{"id":10783,"date":"2026-04-21T17:56:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/10783\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T17:56:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:56:22","slug":"you-can-now-talk-to-google-home-again-without-saying-hey-google-every-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/10783\/","title":{"rendered":"You can now talk to Google Home again without saying \u201cHey Google\u201d every time."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posted Apr 21, 2026 at 4:05 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>You can now talk to Google Home again without saying \u201cHey Google\u201d every time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">When Google <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/788102\/gemini-for-home-new-google-assistant-launch-date-price-features#:~:text=Gemini%20also%20remembers,Live%20(see%20below).\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">launched Gemini for Home<\/a>, it put one key feature behind a paywall. Continued Conversation became available only on Gemini Live, which required Google Home Premium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Starting today, users in <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/googlenest\/answer\/16618650?visit_id=639123839726031598-1439073867&amp;p=request_early_access&amp;rd=1#requestearlyaccesstogfhva\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Early Access<\/a> can once again ask follow-up questions to Google\u2019s voice assistant on their Google Home devices without saying \u201cHey Google\u201d every time, and without paying. Another bonus is that the feature now works with all supported languages and in all regions.<\/p>\n<p>Follow topics and authors from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.Jennifer Pattison TuohyClose<img alt=\"Jennifer Pattison Tuohy\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"_1bw37385 x271pn0\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' %3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'\/%3E%3CfeComposite 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