The Google Assistant is Google’s AI solution that is present on the majority of Android devices out there. However, Google is not alone at this as it is facing tough competition from the likes of Apple and Amazon as they both have their own offerings in the smartphone segment.
No one can argue the fact the Google provides a robust AI assistant system with their Assistant. You can look things up online, set up alarms or reminders, make calls etc. just by the use of voice commands with the current Google Assistant. However, as devices are getting more powerful, their list of capabilities are getting longer. This means that software companies are also trying their best to make their virtual assistants more powerful.
Google wants to lead the pack and at the CES 2019, they have discussed some of the plans for the future of Google Assistant. Soon, users will see updates from Google that are particularly aimed at increasing the capabilities of the Google Assistant. One of the areas where Google is going to improve Google Assistant is on speech recognition.
Understanding Human Speech Rather Than Transcribing
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For starters, Google Assistant will be able to insert “commas” and “periods” in the text without the users actually prompting it. Thus, the update is meant for making the Google Assistant more context-aware and tailor grammar based on that. The automatic punctuation update will be added to all the android devices with incremental updates.
The emphasis on grammar is certainly a welcoming change. As of now, when you say something that has punctuations like commas and periods in a grammatical sense, the Google Assistant will completely ignore it. Like all new optimizations that come to AI, the algorithm develops as it gets more practice. Google is busy testing it.
We still don’t know how well the AI would perform, but you can be assured that it is only going to get better. When you look at the whole spectrum of AI virtual assistants, they are moving towards such optimizations, where they could understand the context of the speech. The emphasis here is that they should behave like a proper assistant who understands your needs. A much-welcomed change!