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There are a lot of chat messaging apps in your Play Store, or App Store and developers have to come up with something different to entice people to download a particular chat app. Google might have just done that with the launch of its private chat app Allo. Express yourself better with stickers, Smart Reply, and HUGE emojis & text. Stickers in Google Allo are designed by independent artists and studios from around the world.
Google previously said that Allo will only store messages transiently and in non-identifiable form, however, the version of Allo that has been released today stores all non-incognito messages by default. “So we created Allo, a messaging app that helps you keep your conversation going, by providing assistance when you need it”.
The app has a feature called “Smart Replies” through which the app will suggest you words or phrases that you can reply in a conversation.
Allo will also mark the debut of Google Assistant, an intelligent chat AI that brings Google’s services to your conversations in a preview edition. The app even can give you suggestions to give a response to photos as Google has put in photo recognition feature in the app as well. Find restaurants nearby, share videos to watch, and get answers, right in your conversation with friends.
Allo represents the latest venture for the artificial intelligence powered Google Assistant.
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Currently, both Smart Reply and Google Assistant are in English-only, with “more languages coming soon”. The only remedy users have here is to simply use Incognito Mode all the time which remains end-to-end encrypted and unchanged from how it was first presented at Google I/O 2016. However, “the app will be live worldwide in the next few days”, the company says.
