Google wasn’t the first one to build digital assistant, but it did better than anyone else. Google Assistant has been unveiled at its annual Google I/O developer conference in May 2016. It’s considered as an upgrade or an extension of Google Now. And below are top features of Google Assistant that you should know.
Subscriptions are no more than just a click
“What’s the weather like today?” or “What are the latest sports news?”. You guys definitely ask those kinds of simple questions from Google Now. Google Assistant takes things one step further with subscriptions. For example, instead of asking weather forecast everyday, you just need to subscribe to weather updates and Google Assistant will send you information automatically. Besides, you can select the time frame that you want to receive news. You can also manage your subscriptions by telling Google Assistant “Show active subscriptions.”
Assisting every conversation
Throughout all the conversations, no matter you are talking to a friend or to Google Assistant, you will be given responses from Google Assistant based on the text you receive, or even the emoji and images. Assistant can also support the conversations in another way. By summoning @google, it can give you contextual clues if you’re planning for a movie, a dinner, event, or trip, and help you check different options together with your friends.
No internet connection, no problem
Anyone of us must encounter no internet connection situation which makes us infuriating at times. But with Google Assistant, solutions are given. It doesn’t need to be instantaneous nor does it need an internet connection to work. This means that you can type a message to Assistant when you’re offline, you can send an Assistant query and let it process in the background while you switch to another app, then get notified when it has an answer for you.
Smarter images recognition
You can send photos to Google Assistant by two ways. First is taking picture within your chat, or sending existing images. Similar to Google Photos, Google Assistant uses algorithms to detect what’s going on in the picture. And to top it all off, Google Assistant can read QR codes, if you’re into that sort of thing.
Other notable support from our new assistant
If you are bored and have nothing to do. Google Assistant is right here to offer you a wide choices, Just say “play a game”, and you’ll be able to choose from chat games, quiz games, doodle games and classic games. There are also quizzes about math and geography and entertainment, PAC-MAN, and even a full blown Rubik’s Cube to solve.
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