Showing posts with label voice-assistant. Show all posts
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Sunday, July 9, 2023

Play Content on Google Home

If you have Google Assistant enabled smart speakers or display devices, like the Google Home, you probably already use them with various commands to play content and control your connected devices. On this page, I will list voice commands that you can use to play audio and video content on these devices.

You can start with the conventional voice command "Hey Google" or "Okay Google" to activate the Google Assistant.

Google Assistant-enabled Devices

First a little bit of a build-up. There are several Google Assistant-enabled devices nowadays. The Assistant may be on your phone, speaker, Android Auto-compatible car, TVs, wearables and other devices. A list of devices available in the market can be found here: https://assistant.google.com/platforms/phones/

The commands listed here have been tested on a Lenovo Smart Display that runs the Google Assistant.

Play News

To play news from various online sources on your Google Assistant-enabled device, activate the assistant by saying "Hey Google" or "Okay Google" followed by the keywords in the headings below. For example, you could say, "Hey Google, play the news" or "Hey Google, play technology news". Optionally, if you want to hear the news from a particular source, you could say something like, "Hey Google, play PBS" or "Hey Google, play BBC". At any time if you want to skip the current news source just say, "Hey Google, play next". The source of the content will depend on the new sources currently participating with Google:

Play the News

Plays news from your default sources on Google News (How to set your default news sources?)

Play the latest news about <topic>

Plays news about a topic of you choice. For example, "what is the latest news about India" will play news about India.

Play Technology News

Play Business News

Play Sports News

Plays sports news on Google News from various sources like ESPN Radio, NPR Sports, Fantasy Football Today, CBS Sports Radio Minute, The Early Edge, The Leadoff.

Play World News

Play Entertainment News

Plays entertainment news on Google News from various sources like Billboard News Now, Watch This, IGN, Associated Press, Let Me Google That, Bollywood Hungama, We Hear: Quick Fix, Anchor Weird AF News.

Play Politics News

Plays politics news on Google News from various sources like Politico Playbook Audio Briefing, CNN Political Briefing, NPR Politics, Political Breakdown, Democracy Now! Audio.

Play Science News

Plays science news on Google News from various sources like PBS Newshour Science, NPR Environment, Wired Science, WSJ's The Future of Everything.

Play Health News

Plays science news on Google News from various sources like The Space, NPR Health & Science, NPR Health Care, PBS Newshour Health.

Play Art & Lifestyle News

Plays art and lifestyle news on Google News from various sources like Real Simple Tips, Mom Tips, PBS Newshour Art Beat, NPR Art & Life.

Play National News

Plays national news on Google News from various sources like The Feed on The Official Libsyn Podcast, Air Force Academy News, Early Bird Brief.

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Monday, February 27, 2017

Indian Content on Google Home

After you have got hold of that new toy they call Google Home, you probably start wondering "does it play regional content?" This article attempts to uncover ways to do just that.

Been trying to figure out ways to make the Google Home speaker play online radio content from India and this is what you discover - it can play some Indian radio channels via TuneIn and iHeartRadio. You can, for example, call out Hey Google and tell it to fire up any of these online radio stations playing news, music and other content in Indian languages. Here is a non-exhaustive list of online radio that streams Indian content ranging from news to commentary to music.

