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Sneaking Early Gemini Features Into Google Home

Gemini for Home still isn’t officially rolled out, but there’s a workaround floating around that lets you access part of the Gemini experience early: the upgraded Gemini voice pack, which is normally tied to the upcoming Home assistant revamp. On your phone, pop this into your browser: googlehome://assistant/voice/setup This deep-link forces the Google Home app to launch the new Voice Setup UI — the same one Google is reserving for the Gemini transition. If you’re using Chrome, pick the second option when it appears. The first one is just a Google search. You might see a “Continue to Home?” prompt,  hit Continue. You’re immediately given a choice of ten new voices, polished, ultra-natural, and clearly modeled after the more expressive Gemini TTS engine: Amaryllis – soft, airy, almost therapeutic Calathea – deeper, grounded Croton – bright, youthful Yarrow – calm, articulate They have that Gemini warmth, the same energy Google used in its AI Studio demos, not the old rob...

Root Android 14 beta 2 with Magisk Delta

Currently android 14 beta 2 can only be rooted with the canary magisk delta. Use the canary version. I have tested this on a pixel 6 pro

We will need the pixel 7 pro boot image

Transfer the boot.img to the phone 


Note: this has been tested on a pixel 6 pro


Patch the file with magisk delta install > select and patch a file

Copy it back to the PC. Open a terminal in the platform tools folder and type 

.\adb reboot bootloader

Copy the path to the file

.\fastboot flash boot "path_to_patched_boot.img" 

.\fastboot reboot 





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