With the Google Pixel Buds, your Assistant can give you updates on your daily itinerary, recent messages, emails, or calendar events without you having to look at your phone.
Note: Notifications must be enabled in the Assistant settings menu in order for this feature to work. You will also need to grant the Google app access to your notifications. Notifications may not work with all apps.
Spoken Notifications
When you are wearing your Pixel Buds, the Google Assistant will tell you when you have a notification as the phone receives them. For important notifications, a chime will play and a summary of the notification will be read.
You can choose to hear the full message by double tapping the right earbud. If you don't take action on a notification, your Assistant will temporarily play a chime for subsequent messages from the same sender and not read the summaries.
Getting Notifications
To hear notifications, simply double tap the right earbud. Your Assistant will then read the notifications you may have missed within the last hour. You can choose to stop your Assistant at any time by double tapping the right earbud.
Replying to Notifications
To reply to a text notification, wait for your Assistant to finish reading you the message, then touch and hold the right earbud when prompted and begin speaking.
Note: Google Pixel Buds do not currently support replying to SMS text messages.
Examples of important notifications
Messages
You Assistant will read your latest messages back to you and prompt you to respond if you'd like.
Emails
If you're too busy to sit and sift through your recent emails, your Assistant will read them to you while you're on the go.
Calendar Events
If a meeting or an event on your calendar gets rescheduled, your Assistant will let you know so you can arrive right on time.
Traffic Updates
Your Assistant will notify you of any accidents or detours that may extend your usual commute so you can plan accordingly.
Flight Changes
If you're in a hurry to make your flight, your Assistant will inform you of any changes made to your departure time.
Configuring Notifications
To manage your spoken notifications, navigate to your Pixel Buds settings by opening your Assistant.
To open your Assistant, press and hold the home button on your Android phone.
With your Assistant open, tap 
You will then be able to move the "Spoken notifications" slider to the right to enable spoken notifications
Enabling Notifications after initial setup
If you didn't enable notifications from the Google app in the initial setup, you can do so by navigating to Android settings.
To do so, open Android Settings
You will then be able to move the slider to the right to allow Google Notification Access.