Voice-activated Google assistant can run your home

Google has revealed a new personal assistant for around the house that can organise your entire home using just your voice.

The device, a voice-activated speaker called Google Home, forms the centre of a Google plan to use artificial intelligence in computing to help give every user “their own individual Google” by becoming personal to them, according to the firm’s chief.

CEO Sundar Pichai used the keynote presentation at the firm’s I/O developer conference in California to reveal new apps, software, and a voice-activated personal assistant that take advantage of new, more intelligent Google software that is better at understanding context.