Google adds six new voices and John Legend to Assistant. Making the competition in Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered assistants space tougher, Google on Tuesday announced that people will soon have a choice of choosing from six voices, including one of musician John Legend, to talk to “Google Assistant”.
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Google adds six new voices
Not to be outdone by recent upgrades to Alexa and Siri, Google today announced that it’s adding not one, but six new voices to its Assistant offering.
At its annual developer conference Google I/O, the company said these six new voices options, which feature both male and female voices, would be rolled out later this year.
The new version of the assistant, which features both male and female six new voices, is built on a tech machine learning technology called Wavenet, which the company started building out some 18 months ago. Google’s working on rolling out a more customized version of the AI with custom dialects across the globe.
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Now instead of having to say “Hey Google” or “OK Google” every time to give a command, users only have to do this one time and then have a conversation with the Assistant.
Google calls this feature “continued conversation” and it’ll roll out in the coming week.
The new powerful Assistant can now distinguish between two sentences that are joined by “and” and can reply with two different query-specific answers in one go.
Google adds six new voices and John Legend to Assistant
The tech giant wants to bundle its voice assistant into every device and app and is bringing Google Assistant in Google Maps. It’ll be available on iOS and Android this summer.
Users can now share the estimated time of arrival with their contacts without touching the device.
Further, the Assistant would soon be able to make calls for you to make reservations at restaurants or salons.
It would also teach children to use polite language when interacting with Google Assistant’s “Pretty Please feature. When kids say “Please” during a command, they would receive thanks from the virtual assistant in response.
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Google says that “Pretty Please” feature would launch later this year.
The company also brought Assistant-powered Smart Displays. These devices would be launched in July.
Pichai also showcased a revamped Gmail and announced another new feature called “Smart Compose,” which will help users write emails using machine learning technology.
As you type, Smart Compose pops up suggestions about what you might want to write next – similar to Google autocomplete.
“As the name suggests, we use machine learning to start suggesting phrases for you. All you have to do is hit the tab to keep auto-completing. In this case, it understands the subject is ataco Tuesday.’ It takes care of mundane things like addresses so you can focus on what you want to type,” Pichai explained.
The feature would be rolled it out to all users this month.
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