How does Google Assistant work?

Google Assistant offers voice commands, voice searching, and voice-activated device control, letting you complete a number of tasks after you've said the "OK Google" or "Hey Google" wake words. It is designed to give you conversational interactions.

Use the Google Assistant

Get local info

• Weather: What’s the weather today?
• Food: Find pizza restaurants nearby.
• Business hours: Is Walgreens still open?
• Navigation: Navigate home.

Plan your day

• Traffic: How’s the traffic to work?
• Reminders: Remind me to do laundry when I get home. Remind me to call Mom every Sunday.
• Calendar events: When’s my first meeting today? Add a meeting to my calendar.
• Flights: Is United flight 1463 on time?

Ask Google

• Game updates: Who won the Warriors game?
• Calculations: What’s 20% of 80?
• Dictionary: What does "gregarious" mean?
• Translations: How do I say "Nice to meet you" in French?
• Finance: How’s the S&P 500 doing?
• Unit conversions: How many kilometers in a mile?
• Search: Search for summer vacation ideas.
• Image search: Find pictures of kittens.
• Web answer: How do you remove wine stains from a rug?

Play media

• Music: Play some Jazz music.
• Podcasts: Play the latest episode from This American Life.
• News: Play the news. What’s the latest news from BBC?

Have fun

• Get to know your Assistant: Do you dream? What's your favorite color?
• Games: Let’s play a game. Give me a trivia question.
• Entertainment: Tell me a joke. Tell me something interesting.
• Animal facts: Tell me about giraffes. What’s the animal of the day?

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