Quick start

Quick start

To get started talking to RealSam Hub, go to your Google Home speaker and say Ok Google, talk to Real Sam.

Whenever you address your speaker without it directly prompting you, you must preface what you say by saying Ok Google or Hey Google. To avoid repetitiveness in this user guide these phrases may not be mentioned in examples.

RealSam Hub has a variety of interesting features available to you, here is a quick list of things you can try to get started:

To listen to a book you can say read me a book, from here you will be given a list of book sources to choose from, and then a list of available books for you to browse. Once you have selected a book source, you can search for books from this source by saying something like Find books by Louisa May Alcott or Find books with title Little Women. RealSam Hub will then provide you a list of books matching your search from your selected book source.

Similarly you could say List podcasts to browse through all the podcasts available to you.

These are only a few of the many features available to you when using RealSam Hub, you can learn more about the other features by listening to the different sections of the user guide.

It is important to note that RealSam Hub is a feature added to your speaker, which handles other commands as well, therefore your speaker can occasionally become confused and not understand that you want to interact with RealSam Hub. To avoid this confusion and to get the best experience using RealSam Hub please listen to the tips and tricks section of the user guide.

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