9/12/2023 0 Comments Google keynote duplex demoSaying “Hey Google, let’s drive” will now shift Assistant into driving mode, a minimalist/at-a-glance dashboard view that focuses on what you might need while behind the wheel, like directions to your daily spots and music control. Google Assistant will be built into the Waze, and will be up “in just a few weeks,” allowing you to do things like report accidents or potholes by voice. Google says its next-gen Assistant will hit new Pixel phones later this year. The company showed off the new speed by firing off voice requests rapid fire, with very little delay between commands (like “Call me a Lyft” or “Turn on my flashlight”) and their resulting actions. As it’s running on the device, it’ll work even in airplane mode. Google has managed to shrink its voice recognition models down from hundreds of gigabytes to half a gigabyte, making them small enough to fit right on a phone.īy storing it locally, they’re able to eliminate the latency involved with the back-and-forth pings to the cloud, making conversations with Assistant almost instantaneous. It can pre-fill things like trip dates from your calendar, and car preferences based on previous rental confirmations found in your Gmail. Online car rental reservations were given as an example you say “get me a rental car through ”, and it pulls up that company’s website and automatically starts booking your car. This year it’ll expand on this by opening up Duplex to the web. Also with Lens, you can snap a photo of a sign in a foreign language and it will translate it to your chosen language.Īt I/O last year, Google launched Duplex, an AI-powered customer service tool meant to help small businesses (like restaurants and hair salons) field more phone calls, answering common questions and scheduling reservations or appointments. Point it at your receipt, and it’ll automatically calculate things like tips and totals. Point Google Lens at a restaurant’s menu, and it’ll highlight the most popular items. Google Lens is learning a few new tricks. Tap the model and you’ll be able to place it in a view of the real world via augmented reality. In a blog post on the feature, Google says “Face Match’s facial recognition is processed locally with on-device machine learning, so the camera data never leaves the device.”Ĭertain search results - like, say, a search for a specific shoe model, or “great white shark” - will now include 3D models. It’ll cost $229 and ship this summer.Ī new “Face Match” feature on the Nest Hub Max will recognize your face to customize its responses. Google says a hardware switch on the back disables the camera/microphone (alas, it doesn’t seem like you can disable one without disabling the other). The Nest Hub Max will tie into the Nest app, allowing it to function like any other Nest cam. Meanwhile, it’s getting a bigger brother: take the Nest Hub, bump the display up from 7″ to 10″ and add a camera - that’s the Nest Hub Max. The Google Home Hub is being rebranded as the “Nest Hub,” with the price dropping from $149 to $129. TechCrunch’s Brian Heater checked out the devices earlier this week. The Pixel 3a XL will start at $479, and bumps the screen up to 6.0″. The Pixel 3a will start at $399, and come with a 5.6″ display, 12.2mp rear camera and run Android P out of the box. On the upside, they found room for a 3.5mm headphone jack! To bring the price down, they’ve bumped the processor down a bit (from a Snapdragon 845 to a Snapdragon 670), capped storage at 64GB and dropped wireless charging capabilities. In a two-hour keynote at the annual Google I/O Conference this afternoon, the company announced a ton of stuff it’s been working on over the last year, from new phones to a next-gen version of its voice-powered Assistant.ĭon’t have time to watch it all? That’s okay - we summed up the biggest stuff for you.Īs rumored, Google is launching more affordable versions of its Pixel 3 phones.
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