About a couple of months ago I wrote about one major drawback of popular voice assistants - they can only be connected to a single user account at a time. But recently the things have changed 🤔

Google is adding the ability for up to six people to connect their account to one Google Home. So now when you ask your Google Assistant for help, it can distinguish your voice from your wife’s and you can hear your own personal playlists, your own commute time, your own schedule and more 😳

So how does it work? When you connect your account on a Google Home, Google asks you to say the phrases "Ok Google" and "Hey Google" two times each. Those phrases are then analyzed by a neural network, which can detect certain characteristics of a person's voice. From that point on, any time you say "Ok Google" or "Hey Google" to your Google Home, the neural network will compare the sound of your voice to its previous analysis so it can understand if it's you speaking or not. This comparison takes place only on your device, in a matter of milliseconds 🤖

Your turn, Amazon 😎

https://blog.google/products/assistant/tomato-tomahto-google-home-now-supports-multiple-users/