Surprise skills of your smart speaker Surprise skills of your smart speaker The experts at Consumer Reports have some tips to help you enlist your smart speaker as your home’s very own personal assistant. What can play music, secure your home, organize your household, get you in shape, and help you cook? It’s that smart speaker—maybe the Amazon Echo, Google Home, or Nest—that you received for the holidays. Don’t think your new speaker is smarter than you. The experts at Consumer Reports have some tips to help you enlist your smart speaker as your home’s very own personal assistant.