google announced that “based on invaluable input from the Google Nest community and feedback from our own internal trials, we’re expanding the use of chimes to acknowledge smart home commands to control devices in the same room.”
This new chime feature has already been in action when adjusting the lights around your house. Rather than letting you know what it’s doing, the Google Nest smart speaker simply chimes as a response, something many users enjoyed and requested for wider use with other commands… and Google has responded accordingly (and quietly, too).
(Image credit: Google)
(Image credit: Google)
To put this into context, Google’s blog gave an example of how the new chime update will work with adjusting the fan in the room you’re in. “After you’ve said, ‘Ok Google, turn on the fan,’ rather than hearing a verbal response like, ‘Ok, turning on fan’ from the speaker / smart display, you’ll instead hear a pleasant chime to confirm that Google is turning on your fan.”
This chime feature is being rolled out for additional Google smart home devices in the next few weeks. Alongside Google Nest’s smart speakers, its outlets, switches, TVs, fans and blinds will also get this new functionality.
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