Google Assistant is the main selling point behind the Google Home, but Assistant can’t really help you if there’s audio blasting in the background and it can’t hear you. To alleviate this, Google Home will now automatically lower the volume of any music or video playing on speakers or TVs that it’s casting to when a user is speaking to Assistant.
The idea is simple – to make it easier for Assistant to hear you when you speak to it and for you to more easily hear Assistant when it replies back, Home will now automatically lower volume from casted devices when Assistant is activated.
Google Home will soon lower volume of videos and music you’re casting to devices when you’re using Assistant was written by the awesome team at Android Police.