Google made it clear it was playing catch-up. Through Chromecast, a dongle-like digital media player, Google Home supports multiroom playback and connects to the television to play music, movies or YouTube videos. Compared with Amazon Echo, Google Home is smaller and more customizable, with the bottom base shell available in different colors and materials. Google Assistant's technology is built into a home speaker and receiver called Google Home and its newest messaging app, called Allo. "For follow-up queries, we are an order of magnitude ahead of everyone else." "I believe we are at a seminal moment," said Pinchai. Pinchai said this will allow users to ask about the soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo and then continue with "What are his best moves?"-without explicitly restating the subject in question. Unlike Siri and Cortana, Google Assistant can understand follow-up questions. Pinchai said Google Assistant stands out from its predecessors such as Google Now and its competitors such as Apple's Siri or Microsoft's Cortana. Pinchai focused on two big themes, which are also buzzwords for the rest of the industry: machine learning and encryption.Ĭonsidered the industry front-runner in machine learning technologies, in which programs organically learn without explicit programming from humans, Google announced a new virtual assistant called, blandly, Google Assistant. In a two-hour-long keynote speech, CEO Sundar Pinchai addressed Google employees, journalists and a massive web audience on a sunny Wednesday morning. In the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, an outdoor concert hall across the street from Google's campus, the company announced a voice-activated home speaker and a messaging app featuring artificial intelligence technology, as well as a new Android phone. Google played defense in this year's I/O developer conference, and its biggest announcements seemed like reactions to the progress its competitors at Amazon, Facebook and Apple made in the past year.
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