Here are the coming Assistant updates that have been spotted at I/O 2017, from free Google Home phone calls and a standalone Google Assistant iPhone app to an App Directory and payments for Google Assistant voice apps.
That number is likely to rise when Google Assistant becomes available on Android phones in Portuguese, Japanese, German, and French.
In addition to being available on Pixel smartphones and Google Home, Google Assistant came to iPhones today and to Android phones earlier this year.
Google Assistant launches App Directory
The Google Assistant App Directory will showcase apps that interact with the Google Assistant. Users can access the app directory with a single tap from the Google Assistant. It not only has categories and user ratings, it also allows users to try your app right from the directory.Users can also create their own shortcuts to apps.
Google Home devices will be getting the ability to make free phone calls within the United States.
In the past week, Microsoft and Amazon had declared intentions to bring calls to their smart speaker devices for Alexa and Cortana.
“You can call any landline or mobile phone in the U.S. or Canada completely free, and it’s all done in a hands-free way,” said Google Home VP Rishi Chandra.
Google Home can now add events to your calendar and type messages directly to Google Assistant instead of relying only on talk.
Both of these features were requested by users almost immediately after Google Assistant on Google Home became available last fall.
The ability for Google Assistant searches to generate visual responses, Abrams said, will allow developers to “build apps for entirely new Assistant use cases, things that previously weren’t well suited to having voice-only interface, such as shopping for clothes or ordering food from a lengthy menu.”
This new feature is expected out later this year. The Actions on Google platform for the creation of voice apps will be available outside the U.S. later this year as it expands to France, Canada, Australia, Germany, and Japan.
Virtually all emphasis for Google Assistant in its first year was on voice as an interface, but with the new Lens service launch today, Google will bring computer vision to its assistant.
Open the camera with Google Assistant and point at a business, flower, or object, and Lens will attempt to identify what it’s looking at.
When held up to a theatre marquee during the keynote, for example, Lens on Google Assistant was able to recognize the words on the marquee and then tell you how to buy a ticket or add the event to your calendar. If you take a screenshot of a phone number, just tap it inside Google Assistant to make a call.
Lens will be available initially for Google Assistant and Google Photos and will be integrated into other Google products in the future.
Until today, Google Assistant actions could only be interacted with on Google Home. As was mentioned earlier, the Google Assistant third-party ecosystem of voice apps is still relatively new, with roughly 250 actions. That’s a far cry from the more than 13,000 in the Alexa Skills Store.
All devices that use the Google Assistant software development kit (SDK) will be able to speak with Google Assistant actions in the future, Abrams said.
Peer-to-peer payments are also on the way for Google Assistant, so you can send a friend or family money, not just businesses.
Author : Prashant Pandey
Google Assistant now on 100 million devices
That number is likely to rise when Google Assistant becomes available on Android phones in Portuguese, Japanese, German, and French.
In addition to being available on Pixel smartphones and Google Home, Google Assistant came to iPhones today and to Android phones earlier this year.
Google Assistant launches App Directory
The Google Assistant App Directory will showcase apps that interact with the Google Assistant. Users can access the app directory with a single tap from the Google Assistant. It not only has categories and user ratings, it also allows users to try your app right from the directory.Users can also create their own shortcuts to apps.
Since the Action on Google platform opened to developers last December, roughly 250 Google Assistant actions have been created by third-party developers.
A standalone Google Assistant app will be rolled out for the iPhone, Google announced today. Until now, Google Assistant has been available through the Allo chat app.
In February, Google Assistant was made available for Android devices with Marshmallow or Nougat installed. Altogether, Google Assistant can now be found in 100 million devices.
Google Assistant app for iPhone
A standalone Google Assistant app will be rolled out for the iPhone, Google announced today. Until now, Google Assistant has been available through the Allo chat app.
In February, Google Assistant was made available for Android devices with Marshmallow or Nougat installed. Altogether, Google Assistant can now be found in 100 million devices.
Google Home phone calls
Google Home devices will be getting the ability to make free phone calls within the United States.
In the past week, Microsoft and Amazon had declared intentions to bring calls to their smart speaker devices for Alexa and Cortana.
“You can call any landline or mobile phone in the U.S. or Canada completely free, and it’s all done in a hands-free way,” said Google Home VP Rishi Chandra.
Add events to calendar and type messages to Google Assistant
Google Home can now add events to your calendar and type messages directly to Google Assistant instead of relying only on talk.
Both of these features were requested by users almost immediately after Google Assistant on Google Home became available last fall.
Visual responses from Google Assistant on TV with Chromecast
The ability for Google Assistant searches to generate visual responses, Abrams said, will allow developers to “build apps for entirely new Assistant use cases, things that previously weren’t well suited to having voice-only interface, such as shopping for clothes or ordering food from a lengthy menu.”
This new feature is expected out later this year. The Actions on Google platform for the creation of voice apps will be available outside the U.S. later this year as it expands to France, Canada, Australia, Germany, and Japan.
Google Lens for computer vision in the world
Virtually all emphasis for Google Assistant in its first year was on voice as an interface, but with the new Lens service launch today, Google will bring computer vision to its assistant.
Open the camera with Google Assistant and point at a business, flower, or object, and Lens will attempt to identify what it’s looking at.
When held up to a theatre marquee during the keynote, for example, Lens on Google Assistant was able to recognize the words on the marquee and then tell you how to buy a ticket or add the event to your calendar. If you take a screenshot of a phone number, just tap it inside Google Assistant to make a call.
Lens will be available initially for Google Assistant and Google Photos and will be integrated into other Google products in the future.
Google Assistant actions for Android and iPhone
Until today, Google Assistant actions could only be interacted with on Google Home. As was mentioned earlier, the Google Assistant third-party ecosystem of voice apps is still relatively new, with roughly 250 actions. That’s a far cry from the more than 13,000 in the Alexa Skills Store.
All devices that use the Google Assistant software development kit (SDK) will be able to speak with Google Assistant actions in the future, Abrams said.
Native payments for Google Assistant actions
For payments you can choose to use Google facilitated payments, which are easy to integrate, allow you to leverage hundreds of millions of cards that users have already stored with Google, and are available to developers for free, or you can choose to use a payment method that users have already provided you.
Payments on Google Assistant will have a dedicated area to allow users to track orders, modify an order, or place a new order.Peer-to-peer payments are also on the way for Google Assistant, so you can send a friend or family money, not just businesses.
Author : Prashant Pandey
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