Google Assistant Getting ‘Family Bell’ Alarms, Enhanced Broadcast Feature

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Assistant Getting ‘Family Bell’ Alarms, Enhanced Broadcast Feature

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Assistant is getting a host of new and useful feature that aims to make the life of students and their family easier amidst these uncertain times. These new features include

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Family Bell that is a new alarm-like feature to help families manage school from home. Bell reminders can announce when it’s time for activities such as online classes, breaks, reading time, bedtime, and more. This can be set up on any mobile device with

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Assistant or the

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Home app. With schools being shifted to laptop and phone screens, it is getting ******* to keep track of various activities. Family Bell aims to smoothen this process, enabling families to stay on top of their schedules. Starting yesterday, August 5, Family Bell is being rolled out in India, Australia, Canada, the ***, and the US.

Family Bell by

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can be programmed through the

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Assistant app on the phone. With this feature, you can customise alerts that will act as reminders to someone in the household to do a certain activity. The app suggests bells for activities such as recess, nap time, and math time. The bells can be created and managed on Assistant-enabled Android and iOS phones to play on either smart speakers or smart displays. Users can choose which days the alarm should ring, and which smart device it should chime from.

An already existing feature on

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Assistant is the ability to broadcast and reply to messages around the house.

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is also set to enhance this feature by allowing you to broadcast to a specific room or device, making communication easier. For example, if you’re in the dining room, you can broadcast to your daughter’s room, reminding her that dinner is ready.

There will also be an Animal of the Day feature that will provide facts about different animals every day, provide the sound the animal makes, and throw up challenges for drawing the animal. You can also set up a feature to show certain visuals on smart displays when you say something, if you wish to set up a school-like atmosphere.
“The balancing act of working, parenting and schooling at home continues, and as it does, we hope these new tools will help keep your family on track in your new routine,” said

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in a statement while

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in a blog post. Family Bell is currently available only in English. All you need to set it up is a speaker or smart display, and a mobile device with

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Assistant or the

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Home app.

Gadgets 360 couldn’t spot Family Bell on

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To check if it’s available for you, and to set up a alarm, follow these steps: open

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Home app on your Android phone/tablet. Tap on your profile picture on the top right corner and click on Assistant settings > Family Bell. Tap on Add a Bell and enter the announcement details. Finally, click on Create new bell. You’ll get a notification on your mobile device when a bell is announced. You can read further instructions on setting up Family Bell

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