My Storytime: How Google Assistant helps you record stories for kids

(Pocket-lint) - Google is perpetually updating its user AI, Google Assistant, with much features. One that you whitethorn not person tried yet is called My Storytime.

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What is My StoryTime?

Google Assistant's My Storytime diagnostic allows you to work to kids erstwhile distant from location oregon busy. As a genitor oregon loved one, you tin grounds yourself speechmaking chapters of stories, and past the kid tin inquire a Google Nest instrumentality to play those recordings aloud. 

How does MyStoryTime work?

Parents

So, if you're a parent, travel these steps to get started:

1. Visit the My Storytime website.
2. Log into your Google relationship - the 1 connected to your Nest talker astatine home.
3. You’ll beryllium asked to marque abbreviated recordings, including phrases that volition assistance usher Storytime erstwhile invoked, specified arsenic “Which communicative would you similar to hear?” oregon “Should we support reading? "or "Read a antithetic story?”
4. Once you’ve recorded those set-up phrases, you tin commencement signaling yourself speechmaking aloud full chapters of immoderate book.

Children 

Once the diagnostic is acceptable up, immoderate kid oregon immoderate idiosyncratic tin simply accidental to your Google Nest device, “Hey Google, speech to My Storytime”. Then, they tin prime a circumstantial section that they privation to hear. This is evidently useful for parents who enactment nighttime shifts oregon question often for work.

Are your recordings private?

All your recordings volition beryllium saved to your My Storytime page, and they tin beryllium played backmost from there, too. Google says your recordings volition beryllium saved securely successful the unreality and tin lone beryllium accessed by the radical you stock them with, whether that be family oregon friends. They conscionable request to beryllium implicit 13 and person a Google Account. However, if they person entree to your Nest, they tin easy perceive to your recorded stories from that.

Which books tin you record?

Any publication your kid requests! If they emotion a publication and privation to person the acquisition of speechmaking it aloud with you, conscionable drawback that, and grounds it. Then, erstwhile you're away, they tin unfastened the publication and inquire Google Assistant to commencement playing your recording. 

Want to cognize more?

Check retired Google's promo video connected the caller diagnostic below:

Writing by Maggie Tillman. Originally published connected 22 November 2019.