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Voice User Interface • Multi-modal Design
Supercharging your Google Home experiences with Gemini.
💡 Ideation
Phase 1: Design a vision on how Gemini can address core user needs in the Home
💡 Explore, Learn & Discuss with Gemini
Get answers about any topic in the universe from the smartest assistant right in your home.
Available anytime, enabling anyone at home to participate.
🎬 Keep You Entertained & Informed
Find the perfect song
Create the perfect playlist
Locate a photo memory
Get a personalized summary of the latest news
Hear a bedtime story just for your family
📆 Keep Your Household On-Track & On-Schedule
Communal calendaring, task management & reminders for the home
Easier task creation & management with a more natural & resilient voice interface
Your home can pull in events & tasks from multiple sources
📖 Learning companion
Get creative inspiration
Get into deep discussions about any subject
Have a personal tutor at home to create quizzes and study documents
🧪 Prototype & Test
Phase 2: Design and build a Proof of Concept that works across in-market home hardware
Launch baseline experience across existing Home surfaces
In-Market Displays
In-Market Speakers
New Voices
Launched new LLM powered voices into the home as a more conversational & capable agent.
Existing Assistant voice
New Gemini voices
After rigorous user testing we are introducing a new set of radically more natural LLM powered voices, tailored uniquely to the home.
Aloe
Calm, Mid-range voice
Oxalis
Bright, Mid-range voice
Ivy
British accent, Mid-range voice
Eucalyptus
Australian accent, Higher voice
User feedback
This voice actually sounds like someone I would meet walking down the street or at the grocery store. This voice feels nostalgic and open.
Home Agent
Applying new Gemini powered capabilities across in-market Home devices.
Problem
Noisy Events
Motion event detection is particularly noisy today. So we sought a way to use LLM's to search home camera footage for us and only surface what's needed.
Proactive notifications
Everyone can see & take action on important home events & insights with fullscreen notifications
Gemini Notifications are communal, timely & actionable, and use AI captions to be more helpful
Design Concept
Searchable Home across Nest Camera footage
Ask about recent home activity on your Google smart display
*Above concept was created still using the Classic Assistant Voice Plate
🚀 Launch Public Preview
Phase 3: Quickly bring Gemini to the Home on speakers and Smart Displays across our Public Preview testers
Meet GiA
Launch baseline experience across existing Home surfaces
Education & Opt-in
Users are educated and can opt-in to Gemini in Home via the Google Home App
Demo: Launch Gemini in Home to our home hardware
Engage in free and natural conversation on your smart home speaker
A Gemini-boosted Google Assistant is now available on some Nest speakers.
🚧 ACTIVE WORK TO BE UPDATED
🔮 Vision for Agent Expression
Phase 4: Introduce a new visual expression for Home Agent that’s modernized for the Gemini Era
We want to introduce a new visual expression for Home Agent that’s modernized for the Gemini Era, and that can scale across Speakers, Displays & TVs
Concepts
Listening
Color from bottom responds to users voice
Thinking
Rotating color while Gemini is thinking
Responding
Color from top responds to Gemini Voice
