While the smart speaker can hold its own in many rights, when compared to theorit understandably falls short. The brains of speakers, the virtual assistanthas been learning and developing for more than two years now, while version, Assistant, is still quite new. If Google ever wants to compete squarely with Amazon's smart speaker, google home change wake word will have to add new features. Here are 10 things the Google Home could add that would catch it up. Editors' note: Originally published Nov. Since launch, Google has added,,sleep timer, sending directions to your phone, the ability to and. Google Assistant, the brains behind the Google Home speaker, can provide you with upcoming flight information. But for some reason, you can't get any package tracking information yet. Take notes or voice memos Still a shortcoming of the Alexa speakers is the inability to make notes using dictation or store voice memos. Likewise, you can't create notes or memos with the Google Home either. The functionality is there and it seems like note-taking wouldn't be very difficult for Google to implement. It connects it to devices and services that aren't natively supported, like or the. The you can make with Google Assistant are far more in-depth and customizable than those for the Amazon Alexa channel. However, there are no actions for the Google Home channel, meaning you can only use the speaker for the trigger part of Applets. I could think of at least a dozen reasons why Google Home actions would be useful, such as playing when I get home or telling me when my has fewer than three eggs. But it doesn't make it any more natural to speak. Even if it's not any more natural or shorter to say, my impression is really coming along. As of right now, notifications are not possible on the Google Home, unless you consider. However, notifications were one of the upcoming features announced for Google Home at in May 2017. These notifications are called Proactive Assistance and will alert you of reminders, status changes for upcoming flights, google home change wake word traffic for your commute and more. When notifications will be officially added to Google Home is still unknown. The closest thing to a notification is how the recently added reminders work. When the reminder goes off, Google Home will play a chime. Scheduled routines At long last, both Google and Amazon rolled out routines for their respective smart speakers. Google home change wake word let users issue a single command to perform multiple actions, such as changing the temperature, controlling the lights and playing music or a podcast. However, there is one major difference between Alexa's routines and Google Home's: scheduling. With Alexa, you can have a routine automatically run at the same time every day while the Google Home routines must be initiated with a command. This may seem like a minor difference, but it means you won't be waking up to Google Home telling you the weather and the news. Drop in You can use Google Home to call virtually any number. Alexa speakers offer a feature calledwhich is like calling, but it doesn't require the person on the other end to answer. When you drop in on someone, the call is immediately answered on their end. This requires the permission of both parties and is intended to be used to check in on family members. Voice remote If you're across the house from your Google Home speaker, you may not want to yell to tell it a command. With an Alexa speaker, you can pair the Alexa voice remote to your speaker. Then hold the Microphone button and issue commands to the speaker from almost anywhere in your house. With the Google Home, there is no such remote. However, for most commands, you could simply grab your iPhone or Android phone and speak a command to Google Assistant. But it is somewhat more cumbersome than having a remote dedicated to the speaker. Donate to charity Earlier this month, Amazon announced a pretty significant feature for people with a giving spirit. This new feature comes ahead of rumors of peer-to-peer payments. Google Assistant and the feature will be rolling out to Google Home in the future. However, no charitable donations are on the horizon for Google's smart speaker… that we know of.
