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Sneaking Early Gemini Features Into Google Home

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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...
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Syncing Struggles with the Fitbit App on Pixel Watch: Is This a New Feature or Just a Glitch?

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As someone who loves tracking health data through various apps, it’s been frustrating to deal with syncing issues between my Pixel Watch and the Fitbit app. It’s odd because all my other apps sync flawlessly, yet Fitbit, which should be optimized for this kind of functionality, is consistently struggling. What's even more perplexing is that there’s no official context from Google explaining why this issue seems to be exclusive to Fitbit.

This raises a few questions: Could it be a bug in the app? Or perhaps, some kind of new feature that’s causing the sync to delay or misbehave? As of now, there’s no clear answer, and while Fitbit’s platform itself is packed with features, this syncing issue leaves me wondering about its reliability.

I hope this isn’t a sign of things to come, especially for an app so crucial to daily health tracking. It would be reassuring to Google address this head-on and provide some clarity.

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