The 7 novelties that reach the Google Assistant

(Mountain View, special envoy) The Google badistant feeds the data to optimize its operation and offer more customizations. The information is the food of this virtual brain that keeps growing. With this in mind, the annual event organized by the Mountain View giant for developers, I / O, highlighted the development of new models of language comprehension and speech recognition.

These templates allow the wizard to run faster. The company claims that it is ten times faster than the previous generation and therefore offers a lower degree of latency. Part of this information processing occurs in the device, and thanks to this, a system could be developed, such as that of the real-time transcription (Live Caption), which works even when the mobile There is no connection.

During the event, there was a demonstration during which the system was asked to write an e-mail (differentiating the body of the message and its subject), including an attachment, and then to the e-mail. send to a particular recipient. Everything happened in thousandths of seconds and smoothly.

The wizard adds customization via the Personal References feature. In this way, you can identify the calendar contacts closest to the user or the most relevant ones. and also where the user goes frequently. All this is learned by the wizard according to the use made of the device.

Thus, one can ask the badistant for such things as "remember to send a welcome message to my sister on her birthday" or "what a weather it is in my parents' house" . Privacy and security being one of the big themes of the day, it was clarified that the user could delete, add or edit personal information in the Settings menu of the wizard.

4. Recommendation of recipes, events and podcasts

The badistant will begin to offer more and more personalized recommendations. A tool that will suggest events, podcasts and recipes based on the interests of the user will be added around the middle of the year.

For these recommendations, the system will take into account not only the searches made by the person, but also other contextual data such as the time at which the information is sought. So, during the morning, he will recommend recipes for breakfast and evening dinner recipes.

The badistant joined Google Maps a few months ago and will be integrated in the coming weeks in Waze. Thus, the badistant will offer help to the driver during his trip.

This new version of the wizard will first arrive on Pixel phones later this year, but no date has been specified.

The new driving mode of the wizard, as its name indicates, is meant to help the driver on the road. This mode will be activated automatically when the mobile phone is connected to the vehicle, by means of Bluetooth, or when the command is said: "Hey, Google, drive".

The badistant will suggest suggestions to the user. So, if there is a restaurant reservation, Maps will tell you how to get there. It will do it automatically. In the same way, he will continue to read the audio or the podcast listened to before getting into the car.

And if a call comes up while the user is driving, the badistant will ask the driver if he wants to accept it or not. In the driving mode, you can also set some remote problems, such as the temperature of the car, for example. You can also check the fuel level or if the doors are closed. The driving mode, which adopts and optimizes many features of Android Auto, will be available from mid-year on Android phones.

Duplex was one of the ads that most surprised the public in the Google I / O last year. A function of the badistant who can call by phone to make restaurant reservations or beauty salons. The most surprising? That the badistant sounds like he's a human: by the intonation, the doubts and even the breaks that he makes when he talks.

Duplex is available, for iOS and Android, in the United States. The novelty is that now arrives on the web. For example, Duplex, which responds to voice commands, can help the user fill out forms or make online purchases, making it easier to navigate multiple pages.

The user can ask the system something like "book a car for my next trip", and Duplex will check the web, complete the form and make the booking. All this is possible thanks to the data stored in Chrome and the travel information (flight, sites to visit) saved in Gmail.

Duplex on the Web will be available later this year (no specific date) in English, the United States and the United Kingdom. And it will only work on Android phones with the wizard. The service will work to compare movie tickets and rent vehicles online.