Linking your phone number to your Google Home will therefore make it a much more effective replacement for your actual phone. Everything Google just announced: Every story from today's event.

Use your phone for other stuff, like games or texting, when you make calls with Google Home.

How to make calls on Google Home 1) Sync your Google Contacts data First, you need to make your contacts accessible. That’s how the speaker knows what number to dial when you say, “Hey Google ...

Google Home users in Canada and the U.S. will see a new feature roll out this week with free phone calls. Users will be able to call the contacts they have saved in Google, or a business phone number.

While Amazon’s Alexa Calling & Messaging features are for device-to-device calls, the Google Home smart speaker now lets you call a phone number using your voice. And it’s free.

Amazon The Amazon Echo and Google Home could be used to make and receive phone calls later this year, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal’s Ryan Knutson and Laura Stevens.

With Google Home's calling system, you can call any number in your Google Contacts, and even businesses too. However, you won't be able to place free calls to premium-rate or international numbers.

You can tell Google Home to display the phone number you’ve got tied to either Google Voice or Project Fi by going to the Assistant settings in your Google Home smartphone app for Android or iOS.