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Is there a way to capture (if it's not already stored) text search responses that Google Home receives before 'speaking' them out?

For example:

Me: When was Diego Velázquez born?
Google Home: Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was born in 1599

I would like to capture that text string (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was born in 1599).

Is this possible in any way by putting Google Home into some sort of dev mode?

I was specifically interested in doing this on Google Home (rather than just Google Voice) as I've heard that the search results may differ.

Lloyd Jones
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Right now there is no programmatic way using Actions on Google. You can see all of your activity with the Google Assistant on your activity page.

If you were to use the Google Assistant SDK, you could receive an audio response from the Google Assistant, but it would not get you the text output as well.

Nick Felker
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  • Thanks for the response! Using the Google Assistant SDK wouldn't give the _exact_ response that Google Home would give though(?) – I've heard that Google Assistant's responses sometimes differ to those of the Google Home device. – Lloyd Jones Nov 29 '17 at 19:27
  • Yes there's a few cases that are slightly different. The SDK doesn't do phone calls, media playback, and may answer a few things differently, but for most use cases, weather, time, personal results, it should be the same. – Nick Felker Nov 29 '17 at 21:51
  • Interesting! Do you know if Google search results would be the same? – Lloyd Jones Nov 30 '17 at 18:43
  • I've followed up with the Google Assistant team on this, and the SDK is apparently only for creating custom actions – It can't be used for interacting with in-built ones. – Lloyd Jones Dec 05 '17 at 18:47
  • There's a difference between 'Actions on Google' and the 'Google Assistant SDK'. – Nick Felker Dec 05 '17 at 22:37
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Only get info of your activities on google... if only your request is possible though...

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