Did you receive a smart speaker this Christmas and want to show your acquaintances how brilliant Google Assistant is? Follow the guide !
For the past few weeks, you may have had a new companion in your living room. And chances are you’ll want to demo it at the next family meal. Here are 10 tricks, – not always very useful, we grant you – to wow the gallery at aperitif time with Google Assistant.
1 – Take advantage of its vast repertoire of jokes
It’s a classic, but it always works. Just say “Ok Google, tell me a joke” to the speaker and your Assistant will try a bit of humor. Note that there are nice variations, like “tell me a riddle” and our favorite: “tell me a geek joke”.
2 – Show that Assistant to the math bump
Who calculates better than Google? Not many people. Very good at math, Assistant will answer questions like: “OK Google, what is 321 multiplied by 542, divided by the square root of 24?” There are also some very practical commands: Google will simply calculate a percentage for you, for example, if you are definitely upset with the rule of three …
3 – Transform Assistant into a TV game host
A must with friends: the quiz game integrated into Assistant is fun and very well done. It invites you to participate in a match between friends in five general knowledge questions (not too difficult). You just have to say “Ok Google, I’m lucky”. Laughs guaranteed, if only with the stupid nicknames that the Assistant sticks to players at the start of the game. Only problem, we can not play more than five. Pity.
4 – Offer a clairvoyance number
Who would have thought that Google is turning into Madame Irma? The oracle of the 21st century can in any case answer the questions that bother you with a simple voice command. Just say “Ok Google, activate the crystal ball.” In all honesty, Google still reports after this short experience that the answer is simply calculated … at random!
5 – Have him translate what you want
It’s as practical as it is impressive: Google Assistant is fluent in many languages ​​and allows you to translate even complex sentences from French into another idiom almost instantly. Do you have a German friend at home but don’t speak a word of Goethe’s language? Just say “Ok Google, translate” do you want some tea or coffee? “Into German” for the magic to work. On the other hand, it does not work (yet?) With Corsican or Breton.
6 – Share his incredible general knowledge
Assistant has ingested a good chunk of Wikipedia and knows a ton of things, from the chemical formula of nicotine, to Donald Trump’s height, to Victor Hugo’s date of birth. Just ask it a simple question, like “Ok Google, when was Star Wars 7 released?” to obtain an answer drawn from the immense Knowledge Graph. Be careful not to be too sharp, otherwise you will get an irritating answer “And there is the bug.” “
7 – Discover strange animal cries
This is a function that children love: Assistant has a large bank of animal sounds, some of them wacky. You just have to ask “OK Google, what a noise the dog is making” to hear pretty barking. But it also works with cockroach, manatee or mole.
8 – dust off your photoshoots
If you have a Chromecast that’s connected to the same network as the device with Google Assistant, you can easily view your latest photos stored in Google Photos. You just have to say “Ok Google, show me my photos” for them to be displayed on your television. Note that you can specify your request: “Ok Google, show my beach photos” or “Ok Google, show my photos from Thailand” for example.
9 – Unveil the personality of Assistant
In order to give his Assistant a little life, Google gave him some funny personality traits. You can ask her personal questions like “Ok Google, how old are you?”, “Have you ever had a love story?”, “Do you know Siri?”, “Tell me about your childhood “… The answers are generally quite well received!
10 – Tell him to shut it up
When you are fed up with chatting with an artificial intelligence, it is always handy to know how to silence it. You can simply say “stop” to her, but it is also possible to say “Shut up” or even “Shut up …”. It’s not very polite, but it relieves.