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Google announces Assistant, personal digital assistant

Google continues the evolution of Google Search, announcing "Google Assistant" a personal digital assistant, similar to Apple's Siri and Cortana Microsoft. The official announcement was made at the Google I / O 2016 and although the details provided at the time are still quite scarce, there is a clear desire to integrate Assistant in the whole ecosystem of the products of the Mountain View home.

Google Assistant will be present in the Android smartphone, the Android Wear smartwatch, in infotainment systems based on Android Auto and smart home systems thanks to Google Home, a device announced at the conference that comes into direct competition with the Echo device Amazon , powered by Alexa (digital assistant developed by the e-commerce giant).

Assistant will not only provide the results of research on the basis of user-used tags, but will operate proactively, or anticipating future requests based on the questions asked, and will be able to provide correct answers, taking into account the context in which they were advanced.

The user can interact with Assistant by following a structured dialogue scheme on similar models to the traditional colloquial conversation, as well as with the most advanced personal digital assistants. The Google Assistant interface is always very clean and basic, such as Google Search, but the functionality, as mentioned, will be much more advanced.

Google presents as follows the new voice assistant:

The assistant converse with 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. Simplifies the purchase of movie tickets while you're on the street, is the perfect restaurant for a snack on the fly with your family before the start of the show and helps you in navigating to the cinema. It 'a Google everything for you.

The server works seamlessly on any device and in any context. So you can consult Google from anywhere and at any time. All this is possible thanks to the investments made by Google in recent years to understand in depth the questions asked by users. Today we showed a preview of two products in which you can enjoy all the features Google server.

The service provided by Google Assistant can be used both in "stand-alone" mode is integrated into the app. On the Google I / O stage I was presented Allo, an app that ricorrre Google Assistant to manage the messaging features.


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