Google Home will soon get better at recognizing you

new to update Because Google Home can make it less likely that smart home cameras will mistake you for someone else, just because you’re facing the camera away. Starting June 23, Google will expand its facial recognition feature so that people you’ve tagged in your library of familiar faces can still be recognized when their faces aren’t clearly visible, using “additional non-biometric cues (body size, clothing color, etc.).”

The library of familiar faces will also start automatically updating with the latest photos of everyone in your household, so you should get fewer inaccurate notifications from older examples.

Google also says that AI-generated video event descriptions “can now identify specific sounds — like dog barks, alarms, or footsteps” and include them in notes, even if the sound comes from something outside the camera. All of these updates can help address some quirks EdgeJennifer Pattison Toohey noticed while Experience the updated smart home system from Google Last year, such as event logs containing detailed descriptions of people who were not there, and things that did not happen.