San Francisco: Competing with the likes of Alexa-powered Amazon, retail giant Walmart is now adding a voice-controlled shopping feature called “Walmart Voice Order” on Google Assistant. To use the feature, users are required to add and link their existing Walmart accounts to Google Assistant which will enable them to shop[Read More…]
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Google Assistant beats Amazon Alexa, even for online shopping
San Francisco, Despite Amazon Alexa being more popular globally, Google Assistant has outperformed her — and other voice assistants like Apple Siri — in a test meant to understand the effectiveness of smart speakers. In the 2018 edition of “Smart Speaker IQ Test” by research-driven venture capital firm Loup Ventures,[Read More…]
Google Assistant to soon predict flight delays on smartphones through Machine Learning
San Francisco, Using flight status data combined with Machine Learning (ML), Google Assistant will soon tell you over phone if your flight would be delayed even before the airline announces it. According to Google, Assistant will notify users on phones when its algorithms predict that their flights would be late.[Read More…]
Google Assistant’s latest feature reads ‘good news’
To brighten up your day as you wade through a sea of bad news, Google Assistant will now deliver curated good news – stories about people who are solving real-life problems across the world. “Tell me something good” is a new experimental feature, currently available for Assistant users in the US. Just say “Hey Google, tell me[Read More…]
Namaste! Google Assistant now available in Hindi
New Delhi: Google on Thursday rolled out Hindi support for its virtual assistant Google. The Assistant in Hindi will be available on Android phones 6.0+ (Marshmallow and above) and will soon come to Android 5.0 Lollipop, iPhones as well as Android Oreo (Go edition) devices. Google Assistant is already available in[Read More…]
Hindi support coming to Google Assistant soon
San Francisco: Google Assistant is set to get smarter as the company makes it ready to be multilingual and be available in more than 30 languages, including Hindi, by the end of this year. The search engine giant’s digital assistant will be able to respond by text in Hindi, Danish, Dutch,[Read More…]