Google s virtual assistant Home facing glitches

New York June 5 (IANS) Google pinned a lot of hope on its virtual assistant Home to take on Amazon s Alexa but it appears that it has gone bonkers with the users reporting indifferent behaviour from Home .

The virtual assistant is spitting out errors instead of controlling smart home devices and answering questions.

According to multiple online complaints there s a Google Home outage affecting a significant portion of users tech website Android Police reported on Monday.

To know if Home is affected users need to use a trigger phrase and it will respond with Hmm something went wrong. Try again in a few seconds or There was a glitch. Try again in a few seconds.

Most users say the issues started popping up in the last day or two and today Google Home has a nearly 100 per cent failure rate the report said.

What is interesting is that other devices with Google Assistant are working fine.

While some owners reported that a hard reset of Home fixed the issue many others still had problems after resetting.

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