Google Home suffers outage, Assistant stops responding to commands
Google Home, the tech giant’s smart speaker suffered an outage where the Assistant did not respond to the users. Google Home is equipped with the AI-based assistant which responds to the launch phrases, ‘Ok Google’ or ‘Hey Google’. Unfortunately, Google Assistant was responding with, “Hmm, something went wrong. Try again in a few seconds,” or “There was a glitch. Try again in a few seconds.” Google updated saying that the glitch has been fixed now. The Google Home outage appears to have started from May 31 according to the complaints posted on Google Home Help Forum. Android Police reported that only the Google Home smart speaker was affected with this glitch, and the other devices with Google Assistant worked fine. Google Home users who pointed out the glitch on the forum said that they had tried resetting the device, and even changed the Wi-Fi network, but the problem was still occurring. To some users, the command ‘Ok Google’ would work 60 to 70 percent of the time, and...