Google Assistant is Getting Smarter and More Personal

Google Assistant is getting smarter and more personal, with new features that make it even more convenient to use. One of the coolest things about Google Assistant is its ability to offer directions and recipes tailored specifically for you. For example, if you ask Google "show me recipes for dinner," it will show you a list of options based on your personal preferences. If you've made barbecue before, it will suggest bourbon chicken as an option. Google uses voice match to make these recommendations, so if someone else asks the same questions, they'll get different results based on their own preferences.

Google Assistant also recognizes your voice and uses that information to provide personalized recommendations. For example, if you ask "hey Google what's the weather like at Mom's house this weekend," it will pull up information for your mom from your address book. You can even tell Google who your relatives are and organize information about them using the Google Home and Google Assistant apps.

In addition to personalization, Google Assistant has a new driving mode that you can activate with your voice or with a tap. This mode pulls up the most relevant information you'll need while driving, such as navigating somewhere, talking to someone on the phone, or listening to music or podcasts. It will even suggest things based on your listening history and play music from any of the apps that Google Assistant can sync to. Once you get going, it will keep that information at the bottom of the screen while showing the driving directions front and center.

Google Maps will also be integrated with this new driving mode, and Waze integration is coming soon. This means that when you ask Google for directions, it will provide personalized recommendations based on your calendar, missed calls, and listening history. The tech won't actually roll out to customers until later this summer, but it's sure to be a game-changer.

The biggest change to Google Assistant, however, is its speed. According to Google, the next generation of Google assistant is 10 times faster than the current gen. This is due to streamlining the process so that it can all fit on your phone. When you ask a question, it no longer has to go up to the cloud to get the answer and come back down. It just knows what you said and can pop out a response right there.

This new speed is thanks to Google's focus on making the assistant more convenient and easier to use. You'll be able to easily change your privacy settings to opt out of features if you don't like them, and you'll be able to go back and delete your activity history at any time. The result will be a digital assistant that knows even more about you and your family than before, but also one that is faster and more convenient to use.

Google started showing off the next generation of Google Assistant with demos of its new features. For example, it showed how you can ask "hey Google open calendar" or "show me John Legend on Twitter." These are just a few examples of what's possible with this new assistant, but they give you an idea of just how powerful and convenient it will be. Overall, Google Assistant is getting smarter and more personal, and it's sure to change the way we interact with technology in our daily lives.

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recommendations so if someone else asks the same questions they'll get different results based on their preferences so we can also personalize information based on the contacts in your address book hey Google what's the weather like at Mom's house this weekend and it's gonna know who my mom is it's gonna pull that information for my address book I can tell it who my mom is and then it can customize that for any of your relatives your sisters your friends that you can organize a lot of that using the Google home and Google assistant apps you can also ask questions like what's the traffic like to my mom's house this is all a demo of course the tech won't actually be rolling out to customers till later this summer and that's not actually where my mom lives Google assistant also has a new driving mode that you can activate with your voice or with a tap it pulls up the most relevant information you're gonna want to see while in the car whether that's navigating somewhere or talking to someone on the phone or listening to music or podcasts it'll personalized recommendations for you about where you might need to navigate based on what's on your calendar or who to call based on your own missed calls and it will suggest things based on your listening history and it can play music from any of the apps that Google assistant can sync to and then once you get going playing music or making a call it'll keep that information at the bottom of the screen while showing the driving directions front and center that's gonna be on Google Maps to start with Waze integration coming in the future so while all of this personalization stuff is real cool the biggest change to Google assistant is much simpler Google started showing off the next generation of Google assistant and supposedly it is 10 times faster than the current gen hey Google open calendar open calculator open photos the way they did that is by streamlining the process so that it can all fit on your phone so in other words when you ask a question it no longer has to go up to the cloud to get the answer to come back down it just knows what you said and can pop out a response right there what's the weather today what about tomorrow show me John Legend on Twitter so a digital assistant that knows that much more about you and your family and is that much faster could be a little bit scary but Google's actually saying the right things on this front you'll be able to easily change your privacy settings to opt out of these features if you don't like them you'll be able to go back and delete your activity history and at the very least this stuff will make the Google assistant more convenient and easier to use youat Google i/o Google assistant is getting smarter and it's also getting more personal it'll be able to offer directions and recipes tailored specifically for you it also has a few cool other tricks watch this hey Google setting timer for five seconds sure five seconds starting now normally to get it to to anything you have to use the wait words but when the timer goes off stop no wait words necessary so let's take a look at some of that personalization hey Google show me recipes for dinner so Google smart displays has always been pretty good at walking you through recipes step by step but now the ones they actually show you depend on your personal preferences it recognizes my voice and it uses the assistant to know what I've made in the past what my preferences are if I'm vegetarian and it'll sort the results based on that information so it's popping bourbon chicken because it says you've made barbecue before Google uses voice match to make these recommendations so if someone else asks the same questions they'll get different results based on their preferences so we can also personalize information based on the contacts in your address book hey Google what's the weather like at Mom's house this weekend and it's gonna know who my mom is it's gonna pull that information for my address book I can tell it who my mom is and then it can customize that for any of your relatives your sisters your friends that you can organize a lot of that using the Google home and Google assistant apps you can also ask questions like what's the traffic like to my mom's house this is all a demo of course the tech won't actually be rolling out to customers till later this summer and that's not actually where my mom lives Google assistant also has a new driving mode that you can activate with your voice or with a tap it pulls up the most relevant information you're gonna want to see while in the car whether that's navigating somewhere or talking to someone on the phone or listening to music or podcasts it'll personalized recommendations for you about where you might need to navigate based on what's on your calendar or who to call based on your own missed calls and it will suggest things based on your listening history and it can play music from any of the apps that Google assistant can sync to and then once you get going playing music or making a call it'll keep that information at the bottom of the screen while showing the driving directions front and center that's gonna be on Google Maps to start with Waze integration coming in the future so while all of this personalization stuff is real cool the biggest change to Google assistant is much simpler Google started showing off the next generation of Google assistant and supposedly it is 10 times faster than the current gen hey Google open calendar open calculator open photos the way they did that is by streamlining the process so that it can all fit on your phone so in other words when you ask a question it no longer has to go up to the cloud to get the answer to come back down it just knows what you said and can pop out a response right there what's the weather today what about tomorrow show me John Legend on Twitter so a digital assistant that knows that much more about you and your family and is that much faster could be a little bit scary but Google's actually saying the right things on this front you'll be able to easily change your privacy settings to opt out of these features if you don't like them you'll be able to go back and delete your activity history and at the very least this stuff will make the Google assistant more convenient and easier to use you\n"