Translations and Language Processing

• Translations:
  • “How do you say [word or phrase] in [language]?”
  • “[Foreign word or phrase] in [language]”
• On the list of the top 100 spoken languages reported here, Home does not currently support translation to the following languages:
  • Konkani
  • (working on the rest this week)
• Home currently supports translation from the following languages to other languages:
  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • (working on the rest this week)
• While home can spell English words and translate to foreign languages, it cannot currently spell foreign words

Services

• Uber:
  • “Order an Uber.”

Google Search

• Stocks:
  • “How are Alphabet’s stocks doing?”
• Weather:
  • “How’s the weather today?”
  • “How’s the weather today in New York?”
  • “What’s the forecast for [day of week]?”
  • “Do I need an umbrella today?”
• Traffic:
  • “What’s the traffic like on the way to [work | home | business name]?”
• Words:
  • “What does [word] mean?”
• Spelling:
  • “Spell [word].”
• Special events:
  • “When is [event]?” (A holiday like Christmas or thanksgiving, for example)
• People:
  • “Who is [person]?”
• Facts:
  • “How tall is [person]?”
• Things:
  • “What is [thing]?”
• Places:
  • “What country is [location] in?”
• Animal sounds:
  • “What does [animal] sound like?”
• Distance:
  • “How far is [business name] from here?”
• Restaurants:
  • “What are the nearest restaurants to me?”
• Businesses:
  • “Are there any [business type] around here?”
• Business information:
  • “How late is [business] open?”
  • “Is [business] open now?”
• Quotes:
  • “Give me a quote.”
  • “Give me a love quote.”
• Medical information:
  • “What is a torn meniscus?”
• Calories:
  • “How many calories are in [food item]?”
• Authors:
  • “Who wrote [book title]?”
  • “When was [book title] published?
• Inventors:
  • “Who invented [item]?”
• Founders:
  • “Who founded [company, place, thing]?”

Media

• Play music:
  • “Play some music.”
  • “Play some [genre] music.”
• Play an artist or song:
  • “Play [artist].”
  • “Play [song].”
• Play a song by lyrics:
  • “Play the song that goes, ‘Is this the real life?’”
• Play a Google Play playlist or album:
  • “Play some indie music.”
  • “Play [album].”
• Ask what’s playing:
  • “What song is this?”
  • “What album is this?”
  • “Who is this?”
• Get more information:
  • “When did this album come out?”
• Fast forward and rewind:
  • “Skip forward 2 minutes.”
  • “Skip backward 30 seconds.”
• Play music through other speakers using Chromecast:
  • “Cast [song] onto [speaker name].”
• Play music on Spotify:
  • “Play [artist] on Spotify.”
• Play music on Pandora:
  • “Play [artist] on Pandora.”
• Like or dislike a song on Google Play Music / Pandora:
  • “Dislike this song.”
  • “Thumbs up.”
• Play music on YouTube Music:
  • “Play [artist] on YouTube.”
• Play stations on TuneIn:
  • “Play [station] on TuneIn.”
• Play videos on YouTube using Chromecast:
  • “Play on the [TV/Chromecast name].”
• Pull up lists on YouTube:
  • “Let’s look at what’s trending on YouTube on [TV/Chromecast name].”
• Play TuneIn Station:
  • “Play [station] on TuneIn.”
• Sings You a Song:
  • “Sing me a song.”

Netflix and Hulu through a Chromecast

I discovered this and tested out a few phrases running Netflix and Hulu today. If you are watching video on a Chromecast connected to your Home, even if the video wasn’t played through a Home command (which currently would only be YouTube), you can still use voice commands through Home to control it. Here are the ones that I discovered. Every command requires you say “Chromecast” or “the Chromecast” with it (and it looks like you can also say “the TV” in place) or it won’t work near as I can tell. The only thing you can’t do is start a video from an ineligible service just yet.

• Pause the Chromecast
• Resume the Chromecast (“play” doesn’t seem to work)
• Stop the Chromecast
• Skip the Chromecast to MM:SS
• Rewind / fast-forward the Chromecast X seconds/minutes
• Chromecast volume to X%, volume up/down
• Mute the Chromecast

Entertainment

• Sports updates:
  • “Who is [team] playing next?”
  • “Did the [team] win last night?”
• Sports scores:
  • “What was the score for the last [team] game?”
  • “What is the score of the [team] game?”
• Team information:
  • “Tell me about [team].”
• Movies:
  • “What movies came out last Friday?”
• Casting for movies:
  • “What actors are in [movie]?”
• Shows by network:
  • “What shows are on [network]?”
• News:
  • “What’s today’s news?”
• Games:
  • “Let’s play I’m feeling lucky”
  • “Let’s play Madlibs”
  • “Let’s play Crystal Ball” | “Can you tell me the future?”
  • “Let’s play Rock Paper Scissors”
  • “Simon says”
• Poetry:
  • “Read a poem”
  • “Tell me a story”
  • “Tell me a scary story”
• Singing:
  • “Sing a song”
  • “Sing me happy birthday”
• Jokes:
  • “Tell me a joke”
  • “Tell me another one”
  • “Tell me a prank”