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If you have any other questions or comments, fire away in the comments section below. Finally, at the bottom, where it says “And then play…” select “Sounds for sleep”. If you click on the wheel settings right, you can choose the one you like the most. There is rain, sea, stream, river, thunderstorm, forest, night in the field, fireplace, and white noise. Google Home lets you choose your own alarm sound, in the form of media alarms. Unfortunately, the regular alarm sound can’t be changed.
With your Google Nest or Home speaker or display, you can relax and unwind with a variety of soothing ambient sounds. If you ask for something not on this list, such as coffee shop sounds or city sounds, it will try to locate and play the request using your default music streaming service. These will not automatically turn off after one hour, but will stop playing after the track or playlist has finished. If you want to get specific, you can ask Google to play audio ranging from a crackling fireplace to the sound of a running river. I’m a fan of the basic “rain” option, which sounds authentic enough to convince you that the weather outside has taken a turn. When requesting to hear a fan, Google plays what must be a heavy oscillating fan; I don’t think there’s any way to mimic my cheap desk fan from Target, but this also works.
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You can experiment and name any band, singer, or composer for your music alarms. Also, you can choose any radio station you like, just make sure you use the proper name when saying the voice command. There’s plenty of customization and different sounds you can set for the alarm using Google Home. These commands are all self-explanatory, e.g. you see that you can easily set an alarm, cancel it, snooze it, check all the alarms, etc. Go through the in-app notices and agree to turn sound events tracking on. Alternatively, you can switch the mic off on the back of your display to temporarily disable sound events.
Now, go to “Adjusting the media volume” and put it to a medium-low level, so that the sounds are heard in the background, but without being annoying. The volume will depend on how far you have the device and the size of the room, so try several configurations and choose the one that suits you. Google Home will take the music from your default streaming service that’s linked to your Google account. If you haven’t linked any services, or your Google Home isn’t connected to a Wi-Fi network, you’ll hear the normal beeping alarm sound instead of the song you’ve ordered.
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The news “OK Google, goodnight”, how to make Google Home you soothing sounds to go to sleep was originally published in Xataka Android by Jose García Nieto . He oversees all evergreen content and oversees the Homes, Smart Home, and Fitness/Wearables categories for the site. In his spare time, he also tests out the latest drones, electric scooters, and smart home gadgets, such as video doorbells. He received his undergraduate degree from Boston College, where he worked on the campus newspaper The Heights, and then attended the Columbia University school of Journalism. Once you have saved the routine, you will only have to say “OK Google, goodnight” and all that you have marked will happen automatically.
All of Google's ambient sounds can be played by all Google and Nest smart speakers and displays. This includes the Google Home, Home Mini and Home Max, plus the Nest Mini, Google Home Hub, and Nest Hub Max. Alternatively, you can ask the Google Assistant on your smartphone, then have the sound play through the phone's speaker, earphones, or through a Bluetooth-connected speaker. Hopefully, this article will help you adjust the Google Home alarm sounds and its volume to suit your taste. Keep in mind that cast devices, such as smart speakers, won’t play alarm sounds through Google Home.
How to Play Relaxing Sounds on Google Home
I’m personally a big fan of playing white noise at night to help improve sleep. Various studies have shown that white noise does actually improve sleep quality, and it can also mask environmental noise – which further improves sleep quality. I personally use white noise in my baby son’s nursery at night, on the Google Home. And how you can trigger them and play them through your Google Home device. Thankfully, part of this routing can be as simple as asking the Google Assistant to play soothing sounds to help you get to sleep. The voice assistant is loaded with 15 different ambient sounds, ranging from running water and rainfall, to distant thunderstorms and white noise.
Sadly, there is no sleep timer function on Google Home yet. The dedicated support page forrelaxing with Google Homesays you can set a specific duration for ambient sounds to play. However, in our experience, if you say something like, "Hey, Google, play river sounds for two hours," it doesn't play one of the built-in ambient sounds. Instead, it locates and plays a two-hour river soundtrack or playlist from Spotify or Google Play Music, depending on which you have set as your default.
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They will only be played through the Google Home displays or speakers. The tone of the basic alarm sound can’t be changed. Your alarm will play for 10 minutes if you don’t turn it off.
Hey Google, set an April O’Neil alarm for 8 AM every day of the week. When you share your sleep data with Assistant, it allows your sleep and wellness information to be shown on your Nest Hub and allows you to ask sleep-related questions. Learn more about disabling Sleep Sensing and deleting your Sleep data.
With Sleep Sensing, you can turn on or off tracking of sound events like coughing and snoring in the Google Home app. Sleep Sensing settings can be changed in the Google Home app through your Nest Hub’s settings. Alternatively, you can ask for Google Assistant to play a specific sound.
Tristan Perry is a software developer who is passionate about tech gadgets, DIY and housing. He has therefore loved seeing smart homes hit the mainstream. Tristan also has an academic background (in Math & Computer Science), and so he enjoys digging into the technical ways that smart home devices work.
Use the links to download and install the app if you haven’t already. These sounds are very relaxing and you can use them any time you like, whenever you want to let off some steam and just chill. The list of characters might be changed over time, it’s best to check online which ones are currently available. Your kids will surely love this Google Home feature, and maybe they’ll take less time to get up and prepare for school.
One if the most popular is called Sleep Sounds, by Healing.fm. This voice app includes 45 hour-long sleep sounds like thunderstorms, rain and lullabies. They can all be set to an endless loop, if you want to keep the sound going all night. Hey YouTube, I’m Tristan from Smart Home Point.
At the top right, tap Settings Sleep SensingDeactivate sound events tracking Deactivate. At the top right, tap Settings Sleep SensingSet up sound events tracking. A pioneering recommendation platform where you can research, discover, buy, and learn how to connect and optimize smart devices. Only the publication of text in small fragments is authorized as long as the source is cited. It is not allowed to use the content for conversion to multimedia files (audio, video, etc.).
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