Google Home will have more to talk about thanks to 34 new services.
Google Home got support for Netflix just a day ago while Google Photos was included recently. In the near future, Google Assistant will be in cars, particularly in Mercedes-Benz vehicles. This will be previewed in the upcoming CES 2017, according to VentureBeat.
Today, it is introducing more than 30 new 'conversation actions' tackling different fields including medicine (WebMD), recipes (Food Network), travel (Lonely Planet), tech (Product Hunt), games (Blackjack, Akinator), news (CNBC, HuffPost), movies (And Chill), books (Itcher), meditation (Headspace), cocktails (Tender), and pizzas (Domino's).
Here is a complete list of all the new actions of Google Home:
21 Blackjack
Akinator the Genie
Anchor
And Chill
Argus
Ask Jelly
Busuu
CNBC
Domino's Pizza
Eliza
ELLE Horoscopes by The Astro Twins
FitStar Personal Trainer
Food Network
Genius
Headspace
The Huffington Post
Itcher
Lonely Planet
NBC News
NPR One
Number Genie
Product Hunt
Quora
Quotery
SongPop
Sub War
Tender
The Bartender
The Wall Street Journal
Todoist
Trivia Blast
VentureBeat News
WebMD
Wonder
The voice-activated smart speaker first arrived in October and was poised to rival Amazon's own smart speaker, the Echo, and other smart speakers and digital assistants.
When going up against the Amazon Echo and Alexa, Google Home falls a bit short. But that is mainly because Alexa already has thousands of skills or capabilities. Google recently announced that third-party developers may create 'conversation actions' through the 'Actions on Google" platform. PC World believes this move y the company means "Google Home will quickly become the intelligent home aid we want it to be".
Google Assistant product lead, Jason Douglas relayed that, "Conversation Actions from early access partners will begin rolling out over the coming weeks - starting today."
Douglas added that the company is "excited to see what developers build".
