Google has updated its Assistant app for iOS to support Siri Shortcuts, enabling users to invoke Google's virtual assistant using Apple's virtual assistant, without even having to launch the app. May 02, 2017 This is so Google Assistant can actually read you personalized information. Now that we have created a mechanism for a client in our Windows/Mac/Linux machine, to access the Google Assistant API under our Google account. Next we need to set up the client that will access the Google Assistant API. Install Google Assistant Sample Python. Meet your Google Assistant. Ask it questions. Tell it to do things. It’s your own personal Google, always ready to help. Find answers and get things done while on-the-go with the help of your Google Assistant. Remind yourself to stop by the store, pull up your travel photos to show a friend, or mak. Official Google Assistant Help Center where you can find tips and tutorials on using Google Assistant and other answers to frequently asked questions.
Today we will be installing the Google Assistant on a MacBook running Mac OS X & above. This is just an education video to show you how you can get Google Assistant working on your Mac. Whether you like it or not, it’s getting better every day and unlike Siri that has seen a stagnant growth, Google Assistant and Alexa are the two best virtual assistants available today. So here are the steps you can follow to install Google Assistant on a Macbook.
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Installing Google Assistant on Macbook
The Google Assistant runs on macOS with the help of an app called Mac Assistant which is still in the beta development. But it works great! Moreover, you can contribute to this project development at GitHub.
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Step 1. Download the Mac Assistant latest release here.
Step 2. Double-click to run it. When you see ‘New app from unidentified developer……..’ and you are not able to open it then go to System Preferences>Security & Privacy>General tab.
Click the Padlock and enter the password when prompted. Then click the ‘Open Anyway’ button (see screenshot)
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Step 3. Once you are able to run it, you will see a new icon in the macOS menu bar.
Step 4. Click on the icon, it will open a sign in box (only first time). Use your Gmail credentials to log in and then click ‘Allow’
Step 5. From now when you click the icon, it will open a box with a microphone. Click on the microphone and start asking Google Assistant whatever you want to. You can also trigger Google Assistant by pressing the left command key two times
Step 6. When finished speaking, Google Assistant on your macOS will respond with an appropriate reply. If it doesn’t click on the voice modulation bar after you finish speaking
You can ask her anything, for instance,
“What’s the weather today”
“Who is the president of United States” etc.
As of now, it’s still in beta (development) stage. So this Google Assistant can’t display anything visually like it does on our Android devices or like Siri displays links and stuff like that. Also, in case you want to install it on Windows, refer to this video.
P.S.: Google Assistant runs better in macOS than Windows. Thanks to Mac Assistant. Watch the following video!
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Now Google Assistant can be installed on Any Windows 10/8/7, Mac OS and Linux PC. It’s quick and easy but there’s no fancy GUI for you to play with, and installing Assistant requires you to use the command line. This guide is for educational purposes only.
Step 1. Install Python on Windows, Mac or Linux.
Step 1. Install Python on Windows, Mac or Linux.
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Steps to install Google Assistant on Windows 10, Mac or Linux
Step 1. Install Python 3 or above on Windows, Linux or Mac
You’ll need to have Python installed no matter whether or not you are using Windows, macOS, or a GNU/Linux distribution. Installation is quick and easy. Follow the steps to install Python,
1. Go to Python.org.
2. Choose OS (Mac, Linux or Windows).
3. On next page choose the latest version and download Setup for your OS.
4. Now install it, check Add Pythion to global environments and hit install.
2. Choose OS (Mac, Linux or Windows).
3. On next page choose the latest version and download Setup for your OS.
4. Now install it, check Add Pythion to global environments and hit install.
Once installed, check if Python is working on your machine by opening up a terminal/command prompt and then simply typing “python”. If you see the terminal/command prompt return the current Python version on your computer, then proceed to next step.
Step 2. Configuring The Google Assistant API
- Go to the Projects page in the Google Cloud Platform Console.
- Click on “Create Project” up top.
- Name the Project “My Google Assistant” and click “Create.”
- Wait a few seconds for the Console to create your new Project. You should see a spinning progress icon in the top right. After it is done creating your Project, you will be brought to your Project’s configuration page.
- Click this link to go straight to the Google Assistant API page. Up top, click “Enable.”
- Google will warn you that you need to create credentials to use this API. Click “Create credentials” in the top right. This will take you to a setup wizard page where Google helps you figure out what kind of credentials you need to use this API.
- Under “where will you be calling the API from”, select “Other UI (e.g. Windows, CLI tool)“. For “what data will you be accessing” select the “User data” circle. Now tap “what credentials do I need?”
- Google should recommend that you create an OAuth 2.0 client ID. Name the Client ID anything you want, for example, your name + Desktop. Once done picking a name, click “create client ID.”
- Under “product name shown to users” enter “My Google Assistant.” Click continue.
- Click “done.” There’s no need to click download here as we only need the client secret, which we will download next.
- Now under the list of OAuth 2.0 client IDs, you should see the client ID you just made. All the way to the right, click on the download icon to download the client_secret_XXX.json file, where ‘XXX’ is your client ID. Save this file anywhere on your computer, ideally in a new folder called “googleassistant.”
- Go to the Activity controls page for your Google account and make sure that “Web & App Activity”, “Location History”, “Device Information”, and “Voice & Audio Activity” are enabled. This is so Google Assistant can actually read you personalized information.
- Now that we have created a mechanism for a client in our Windows/Mac/Linux machine, to access the Google Assistant API under our Google account. Next we need to set up the client that will access the Google Assistant API.
Step 3. Install Google Assistant Sample Python Project
Open up a terminal/command prompt window and go through the following steps. First, enter this command:
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This will start downloading a whole bunch of dependencies and will install it on your system. Wait for it to finish. It takes less than a minute.
Next, Edit this command by adding the path to the json file we downloaded earlier in step 2. Then enter the following command in CMD:
Next, Edit this command by adding the path to the json file we downloaded earlier in step 2. Then enter the following command in CMD:
This will return a URL and will ask you to visit that URL to authorize the app. So copy and paste it in the browser. Select theGoogle account you used earlier to configure Google Assistant API.
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On next page, you need to allow aacess to Google Assistant API. So press Allow and on following page, you will get an access token. Copy it and paste in command line, hit enter.
If everything is good, you will see a message saying, Credentials Saved.
Step 4. Testing the Google Assistant
To test if Google assistant is working on your system or not, type the following command in command line. This will record a 5 seconds audio and play it back to you and if it does, this means Google Assistant has been successfully installed on our System.
Now to you can enter this command to start talking to Google assistant,
Wait for the CMD to say “Press enter to send a new request”, now hit enter and Start talking to Google Assistant. After you finish giving command, the command line will display what you said and then give you a response like in any Android device. So there you have it, the Google Assistant on a Windows 10, Mac or GNU/Linux Machine.
Conclusion
In starting, it was fun to use it on Windows 10 but soon I got bored and now i don’t use it. It’s not useful in this form but on the brighter side, it opens up the possibilities and we may sooner see desktop apps and browser extensions taking advantage of this functionality in near future. Hope you enjoyed this, please Subscribe to our YouTube Channel and Newsletter, Hit Like and Share your thoughts in the comment down below on Google assistant for Windows, Mac and Linux. I will be back with another interesting tutorial Soon.
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