Google Assistant, the intelligent personal assistant in your pocket has immense benefits for the Busy Kenyan Professional who lives their life on the fast lane. With the great prevalence of smartphones in Kenya, It is surprising that quite a large section of the population do not know that you can use Google Assistant in Kenya and even use the voice command features of interacting with Google Assistant. For those who are unfamiliar with this tool, here is a brief overview of what Google Assistant is.

For those who are unfamiliar with this tool, here is a brief overview of what Google Assistant is.

At the basic level, Google Assistant is a virtual artificial intelligence system built by google to be an assistant for all the light duty tasks that you normally make on your phone or the internet like making a call, sending an SMS or pulling data from the internet. All Android phones come equipped with this tool (however for Android Lollipop and backward, the tool was in more primitive forms and known as Google Now.

12 Things You Can Do with Google Assistant In Kenya

Here are 12 things that you can do with your Google Assistant App on your Android Device using voice commands

Use as Calculator
Check Weather
Ask it to tell you jokes
Ask it random facts
Get local Kenyan News
Use it to navigate to any location
Open apps on your phone
Schedule Callendar events
Send SMS’s to your contacts
Initiate calls through voice
Set Reminders for google to remind you later
Remember where your last locations for things that you stored.

Here is some interesting tricks shared by Beebom on their youtube channel on the tricks you should know about:

Unfortunately, if you have an android device, google assistant does not come natively but lucky for you, we have found a way to install it on any android device

See the instructions below: