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Routine automates some of the tasks of Google Assistant and Mountain View’s smart speakers. Here’s how
Google Assistant, or Google Assistant if you prefer to call it in English, is an AI-based digital Big G assistant and a direct competitor to Amazon Alexa. Like Alexa, the Google Assistant can be used to control smart speakers (mainly Google Home, but not limited to) and smart home devices. And thanks to the so-called routines, it can be precisely adapted to your needs by setting routines.
Routines are nothing more than several tasks performed one after the other, started with one command or at a given time. The Google Assistant already has routines pre-programmed for classic tasks that should be performed throughout the day that you can modify as you like. Creating new Google Assistant routines is very simple and allows you to get the most out of this technology. However, at the heart of it all is the Google Home app, which you must download (if not already installed on your smartphone by default) to enter the Assistant’s world.
Predefined Google Assistant routines
After you’ve downloaded Google Home and logged in to your Google Account, you can begin to customize the way your Assistant responds to your commands. To create a new routine, tap Settings> Assistant> Routine. You will find 6 pre-set routines: “Good morning”, “Good night”, “Leaving home”, “At home”, “Everyday commute” and “Everyday drive home”. These routines contain various commands to be followed during classic moments of the day: when you wake up or go to bed, when you are at home and want to relax, when you leave the house, and when you come in and out of work. As mentioned above, one voice command is enough to activate routine actions, unless they are “timed”: in which case they will start automatically at a certain time.
How To Create A New Routine With The Google Assistant
You can add as many as you want to the preset Google Assistant routines. To do this, in the same tab as before, tap the “+” icon. In the opened tab, there are three fields for setting: “When …”, “My assistant should …” and “And then put …”. Basically, you have to tell him when to do something (within a certain time period or after saying a certain command), what to do, and finally what media to play when the command finishes.
How To Customize A Programmed Routine
All six standard Google Assistant routines are customizable. To do this, click on one of them and the “When …” and “My assistant should …” tab for that particular routine will open. For example, in the “Good morning” routine, you can change the voice command “good morning” to “good morning”, “hello Google”, or any other preferred word or phrase. Likewise, you can also change the set of tasks that the Google Assistant is supposed to perform whenever it hears a set of commands.
