Google Home will soon get better at recognizing you

Google Home 即将提升识别能力

A new update for Google Home could make it less likely your smart home cameras mistake you for someone else, just because you’re facing away from the camera. Starting June 23rd, Google’s expanding its facial recognition feature so that people you’ve tagged in your Familiar Faces library can continue to be identified when their faces aren’t clearly visible, using “additional non-biometric signals (body size, clothing color, etc.).”

Google Home 的一项新更新将降低智能家居摄像头因你背对镜头而将你误认为他人的可能性。从 6 月 23 日起，Google 将扩展其面部识别功能，以便在“熟悉面孔”（Familiar Faces）库中标记的人员即使面部不清晰时，也能通过“额外的非生物识别信号（体型、衣物颜色等）”被持续识别。

The Familiar Faces library will also begin automatically updating with the most recent images of everyone in your house, so you should get fewer inaccurate notifications from outdated examples.

“熟悉面孔”库还将开始自动更新家中每个人的最新图像，因此你因过时的样本而收到不准确通知的情况将会减少。

Google also says its AI-generated video event descriptions “can now identify specific sounds — like dogs barking, alarms, or footsteps” and include them in the notes, even if the audio came from something off-camera. All of these updates could help address some of the quirks The Verge’s Jennifer Pattison Tuohy noticed while trying out Google’s updated smart home system last year, like event logs with detailed descriptions of people who weren’t there, and things that didn’t happen.

Google 还表示，其 AI 生成的视频事件描述“现在可以识别特定的声音——比如狗叫声、警报声或脚步声”，并将其包含在记录中，即使声音来自镜头外。所有这些更新都有助于解决《The Verge》的 Jennifer Pattison Tuohy 在去年试用 Google 更新后的智能家居系统时发现的一些怪异问题，例如事件日志中详细描述了不在场的人，以及记录了并未发生的事情。

A new update to the Google Home app in version 4.20 also adds new “System Health alerts” if your Nest thermostat detects issues with your HVAC, which sounds like a Gemini-connected update to the previously existing Google Nest System Health Monitoring, and improved support for Matter switches.

Google Home App 4.20 版本的新更新还增加了“系统健康警报”（System Health alerts），如果你的 Nest 温控器检测到暖通空调（HVAC）系统出现问题，就会发出提醒。这听起来像是对现有的 Google Nest 系统健康监控功能的 Gemini 关联升级，同时还改进了对 Matter 开关的支持。