Google Assistant on speaker, Smart Display, or Smart Clock

1. On your phone or tablet, open the Google Home app .
2. At the top right, tap Account. Assistant settings.
3. Tap You. News.
4. Add or remove news sources.
5. To decide which news sources you hear first, tap and hold the news source you want and drag it to the top.

Click on the news and weather icon. Drag into the profile menu and go down to settings at the bottom of the menu. Once in the settings screen click the only check box on the page that will turn off notifications.

To use the feature, pull up an article or blog post on an Android phone and say either “Hey Google, read it,” or “Hey Google, read this page.” The text can be read aloud and translated into 42 languages, including Hindi and Spanish.

With Google Nest and Home speakers and displays, you can listen to top headlines, get the latest on a certain category of news (like sports, weather, business, tech, etc.), or ask about a specific news topic.

You can now talk to Google Home without saying ‘Hey, Google’ every time. The feature can be enabled in the Google Assistant app. As it currently stands, you need to say “Ok, Google” or “Hey, Google” each and every time you ask your Google Home a question or issue a command to it.

The Google Home is always listening to its environment, but it won’t record what you’re saying or respond to your commands until you speak one of its preprogrammed wake words — either “OK, Google” or “Hey, Google.” Here’s a list of commands you can give your Google Home.

Patent applications from Amazon and Google revealed how their Alexa and Voice Assistant powered smart speakers are ‘spying’ on you. It says patents reveal the devices’ possible use as surveillance equipment for massive information collection and intrusive digital advertising.

Amazon Echo and Google Home speakers have been compromised by apps modified to spy on users after being approved by the technology companies. Once approved, the researchers updated the Echo Skills and Home Actions to eavesdrop and steal passwords. They then alerted the US companies, which blocked the software.

ALEXA can (and does) record your private conversations at home – and you can listen back to them. Thankfully it’s not a nefarious plot to spy on you, but you’ll want to check what she’s been hearing regardless.

Like many other Amazon Prime members, Wilson is caught between the convenience of one-click everything and concerns about her privacy. Recent news reports that Amazon employees listen to conversations recorded by Echo devices (supposedly to improve the voice recognition) only worsened her sense of dread.

Alexa can get real creepy at times, saying weird stuff or cackling for no reason. And the internet loves it every single time. To be honest, so do we because as much as we’ve got used to helpful, polite voice assistants in every room of the house, it still feels like they could go rogue at any minute.

You may wonder if Alexa is listening to conversations, or listening to everything you say. You may want to know whether Alexa listens to you when you’re not directly interacting with an Echo device. The answer to those questions is no. Alexa and all of our Echo devices are designed with your privacy in mind.

No, you can’t silently eavesdrop with Alexa’s drop in feature. When someone drops in to an Alexa-enabled device, that device makes a distinct ringing noise and continuously flashes a green-light, for as long as the drop in occurs.

Alexa came in last place in the test, only answering 80% of the questions correctly. However, Amazon improved Alexa’s ability to answer questions by 18% from 2018 to 2019. And, in a more recent test, Alexa was able to answer more questions correctly than Siri.

Intelligence and accuracy. When it comes to answering questions, Google Assistant takes the crown. During the test of more than 4,000 questions led by Stone Temple, Google Assistant consistently outperformed other industry leaders including Alexa, Siri, and Cortana when recognizing and responding to questions correctly …

If you’re like me and don’t want to ditch your iPhone, you can trick Siri to launch the Alexa app: first say “Hey Siri, open the Alexa app,” unlock your iPhone, and then you should be able to ask Alexa to do things.

Using Alexa on the iPhone is much like using Siri. However, one central function distinguishes Amazon’s assistant from Apple’s: you can use Alexa to order items on Amazon.

In a fight, Alexa would win because she can answer questions much more easily. It’s also a lot easier to develop apps for Alexa than for Siri, so in terms of third-party support, Alexa is vastly superior.

You have to go Settings > Siri to even turn it on (or off). That leaves you the option to continue to use Siri the old-fashioned way—by holding down the Home button. (You can also go in to these settings to kill Siri altogether, or at least prevent use of Siri when the iPhone is locked.)

Google Assistant is still at the top, but now with a score of 92.9% for answering questions correctly. Siri correctly answers 83.1% of questions, while Alexa gets 79.8% correct.

While Siri is ideal for detail-oriented tasks and is entrenched in the Apple device ecosystem, users may find Samsung Bixby to be a more useful smart assistant. You can’t go wrong with either assistant, and your loyalty to Apple or Samsung devices ultimately plays a significant role in your choice.

Best Personal Assistants For Android

• 1) Amazon Alexa.
• 2) Google Assistant.
• 3) Microsoft Cortana.
• 4) Lyra.

Bixby is Samsung’s attempt to take on the likes of Siri, Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa. While it hasn’t had the success of any of those three assistants, it is still pre-installed on many Samsung devices.