Surprising weakness?9 tasks that cannot be "Google Home" yet

　The smart speaker "Google Home" is doing well in many ways, but there are clear weaknesses compared to "Amazon Echo", "Echo Dot" and "Amazon Tap".Alexa, a virtual assistant, a brain of Amazon's speaker, has been growing for more than two years.On the other hand, Google's AI "Google Assistant" is still new.

　If you want to fight with Amazon's smart speaker, Google will need to add new features.Here are the nine necessary features that "Google Home" cannot be done at this time.

Delivery status tracking

　Google Home has newly added voice shopping functions.In addition, "Google Now" has a function to extract the tracking number from the email for several years and display the push notification of the delivery status.But Google Home has no function to track delivery status.

　Google Assistant, the brain of Google Home, has a function to provide flight information.However, there is no function to track the delivery status for some reason.

Sleep timer

　You can understand that some functions are lacking at the start of Google Home, but it is surprising that it will launch a smart speaker without a sleep timer function.If you order Google Home to send a sound to relax, it will automatically end it after playing the default environmental sound for one hour.However, it is not possible to order podcasts and music streaming 30 minutes or one hour later.

　You can say "OK Google, set a 30 -minute sleep timer".Google Home will react, but set a 30 -minute timer named "Sleep".But this is useless.

　I hope this feature will be dealt with in the next update.

Creating notes by voice

　An Alexa -mounted speaker has a function to take notes with audio input.

　This function is not in Google Home.This is a strange story given that Google Assistant has the function of "creating a shopping list".

　The functions are there, and it seems that it is not so difficult for Google to add a function to take notes.But when he said, "OK Google, add a new memo," the reply was "I'm sorry, it's not useful."

　The next good measures for these issues are to create an "IFTTT" applet so that you can make notes with "Evernote", "OneNote", or Google Drive.

Execute "Action" in IFTTT

　Like Amazon's Alexa, Google Assistants can also expand their smart speakers using the IFTTT online connection service.IFTTT can operate products and services that are not originally supported, such as LIFX light bulbs and ECOBEE thermostats.

　The IFTTT applet that can be created using Google Assistant is much finer than those for Alexa and can be customized.But Google Home cannot execute "action".In other words, Google Home can only be the "trigger" of the applet.

　If you can use action on Google Home, you can think of at least 10 reasons why it will be convenient.For example, an action to play music when you return home, or an action to notify you when the eggs are less than three or less in the "EGG Minder".