Jan 09, 2020 12:30:00

The number of users of 'Google Assistant' exceeded 500 million in more than 90 countries, text reading to 42 languages

The number of users of Google's AI assistant '

Google Assistant ' has exceeded 500 million worldwide. It is said that the number of installed terminals will be more than 1 billion.

A more helpful Google Assistant for your every day
https://www.blog.google/products/assistant/ces-2020-google-assistant/

The ' Google Assistant '

announced at Google I / O 2016 held in May 2016 will support Japanese, French, German, and Portuguese in the following 2017. At this point, the number of installed terminals was about 100 million units, but the power has expanded rapidly, and as of January 2020, it has reached 1 billion units.

It has over 500 million users in 90 countries and more than 30 languages.

At CES 2020, several Google Assistant enhancements were announced. First of all, as an enhancement for the 'smart home' area, a reservation function that specifies the start time and stop time of home appliances compatible with Google Assistant will be added.

In addition, a convenient sticky note function has been added when using a smart display. Because it is possible to create and display without signing in, you can easily leave memos just like sticky notes on paper.

When you say 'OK, Google. Read aloud', a demonstration video is also released showing how to read the displayed text with natural voice. The video is read aloud in English, but it will support reading in 42 languages including Japanese.

Read It with the Google Assistant: Listen to web pages-YouTube


It has been pointed out that when talking about the Google Assistant, employees were asked to record even the conversation content that was not intended for the use of the device. Regarding this point, it is designed to wait in standby mode until there is a clear call trigger, it does not send information to Google or others, and it also explains that the recorded sound is not saved by default It was done. In addition to this, as a new function, it is now possible to delete assistant activities by saying 'delete all this week'.

Privacy On Google Assistant-YouTube