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Do you have a faithful assistant to assist you in the tasks, from the most useful and everyday to the most unlikely? If you don't have it, don't worry, because that's what Google is OK for . Running the assistant that the search engine launched in Spanish in 2017 is very easy, as long as your mobile has voice recognition activated from any screen.

If not, opening the Google Assistant will require a long press of the Start button . After it, the tool will open in listening mode, waiting for your commands or orders. From then on, you can order what you want from this voice search system, which also works in a web version and other connected devices, such as Google Home speakers for the home.

Back on the mobile, seeing a growing number of people talking with their phones can be somewhat disturbing and even strange, but the truth is that it facilitates a good number of actions. In any case, one might ask why delegate something to a machine that can be done directly and personally and, in addition, without much effort. Is it an experimental issue? Do comfort, convenience or getting on the train of time take precedence in this procedure? Is it a bit of all of the above?

Everyone has their motivations to address this technology, and the truth is that the number of commands that the system is able to respond and, above all, to recognize grows. To date, the amount of information stored is not a problem, but the total understanding of natural language and the context in which it is produced is. In this sense, Google's ability to decipher our words is increasing and better and in many cases it is surprising, although it is still limited and not yet comparable to real interpersonal communication.

For now, and until that moment worthy of science fiction arrives in which humans carry microchips and end up being bionic beings there are already, here and now, reasons why, shortly, we can see each other engaging in conversations with our mobiles. Next, we order in blocks some of the commands that OK Google is able to satisfy, although nothing better than the direct experience and the trial and error method to verify what this voice assistant is capable of.

To control the mobile:

  • Turn on and off mobile functions, such as Wi-Fi or bluetooth.
  • Increase or decrease the phone volume or screen brightness.
  • Camera actions, from taking a selfie to taking a photo or recording a video.

For a more comfortable life:

  • Open an application and enter social networks like Instagram or YouTube.
  • Access web pages.
  • Search for terms and images of what you want to locate, from car models to the tallest skyscrapers, to name just a couple of examples.

To get useful information:

  • Know the atmospheric temperature.
  • Access maps and know how to get to a site.
  • Queries about traffic status.
  • Flight status in real time.
  • Know opening and closing times of stores, cinemas or any other enclave.
  • Translate words or phrases from several languages.
  • Know the meaning of a term, Spanish or foreign, as if the phone were a dictionary.
  • Make currency conversions and equivalences between the different units of measure.
  • Calculator.

Very technological users, lazy fingers and busy hands:

  • Make voice calls to phonebook numbers.
  • Talk to media or stores that can be linked to the assistant.
  • Know the news of the day.
  • Chat on instant messaging networks like WhatsApp and Telegram.
  • Improve culinary skills by preparing recipes, step by step, without touching the screen.
  • Know where you have parked by entering the notice and then retrieving the information through the "remind me where I have parked" command.
  • Make the shopping list and enter additives.

For restless minds and / or fragile memories:

  • Enter reminders: from an appointment to eat with someone, until the time of a medical consultation, writing it down if desired in the agenda.
  • Ask him to memorize things for you, for example, where you left some keys or a document, to ask the system later where is what you had said.
  • Set alarms at certain times.

Pilgrim ideas and specific vital issues

  • Throw a virtual coin in the air and know if it comes face or cross.
  • Roll a dice and know on what face and with what number it falls.
  • Put a countdown timer for the desired period of time, free are the ends and creativity ...
  • Turn the flashlight on and off.
  • Ask the mobile to tell you a joke.
  • Order him to tell you some curious fact, since knowledge does not take place.
  • Ask him to select a famous appointment.
  • Tell him to sing a song or tell you a story.

To fight boredom

  • Play music
  • Play solitaire, three in a row, simple question and answer games, Pacman or the classic Stone, Paper or Scissors.

To sweep the Trivial and answer questions:

  • Ask for information about well-known personalities, such as Donald Trump, Marie Curie or David Beckham, so that the system explains all their biographical data, among many other things.

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