  1. Hey Google, play Red FM: plays 93.1 Red FM Vancouver streamed over TuneIn. This Canadian radio station is broadcast from the Metro Vancouver region of British Columbia and the majority of its programming is in Punjabi, Hindi and Urdu languages.
  2. Hey Google, play Radio Mirchi: plays Mirchi FM Online that is streamed over TuneIn. This Indian radio station is broadcast from Suva, Fiji and the majority of its programming is in the Hindi language playing Bollywood and other Indian music. This broadcast is mostly unreliable - more often the playback fails.
  3. Hey Google, play Big FM Kolkata: attempts to play 92.7 Big FM streamed over iHeartRadio but fails.
  4. Hey Google, play Radio City Hindi: plays online Radio City Hindi streamed over TuneIn. This Indian radio station is broadcast from Mumbai and the majority of its programming is in the Hindi language. This channel gives you a flavor of Radio City 91.1 FM online, with mood-mapped Bollywood music, stories from Love Guru and the oh-so hilarious Babber Sher.
  5. Hey Google, play Radio City Hindi Classics: plays Radio City Hindi Classics streamed over TuneIn. This Indian radio station is broadcast from Mumbai and the majority of its programming is in the Hindi language featuring all-time favorite classics of Hindi Cinema’s legendary artists.
  6. Hey Google, play Radio City Bollywood Mix: plays Radio City Bollywood Mix streamed over TuneIn. This Indian radio station is broadcast from Mumbai and the majority of its programming is in the Hindi language featuring select covers, mixes, recreations and much more of favorite Bollywood songs from across the globe.
  7. Hey Google, play Radio City Tamil: plays Radio City Tamil streamed over TuneIn. This Indian radio station is broadcast from Mumbai and the majority of its programming is in the Tamil language featuring the finest picks of Tamil contemporary songs peppered with humor capsules & the iconic Radio City Love Guru.
  8. Hey Google, play Radio City Malayalam: plays Radio City Malayalam streamed over TuneIn. This Indian radio station is broadcast from Mumbai and the majority of its programming is in the Malayalam language featuring blend of contemporary and classic hits.
  9. Hey Google, play Radio City Kannada: plays a radio station from Google Play Music called College Bound - though you would expect it to play Radio City Kannada streamed over TuneIn. This Indian radio station is broadcast from Mumbai and the majority of its programming is in the Kannada language presenting the best of Bangalore.
  10. Hey Google, play Radio City Gujarati: plays Radio City Gujarati streamed over TuneIn. This Indian radio station is broadcast from Mumbai and the majority of its programming is in the Gujarati language featuring a blend of devotional, lok sangeet, garba and Gujarati film music streaming all day long.
  11. Hey Google, play Radio City Marathi: plays Radio City Marathi streamed over TuneIn. This Indian radio station is broadcast from Mumbai and the majority of its programming is in the Marathi language featuring retro music across a wide range of film, devotional and folk compositions, all-day long.
  12. Hey Google, play Radio City Premaloka: plays Radio City Premaloka streamed over TuneIn. This Indian radio station is broadcast from Mumbai and the majority of its programming is in the Kannada language featuring love songs with the soothing voice of Love Guru, all through the day, all throughout the year.
  13. Hey Google, play Radio City Freedom: plays Radio City Freedom streamed over TuneIn. This Indian radio station is broadcast from Mumbai and the majority of its programming is in the Hindi language featuring the best of indie music from across genres straight out of the Indian sub-continent.
  14. Hey Google, play Radio City Electronica: plays Radio City Electronica streamed over TuneIn. This Indian radio station is broadcast from Mumbai and the majority of its programming is in the Hindi language featuring Indie Electronic music 24x7 - Dubstep, House, Chillout, Drum & Bass, Ambient, Trance & more.
  15. Hey Google, play Radio City Metal: plays Radio City Metal streamed over TuneIn. This Indian radio station is broadcast from Mumbai and the majority of its programming is in the Hindi language featuring non-stop Indian metal songs from the biggest bands in the Indian metal underground.
  16. Hey Google, play Radio City Fusion: plays Radio City Fusion streamed over TuneIn. This Indian radio station is broadcast from Mumbai and the majority of its programming is in the Hindi language featuring carefully curated, non-stop contemporary Indian folk fusion songs across languages.
  17. Hey Google, play Suno 1024: plays Suno 102.4 FM streamed over TuneIn. This Indian radio station is broadcast from Dubai, United Arab Emirates and the majority of its programming is in the Hindi language featuring Bollywood and other Indian music.

Some of these streaming services are not always too reliable, though they work most of the times.
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Thursday, April 29, 2010

Apple Buys Siri for its Voice Technology

Apple has bought start-up named Siri, which is a virtual personal assistant for the iPhone and the iPod Touch.

Siri, describes itself as a virtual personal assistant which can take voice commands and act accordingly. For instance, you can ask Siri to book a table at a restaurant, ask it about the movies being played at nearby theatres or about the weather by voice instead of typing it in a search engine on your browser.



Siri, had tie-ups with 3rd Party APIs to provide several services like cab and restaurant table booking.

Scobleizer has a blog post about the acquisition here. Jenna Wortham writes about the event here on The New York Times.

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