Google Assistant moves from the cloud to the phone, now 10X faster
The faster Assistant will be available on Pixel phones ‘later this year’ and could become a major competitive advantage. Google’s Assistant is on a billion devices. Google sees it as a kind of connective tissue in its growing device ecosystem, from smartphones to the web and to Google Home/Nest smart speakers and displays. This morning as expected, Google made several Assistant-related announcements. The most significant of them was relatively technical: the migration of speech processing from the cloud to the device itself. Not exactly ‘search personalization.’ The Assistant announcements included “Duplex on the…
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