Anyone know how to 'work' google home?

[Shuvi McTupya]

I just got one of these little things and have gone through the set up but i cant get it to call numbers from my contacts as it either says " Please repeat that, I cant find that contact" or it says "I cant verify your voice, so i cant access contacts" or something like that. But then i ask it what my name is and it tells me my name so it obviously does recognize my bloody voice!

I have installed google assistant and uploaded my contacts and the account is synced so the device should be able to see them.

Any idea's?

[JimbobVFR]

Nothing concrete to add other than mine worked fine yesterday.

Maybe it might be worth checking in the "my activity" under the settings in the Google home app. This will tell you what the assistant heard you say. For example I was trying to call my daughter's mobile using mine, however looking in the history I could see every I said Erin the assistant heard Aaron and couldn't find an Aaron in my contacts.

[Shuvi McTupya]

Mine definitely is failing to upload the contacts from my phone to the google network but I have now discovered I can manually add the few contacts I would want so that bit is sorted.

I just wish the voice verification was better as it won't let me use most of the features most of the time!

[voyds9]

Shuvi McTupya said:

I just wish the voice verification was better as it won't let me use most of the features most of the time!

I think the voice recognition is good, even the dog managed to get Oasis playing this morning

[Shuvi McTupya]

voyds9 said:

I think the voice recognition is good, even the dog managed to get Oasis playing this morning

Don't get me wrong, it generally understands what I say, but it doesn't always believe i am me.

Weirdly, i was on the phone earlier telling my buddy about the issue i was having and all of a sudden, the Google box piped up with 'OK, i am setting a reminder for whatever' as it had overheard me. Bloody typical, since then i have set 3 reminders as an experiment and it has worked flawlessly!

[JimbobVFR]

Shuvi McTupya said:

Don't get me wrong, it generally understands what I say, but it doesn't always believe i am me.

This is one of the things I like about the Home Hub (the one with the little 7" screen)

When you issue the activation command it displays a bar along the top to show it's listening for a command, this bar includes an icon to indicate it's recognised a voice match that will either be your profile picture I. Your Google account if you have one or a circle with your initial in it.

You can see at a glance if it's recognised your voice.

If the voice recognition isn't that reliable I'd suggest retraining your voice again. I was having the same issue and it's been much better since I redid my voice

[Shuvi McTupya]

JimbobVFR said:

This is one of the things I like about the Home Hub (the one with the little 7" screen)

When you issue the activation command it displays a bar along the top to show it's listening for a command, this bar includes an icon to indicate it's recognised a voice match that will either be your profile picture I. Your Google account if you have one or a circle with your initial in it.

You can see at a glance if it's recognised your voice.

If the voice recognition isn't that reliable I'd suggest retraining your voice again. I was having the same issue and it's been much better since I redid my voice

I have done it a few times. I am starting to realise that the way i speak to it has a huge effect and that i was trying to hard to be understood. It seems that if i just talk normally and quickly to it , things go better.

[The_Jackal]

lol people always confuse google trying to put on a posh phone voice. It knows its not your real voice.