{"id":207828,"date":"2017-04-21T14:58:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T12:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=207828"},"modified":"2017-04-21T14:59:41","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T12:59:41","slug":"google-home-now-supports-multiple-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/207828-google-home-now-supports-multiple-users.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Home now supports multiple users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/products\/assistant\/tomato-tomahto-google-home-now-supports-multiple-users\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>has added<\/strong><\/a> the ability for up to six people to connect their account to a single Google Home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So now when I ask my Google Assistant for help, it can distinguish my voice&#8230; and I can hear my own personal playlists, my own commute time, my own schedule, and more,&#8221; said Google.<\/p>\n<p>Users can teach their Google Assistant to understand them based on their voice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you connect your account on a Google Home, we ask you to say the phrases Ok Google and Hey Google two times each.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those phrases are then analysed by a neural network, which can detect certain characteristics of a person&#8217;s voice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From there, the device can identify who is speaking in &#8220;a matter of milliseconds&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The feature is currently rolling out in the US.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RZNqSy-zFXo\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/207602-google-developing-ad-blocking-feature-for-chrome.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Google developing ad-blocking feature for Chrome<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has added the ability for up to six people to connect their account to a single Google Home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":181484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[167,37262],"class_list":["post-207828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-google","tag-google-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207846,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207828\/revisions\/207846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}