So the times have come when you can talk to gadgets, and they maintain a dialogue. In many Android devices, whether it's a smartphone or a smart TV, Google Assistant virtual assistant is installed out of the box. It will help the user to organize things, answer any questions of interest, brighten up leisure time and generally make life easier. Try to work with a personal virtual assistant for just a few days and you will be surprised how you could do without his services.

So, Google's assistant knows almost everything. You can ask him questions of absolutely any nature and most of them will receive exhaustive answers. The assistant is called by the command "OK, Google!" directly from the locked screen of the smartphone, by a separate button on board the mobile device or remote control to the TV, by tapping on the corresponding application icon.

Flexible configuration of the virtual apprentice on the example of a conditional Android smartphone is available under the path "General Settings → Google → Settings for Google applications → Search, Assistant and Voice control → Google Assistant".


This course may vary slightly from device to device. The user has the right to teach the assistant to recognize your voice, choose the languages of communication with the assistant, create and manage reminders, and flexibly debug the attendant for specific tasks performed. Everything and everything lends itself to settings here, starting from the timbre of the Google Assistant voice and ending with the flexible interconnection of the assistant with devices from the smart home ecosystem.

Flexible configuration of the virtual assistant in your own way is available in the menu.

The list of tasks performed by the assistant opens the search for the necessary information according to the user's requests:

Search queries and answers to them

"How long does the Queen of Great Britain rule?", "How tall is Vitali Klitschko?", "How long to go from Belgrade to Rome?", "The name of the capital of Nepal" — the virtual assistant clearly and clearly gives answers to the questions posed.

Google Assistant immediately gives intelligible answers to clearly posed questions.

Google Assistant knows all the same things as the parent Google search engine. In fact, the assistant draws knowledge from there, providing it to the user "on a platter". The assistant is well-versed in dates, quickly translates measurement values from one to another, knows exchange rates, time in New York and Istanbul. The main thing is to ask him intelligible questions.

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Reminders and events

Writing reminders and events to an electronic calendar is a very time—consuming activity. Whether it's the case to contact Google Assistant about this. The assistant perfectly understands phrases in the manner of "Sign me up for a doctor on Thursday at 14:00" or "Remind me to call my mom in three hours." Voila, a virtual assistant will do all the work for you, who will remind you of upcoming events at the right time. And if you pre—configure the Voice Match voice recognition function, you don't even need to unlock your smartphone to create reminders — you can plan your business with a couple of phrases said out loud.

Media Content management

Google Assistant knows a lot about good music. He can be given not only specific instructions like "Turn on a fresh Morgenstern track" — the assistant makes playlists according to the commands "Play rock and roll", "Play jazz music", etc. Previously, you only need to set a standard application for searching for audio tracks, well, or select it after each music search procedure using a virtual assistant.

Many modern televisions can conduct a dialogue with the audience through voice assistants.

In smart TVs with a Google assistant, you can turn on movies and TV series based on user requests, clips on YouTube, search for collections of films of interesting genres or with specific actors. For example, "Turn on Fast and Furious 9", "Find comedies for 2021", "All movies with Rowan Atkinson". Also, with the help of commands to the assistant, the user has the right to control the operation of the TV: "Turn it down", "Pause", etc.

Smart speakers with Google Assistant support

Working with time

As mentioned above, Google Assistant knows perfectly well what time it is in Beirut or Adelaide. And he is also well-versed in dates. The apprentice easily answers the questions "How many days are left until the New Year?", "On what day of the week does March 8, 2025 fall?", "What number will be in 35 days?".

Google's assistant is perfectly oriented in time.

According to the commands "Mark 15 minutes" or "Turn on the stopwatch for half an hour", the virtual assistant immediately starts the timer. The same goes for alarm clock management: "Set the alarm for 4 am", "Wake me up in 5 hours", etc. Agree, it is much easier to say this than to go into the clock settings and manually enter the required alarm time.

Travel planning and navigation

In order not to be late for an important meeting, before leaving home, ask Google Assistant "Are there any traffic jams on the route from home to school, and then to work?". The device screen will immediately display the route of the trip, the estimated time of arrival and information about traffic congestion. In a more global sense, Google's assistant can be used to plan city travel by public transport, long-distance trips or flights to other countries. Fortunately, the virtual assistant knows all the transport schedules that have bothered to put on the Internet.

Shopping lists

One of the useful cases of using Google Assistant is creating a shopping list before a visit to the supermarket. Did you remember that a light bulb burned out at home? "OK, Google! Add a light bulb to your shopping list." Do you want fresh fruit? "Put bananas and strawberries on your shopping list."

Google Assistant helps you prepare for a visit to the store.

You can open the list by the command "Show my shopping list". Swipe your finger from left to right on the selected position, you can cross out the product, from right to left — delete unnecessary purchases altogether. Convenient, anyway.

Smartwatch on Android OS

Smart photo search

The "smart" algorithms of the artificial intelligence system provide a search for photos by any criteria of interest. Google Assistant searches for images by searching for "Find me photos from the mountains" or "Find all photos from Turkey". Also, the virtual assistant will help you find frames taken on a certain date. He draws information from the Google Photos app.

Easter eggs

Google's Apprentice has a great sense of humor. He jokingly answers many tricky questions, beeps in Morse code and even raps. See for yourself:

Google Assistant answers many tricky questions with humor.
Interesting fact. Google's virtual assistant knows and performs some spells from Harry Potter. In particular, the Lumos command is used to turn on the flashlight, and Nox is used to turn off its light.
Virtual apprentice can be given any tasks.

Google Assistant brings a little magic to this everyday world and raises the level of user interaction with gadgets to a new qualitative level.