Smartphone, our voice: Google wants to talk to us – The Republic

The ERA of touch already seems prehistoric. They had anticipated the voice assistants like Siri or Cortana. Google confirms it now: only comanderemo with voice. And is the rumor that the Mountain View company entrusts the most important task, to ferry the mobile phone to the commands that do not involve any physical effort live and artificial intelligence. If Home, the new server launched by the developer conference of Big G, will be the centerpiece of our house, there will also be a new generation of smartphones in our pockets, ready to accept input that will move things as we wish.

“The assistant talks to you, it is a dialogue in two voices between you and Google, you see the world around you and helps you do what you need. It simplifies the purchase of movie tickets while you are for road, is an ideal restaurant for a snack on the fly with your family before you start the show and helps in navigating to the cinema. it’s a Google everything for you. ” This is the scenario that is emerging from the Google I / O, and, although many of the technologies presented on the stage of the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View are not yet on the market (and it will be perhaps for a few years), the road now it is plotted. It is ” vaporware ”, admits analyst Gartner Brian Blau speaking to the Financial Times of random projects, but not impossible. The ones that will change our habits.

We will talk with Home to check the house, Home will talk to the device to manage it. The evolution of the relationship with the technological objects that surround us presupposes the use of a personal assistant

also planned to offer textual suggestions based on context, if necessary also using emoji, stickers and photos. In other words, it means that Google will be able to understand the message sent by our interlocutor and to propose a customized solution based on our prior. So what it seems nothing more than a vessel, as HAL 9000 ” Odyssey ” space, will use all his intelligence to provide adequate answers, which also pass through the smartphone. For this, Google is also focusing on the development of Android, the software which is currently used by 80% of mobile phones.

The challenge can only turn to Facebook and Amazon. The other ground on which it moves the Californian company, not surprisingly, is that of the chat At that integrates video calls thanks to another app combined, which is called Duo. Both will arrive during the summer on both Android platform is on iOS. Also expected at the ‘Incognito’ mode that makes the encrypted chat, but also offers private notifications and the ability to chat “disposable”, in Snapchat style. “At the more you use and the answers will be personalized,” emphasizes Big G to understand the system of the answers ‘smart’ that also work with photos. It will be more and more real the possibility of using full smartphone even with your hands full.

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