The push to get Google Assistant on every device in your home has reached the lounge room as Android O helps Android TV finds its voice.

The AI-powered Google Assistant is Google's answer to the likes of Apple's Siri and Microsoft's Cortana, always at your beck and call to answer those tricky questions and help manage your life. Google Assistant is at the heart of the Google Home smart benchtop speaker, which is coming to Australia this year, but the search giant is determined to see its talkative assistant on as many devices as possible.

On the box

Google's smart TV platform is an obvious candidate for Google Assistant integration, considering your television is the home entertainment hub and often left switched on.

The integration of Google Assistant is part of Android TV's Android O upgrade which enhances Google's efforts to seamlessly weave free-to-air, recorded, subscription and streaming television into the one interface. The source of the content is irrelevant, the idea is to simply help you find something of interest and start watching as effortlessly as possible.

You can pin your favourite apps and sources to the top "My Apps" row of the home screen, underneath which is a Netflix-style "Watch Next" list and "Recommended" where all apps have the ability to place recommendations based on your tastes and recent viewing habits include programs you're in the middle of watching.

Content thumbnails are actually live video previews – not just playing the clip from the beginning but instead finding the actual trailer for that piece of content. When you click play you go directly to the content and start watching, rather than simply being dumped into that app.

Talk the talk

Sony offers one of the slickest Android TV implementations, which already has some great search features, but Google Assistant takes it to the next level. It won't be available on televisions for several months, so its developers offered a demo running on an Nvidia Shield at the recent Google I/O developer conference in Mountain View, California.

For starters Google Assistant allows Android TV to handle far more complex searches, with the contextual awareness to follow your chain of thought. For example "Find Winona Ryder on Jimmy Kimmel" calls up a list of YouTube clips of his show and you can simply say "play the first one" to listen to them discuss Stranger Things, rather than spelling out exactly what you want the television to do.

From here you can call up Google Assistant over the bottom of the screen, with a casual "Okay Google" and then ask "tell me about Stranger Things" followed by "how many episodes does it have?". At this point Google Assistant will start reading the answers aloud whilst displaying the details, all without disrupting the playback of the Jimmy Kimmel YouTube clip.

If you've decided that you're keen on the show then simply say "Okay Google, Play Stranger Things" and it will smoothly transition across to Netflix and start playing the first episode. It's an incredibly slick user experience when you consider how clunky it would be to go through all those steps in your average lounge room.

Sit back

Of course another advantage of having Google Assistant in your television is that you can talk to it like Google Home, asking it to dim the lights, pause the music in the next room and order you a pizza delivery while you sit back to watch the first episode. If you remember that you're supposed to be somewhere else, Google Assistant on the television can check traffic conditions and travel times to see if you can afford to spend a few more minutes on the couch.

One disappointment is that Google Assistant on Android TV can't yet recognise different voices but it's coming and this will certainly take the personalised Android lounge room experience to the next level.

How smart is your lounge room and how would you put Google Assistant to good use on your television?

Adam Turner travelled to the Google I/O conference in California as a guest of Google.