Like many great players in the technology sector, Google puts the packet on artificial intelligence, for which it envisages a field of ever wider applications, starting with new products unveiled Wednesday, May 18 at its annual conference Developer (I / O) in Mountain View, California. A brief overview of the major announcements of the Alphabet subsidiary.
- Google home, a new device connected to the home
Google home is positioned as a competitor to Echo, a device that Amazon launched late 2014 and combines a speaker and a personal assistant voice-controlled, able to answer questions or to control objects connected in the house .
Echo has the appearance of a vertical black cylinder. Google Home also has quite a cylindrical shape, but the user can choose the color of the rounded base to match its interior.
As Echo, Google Home aims to become “a control center for your entire home, “assured Mario Queiroz, vice president of Google. It can play music, including simultaneously in several rooms, control objects connected to turn off or turn on the light …
The integration of “Google assistant” also allows him to interact with the user, with the possible extension of these interactions in the real world. For example, asking him to check a travel itinerary, allowing him to report that the flight is delayed; then ask him accordingly to change the time of booking for dinner after landing.
- Hello and Duo, two new messaging applications
the same artificial intelligence technologies are also embedded in Allo application, allowing it to move beyond the traditional exchange of text or photos of the many services already on the market.
This allows the user to suggest several possible answers to the last message received, on which there is to type or not to accept an invitation to dinner, but also comment photos with proposals like “yum clams” after a picture of a dish with this ingredient.
“this is possible only because we have married our strength in visual recognition and language comprehension natural by the computer, “commented Erik Kay, an engineer from Google.
Rather than a real interlocutor, Allo may also allow for dialogue with” Google assistant “, and further features an “incognito” mode enhanced security, where messages are encrypted and can be set an expiration date for example.
the second application submitted Wednesday called “Duo”, allows two people to communicate in video from their mobile device. Google highlights its ease of use, but also a feature called “knock knock” ( “Knock knock” in French) allowing the user even before accepting a call to already see the live video of the person seeking to contact him.
both applications will be available this summer, and compatible with the mobile operating system house of Google, Android, used by a number of smartphone manufacturers in the world, as well as with iOS, the software Apple competitor that makes such work
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