Tag: Google Assistant

Google Assistant can now auto-update breached passwords
Google Assistant can now auto-update breached passwords

With this update, users will be prompted as soon as they log into a site with a password that has been compromised. The dialogue box will have a big Assistant-branded "Change automatically" button, as shared by Android Police's Max Weinbach.

  • Sunday, 08 May 2022
Google Assistant's Guest Mode To Support More Languages, Including Hindi
Google Assistant's Guest Mode To Support More Languages, Including Hindi

Currently, the feature's language support is limited to English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Japanese and Korean.

  • Sunday, 13 February 2022
Google starts rolling out 'Call Screen' feature for Pixel smartphones

San Francisco: Google has started rolling out a feature for its Pixel smartphones that lets users make use of the Google Assistant to see who is calling and why before they answer a call. The feature allows users to see a real-time transcript of how the caller responds so that they can then decide whether […]

  • Friday, 09 July 2021
Google Assistant to now answer Airtel-related queries

New Delhi: Bharti Airtel on Monday announced that its customers will be able to interact with customer care through Google Assistant. Currently available in English, the feature will also be rolled out in regional languages to deliver a personalised experience to millions of smartphone users, the company said in a statement. Airtel will track what […]

  • Thursday, 08 July 2021
Google Assistant gets six new voices

San Francisco: Making the competition in Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered assistants space tougher, Google on Tuesday announced that people will soon have a choice of choosing from six voices, including one of musician John Legend, to talk to “Google Assistant.” At its annual developer conference Google I/O, the company said these six options, which feature both […]

  • Wednesday, 07 July 2021
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You can buy movie tickets with Google Assistant

San Francisco: Google has collaborated with US-based ticketing company Fandango to let users buy movie tickets using voice commands on Google Assistant. “Google has partnered with Fandango to offer movie ticket purchases from Google Assistant. To buy tickets, just say ‘buy tickets,’ or say, ‘Hey Google, get me tickets for…’,” The Verge reported late on […]

  • Wednesday, 07 July 2021
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Namaste! Google Assistant now available in Hindi

New Delhi: Google on Thursday rolled out Hindi support for its virtual assistant Google. The Assistant in Hindi will be available on Android phones 6.0+ (Marshmallow and above) and will soon come to Android 5.0 Lollipop, iPhones as well as Android Oreo (Go edition) devices. Google Assistant is already available in Hindi in the instant-messaging […]

  • Wednesday, 07 July 2021
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Op-Ed: Big Brother Is Watching You

Let me, for a change, start with a joke – and a scary one at that. Given the speed and frequency at which WhatsApp forwards move these days, it is possible many of you have already read it. But still, I could not resist the temptation to share it because it succinctly sums up the […]

  • Thursday, 10 June 2021
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Reliance Jio acquires Haptik for Rs 700 crore

Mumbai: Reliance Industries Ltd on Wednesday announced that its subsidiary Reliance Jio has acquired Mumbai-based Haptik — one of the world’s largest conversational Artificial Intelligence (AI) platforms — for about Rs 700 crore. Reliance will hold about 87 per cent of the business, with the rest being held by Haptik’s founders and employees via stock […]

  • Sunday, 02 May 2021
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Google Search, Assistant get special World Cup features

New Delhi: Keeping in line with the the ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 action, Google on Wednesday introduced special features to its Search, Assistant to help people get all the important match updates. Users can now explore the tournament table, stats and upcoming matches right by just typing “ICC Cricket World Cup” on Search in […]

  • Friday, 30 April 2021
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Soon, Google Assistant can read WhatsApp texts

San Francisco: Google’s virtual assistant is reportedly getting the ability to read messages from non-Google apps like WhatsApp, Slack and Telegram. Google Assistant has long had the option to read outs SMS messages aloud, but that has not done much good if for conversations lived in third-party apps. If the feature is rolled-out widely, it […]

  • Tuesday, 27 April 2021
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Google Assistant gets more optimised for Indian languages

New Delhi: US based search giant Google on Thursday announced a major update for Assistant users in India where one can now make Assistant talk in Hindi by just asking “Ok Google, Hindi bolo or “Talk to me in Hindi. Besides Hindi and English, users will also be able to find content in Marathi, Kannada, […]

  • Sunday, 25 April 2021
Amazon Leading Push To Make All Voice Assistants Compatible

San Francisco: US tech multinational Amazon announced that it will lead an initiative to make different voice assistants like Alexa and Cortana compatible among themselves and with all the different mobile devices on the market, a move for which the firm has obtained the support of more than 30 companies. A day before the company […]

  • Sunday, 25 April 2021
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Google Can Now Help Find Your Lost iPhone!

San Francisco: Google has announced features coming to Google Assistant, with the most notable feature for Apple users being the ability to locate a lost iPhone using the digital assistant.…

  • Thursday, 15 April 2021
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Google Assistant To Now Help Users Open, Search Android Apps

New Delhi: Google has extended Assistant voice commands to Android apps and the users can now open and search their favourite apps with ‘Hey Google wake word and make everyday tasks within an app much easier. Opening and searching within Android apps using “Hey Google” is now available to all Assistant-enabled Android phones. “Starting today, […]

  • Sunday, 11 April 2021
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