Such a device would represent Google’s response to the growing popularity of Amazon’s Echo, a cylinder-like device equipped with speakers and an Internet-connected microphone that enables a virtual assistant called Alexa to interact with its users.
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Chirp is expected to be a direct competitor to Amazon’s Echo, which is a portable speaker that uses voice assistant technology named Alexa to carry out tasks such as answering questions, providing weather and traffic reports, controlling lights, reading audio books, and even ordering pizza. Google just announced an Amazon Echo clone.
Google Now on Android-powered devices lets you trigger certain activities, like setting an alarm, executing web searches, launching apps, and more.
Pichai told the 7,000 developers present at Shoreline Amphitheater that the company was working hard on natural language processing, giving examples of how Google’s search engine can understand context. In the demo video, Google showed the dad asking Home how his commute to work looks and the device said there’s an accident along the rout.
Google home will be unveiled in an events to be held tomorrow by Google. For instance, a person can ask “Who directed ‘The Revenant?'” and learned it was Alejandro González Iñárritu.
More specific details regarding Google Home are unclear at this point.
Google also explained they’ve seen a 25% improvement in voice searching thanks to a change in the way they train their voice algorithms. At any rate, it will be a key component of Google’s assistant ecosystem and evidence suggests there’s more to come.
The small device will have a white top and a customized bottom, with consumers choosing their own color to blend it in with their home. Google CEO Sundar Pichai echoed that sentiment during his keynote: “We think of Google Assistant as an ambient experience that extends across devices”.
Allo also allows for “incognito” chats that are encrypted end-to-end and users can have messages self-destruct after specified amounts of time.
Already 20 percent of queries on Google’s mobile app and Android phones are voice queries – people saying “OK Google” to summon an older assistant called Google Now.
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A big step forward for Google Cast The latter works because Google Home is based on Google Cast, the technology that also powers Google’s popular Chromecast streaming adapter.
