Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Secret Google Assistant commands If you have a Google Assistant-enabled device, like the Google Nest Mini or the Google Nest Hub ...

Quick Phrases will let you perform Google Assistant tasks without requiring the “Ok/Hey Google” hotword. You will be able to set alarms, control your music, and more with this in-development feature.

After the Wear OS community’s cries for help over broken “OK Google” functionality were picked up by media and shared widely, Google acknowledged the bug that had plagued the platform for months.

Google has come up with a compromise to make its "OK Google" feature more secure. Rather than allow users to unlock their Android devices completely (a security risk), the Voice Match command will ...

Have you ever actually used the “OK Google” extension in order to search for something? If the answer is “no”, then you’re among the majority of Chrome desktop users. Since nobody is really getting ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Our phones being able to respond to voice commands is great: you can ask for a unit conversion in the kitchen without getting ...

Google's AI personal voice assistant doesn't have a very cool name. Unlike Amazon's Alexa or Apple's Siri, Google's voice assistant is generally just called Google Assistant, or "OK Google," which is ...

Google's Chrome browser now lets you search the Web by simply saying "OK Google" -- no clicking or typing needed. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a technology columnist who has covered everything ...