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Google’s new Assistant Connect platform makes it easier for device makers to offer Assistant-powered experiences.
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Google Assistant gets new features on Android, and a new Interpreter Mode on Smart Displays.
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Google is bringing Assistant right into Google Maps.
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Google introduces a tiny new Smart Clock powered by Google Assistant to help you with your morning routine.
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In the near future of the Smart Home, you will be able to control anything with your voice. Assuming that everything supports the Smart Home standard you chose, that is. If you have a device that supports one of the other standards, you’ll end up uselessly yelling at it. Unless you use gBridge. As the name suggests, gBridge is a bridge between Google Assistant devices and the rest of the smart home universe. It’s an open source project that is available as a Docker image can be run on a low power device in the home, or on a hosted …read more
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There are over 100 million Amazon Alexa-powered devices out in the world. But there are ten times as many Google Assistant-powered devices.
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Google Assistant will soon be available on a billion devices, with number of active users growing 4x over the last year.
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Depending on who you talk to, Google Assistant is either a tool capable of quickly and clearly answering audio queries in natural langauge, or a noisier and less useful version of Wolfram Alpha. [William Franzin] decided it would be particularly cool to make the service available over ham radio – and that’s exactly what he did.
[William] got the idea for this project after first playing with the Internet Radio Linking Project, a system which uses VoIP technologies to link radio networks over the internet. Already having an IRLP node, it seemed only natural to make it into a gateway …read more
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It took a long time, but it’s 2018, and we’re starting to get used to the concept of talking to a computer to make it control things around the house. It’s not quite as cool as it seemed when we saw it in films way back when, but that’s just real life. The problem is, there’s a multitude of different systems and standards and they don’t all necessarily work together. In [Blake]’s case, the problem is that Woods brand hardware only works with Amazon Alexa, which simply won’t do.
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Google Assistant wins the Smart Speaker IQ Test, followed by Siri, Alexa, and Cortana.
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