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| Is Google home ready to deal with your whole family? |
Apparently,
Google thinks we all lead lonely lives. His new virtual assistant,
Google home, does not seem to know how to react to a house full of
different people with different tastes. And this is a problem, because
the wizard needs to create a profile with your lifestyle and your
desires based on your Google account.
Yes,
that's scary, the idea that Google is watching you so intensely that it
builds a profile with all your preferences. But that's what he does. If
you don't like it, don't buy Google home. And you probably want to
avoid using Gmail.
Putting
that aside, in my home there are three different people with different
tastes and opinions. We have lists of varying slopes and unique
reminders. The more you go into the "Smart wizards" world, the more
answers depend on each person's preferences.
Take
as an example the question of the "State of traffic to get to work", a
question that intelligent assistants always respond in their
presentations. Most households have two people who go to work at
different times, in different places. But that's just the tip of the
iceberg. A smart Wizard with knowledge of TV preferences, for example,
might have to deal with the instruction "play something on TV that is
the next episode of something I've seen." My daughter does not want to
see person of interest, and Steven Universe is not my first choice of
entertainment. It's not that bad, but it's not my first choice.
That
said, people do not necessarily need to have their libraries
separately. If my daughter wants to buy Steven Universe I would not
worry about adding a method of payment to her account. Google, Amazon
and Apple have options for family sharing in most of their products that
can solve this problem.
Amazon
allows multiple accounts in its echo products. Just say "Change your
mind" and it will change the user Alexa thinks he's going to talk to.
But Google confirmed that Google home will only work with one account.
This
seems to be a problem they will eventually solve. Google did it with
Android in 2012 and, since Google Home will be released until November,
it may be solved by then.
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Echo's
"Change account" command is pretty clumsy, it's true. Ideally, the
voice interface should be able to notice the difference between the
voices of different people, and I would be very surprised that they
could not achieve it given the level of innovation that both Google and
Amazon have.
Once
you have a family function, there are more interesting things that
Google home could do. For example, I could ask Google home how long my
daughter spent using Chromecast in the last week, and alert me when it's
more than 10 hours. Or my wife could leave a message for me that only I
could hear.
Google
home will need some kind of function for multiple users to function as a
smart wizard in a family context. Let's hope that's when it's
presented.
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