How to activate Google Assistant on your Android smartphone

Hi friends today I am telling you how to activate and set up "Google Assistant" on your android smartphone. Some of you knows the "Siri" which is available only on iPhone, I think everyone knows "Siri" because of its popularity. Siri is the name of Apple's personal digital assistant which do a maximum task without touching your iPhone by saying "Hey Siri". It's basically a voice control that talk back to you, that understand relationship and context. You can ask question and many more things we can do with the Siri, similarly like Siri our android user can use "Google Assistant".

Google Assistant is a virtual personal assistant developed by Google and announced at its developer conference in May 2016. Unlike Google Now, the Google Assistant can engage in two-way conversations. Assistant initially debuted as part of Google's messaging app Allo, and its voice-activated speaker Google Home. After a period of exclusivity on the Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones, it began to be deployed on other Android devices in February 2017, including third-party smartphones and Android Wear, and was released as a standalone app on the iOS operating system in May. Alongside the announcement of a software development kit in April 2017, the Assistant has been, and is being, further extended to support a large variety of devices, including cars and smart home appliances. The functionality of the Assistant can also be enhanced by third-party developers.

How to set up, secure, and start using Google Assistant.

Now I am telling you the steps to activate Google Assistant on your android smartphone, follow the following steps.

Step-1: Click on the "setting icon" and now you are in your android setting menu, see the below screenshot. 

Step-2: Click on "Additional Settings" (if you are using mi smartphone). If you are using a other brand smartphone then click on "Other Settings" or "More Settings" or anything like that.

Step-3: Click on "Language & input" then you see the "Google voice typing". See the below screenshot.

Step-4: Click on "Google voice typing" then you see the below screenshot. It containts,

• Languages - You can change your default language which is used by Google Assistant to understand your default language and talk to you with your default language. [Ex. English(India), English(UK), English(US)].
• 'Ok Google' detection - Here you need to set up your Google Assistant  to detect your voice, by saing "Ok Google" three times your set up will be done. You can see the screenshots.
• Hands-free -  This feature allow request with device locked, if you are using Bluetooth device or wired headset it detect your voice by using this devices.
• Speech output - Speech output is an Accessibility Service for Android which converts language text into spoken synthetic speech. This means a user is able to type in content and have it read back to them aloud and automatically.
• Offline speech recognition - This feature is useful when you does not have an internet connection available this feature work offline with some limitations, but still it is very useful feature.
• Block offensive words - Enable it. It hide recognised offensive voice result.

Step-5: Click on "Ok Google detection" and by clicking "Get Started" set up your voice by saying "Ok Google" three times. And here your set up will be done.

Step-6: Click home button and say "Ok Google" and here your "Google Assistant" is ready to respond. Now enjoying your "Google Assistant" by asking some question like who are you? Tell me joke? and give some commands like set remainder or set alarm.

Use "Google Assistant" Offiline :- You can use Google Assistant as a offline, to use this feature offline you need to download the offline language pack like English (US), English (India), Hindi, Chinese and many more languages you can download as your wish. There are different English languages, the difference in that is the accent like English (US) accent is different and English (India) accent is different then you need to choose correct option. If you choose the English (US) then you need to speak in US accent, if you speak in English (India) accent then Google Assistant can not detect your words properly, that is the reason to choosw correct option. To download this language pack go to Step-4 as I explain above.

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