Google wants to trick you into thinking machines are human. That’s a theme the tech titan pushed as it rolled out new features for its Google Assistant voice software at Google I/O, Google’s annual conference for developers. Google Assistant is in nearly every Android phone, the Google Home smart speaker and drives future smart displays, …
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Google I/O, the Big G’s annual developer conference, crammed in a mind-boggling number of demos and announcements to show off advancements in everything that the tech behemoth touches. These are the changes that’ll you’ll use every day on your phone, your work and your home. The most important updates come to Google Assistant, Android, Google Maps and AR. Now …
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Microsoft Build 2018 started Tuesday and is still ongoing, but now Google is competing for your future attention with its own annual Google I/O developers conference. Unlike the hardware-centric announcements of last October, I/O focuses mostly on software and how to to get the most out of those devices. Before the conference started, Google announced it had rebranded its Google …
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On this podcast, we talk about: Google’s experimental Duplex technology that empowers Assistant to make calls on your behalf to book appointments or make reservations, with a shockingly realistic pattern of speech. Google Home’s new continued conversation setting, which may end the days of parroting “Hey, Google” when you want to keep asking questions. Android P‘s measures to help you …
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Odds are, the next big wave of Google smartwatches are coming later this year. In the meantime, Google’s updating Wear OS (formerly Android Wear) with a few key upgrades. In addition to a better on-board Google Assistant, Google’s added battery-saving functions to the new developer build of Wear OS, the company announced Wednesday. The key parts of that involve re-enabling …
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If a new Apple Watch debuts this fall, Google is likely to have a major new smartwatch (or watches) debuting right alongside it, powered by Qualcomm chips. Pankaj Kedia, senior director and business lead for Qualcomm’s Smart Wearables Segment, said as much yesterday in a story reported by Wareable. But I sat down at Google’s I/O developers conference with Kedia and …
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Tuesday, at the I/O 2018 conference, Google announced that users would soon be able to choose among six new voices, including the voice of John Legend. These new voices are powered by WaveNet, an AI-based voice synthesizer created by DeepMind, a subsidiary of Google UK. Now playing: Watch this: Give Google Assistant a new voice 1:41 WaveNet lets Google simulate entire …
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Feeling hungry? Pretty soon, you’ll be able to order dinner using Google Assistant on your Android phone. Now playing: Watch this: Google Assistant gets food ordering and delivery 1:03 Changes to the Google Assistant software, which is integrated into nearly all Android phones, will make it possible to order food for pickup and delivery. It will even remember what you …
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Goodbye, Google-robo-Assistant. Hello, John Legend. You’ll now be able to choose among six new voices for Google Assistant for your Android phone or Google Home, Google announced at its annual I/O conference within spitting distance of its headquarters in Mountain View, California. A seventh one, planned for a later release, happens to be celebrity singer John Legend. Now playing: Watch this: John …
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Google I/O, the search giant’s annual developer’s conference, kicked off today at 10 a.m. PT. Here’s everything Google announced at the keynote. Here are some other notable Google I/O announcements from today: Google’s Duplex could make Assistant the most lifelike AI yet 3 ways Google Maps just got better Android P will give Android gestures like the iPhone X Get …
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