The Google Assistant can already recognize your voice among others and pick up what you say quite well, but it seems that other improvements are on the way: references to "personalized speech recognition" have started to appear in the Google app's code to android.
This comes courtesy of some insightful observations from the team at 9to5Google(Opens in a new tab), who discovered that the latest version of the app will offer to "store audio recordings on this device to help Google Assistant better recognize what to say to you." ".
Although we don't have much to do here, it sounds like the feature could be similar to something Google is already doing in some of its smart speakers: processing some common queries locally on a device to speed up recognition and processing.
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According to bits of information hidden within the app, if the user turns this feature off, the Google Assistant "will be less accurate in recognizing names and other words that are frequently spoken."
While it's unclear exactly what difference these enhancements will make, it sounds like Google Assistant's local processing on an Android phone and the ability to recognize your own vocal quirks (accent, unique contact names and all) will be experienced even more seamlessly than ever before. never.
At this point, we don't know when (or even if) Google will officially release this, but more information should be provided if it becomes a full feature. As we heard during Google IO 2022, efforts to make conversations with Google Assistant more natural are still ongoing.
Analysis: Google Assistant still has a lot of room for improvement
Google Assistant is arguably the best digital assistant in the business today, thanks to Google's innovations in machine learning and the way it touches nearly every aspect of our lives, from web search to devices. smart for home However, that doesn't mean there isn't room for improvement yet.
The ultimate goal is to make talking to Google Assistant as easy and seamless as chatting with a friend or relative, and there's still a long way to go until that's the case, despite regular updates that continue to be delayed. .
With the aforementioned supposed new feature focused on "personalized" conversations, it seems Google wants your Assistant to better understand the commands and words that are most specific to you.
In other words, you won't be caught off guard when you mention a name or phrase that makes perfect sense to you but would confuse an AI system. It makes sense to also store this data for Google Assistant on your phone, the device that's near you most of the day.