TechRepublic January 9, 2020
Enhancements to Google Assistant include new scheduling capabilities and more natural sounding voice for reading long-form text.
TechRepublic’s Karen Roby talked to Scott Huffman, vice president of engineering for Google Assistant, at CES 2020 about the artificial intelligence used in Google Assistant and the future of machine learning. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation.
Scott Huffman: We’re really excited to be here at CES, and we’re really showcasing a couple of things. One is lots of the amazing devices that both have the Google Assistant built in and that you can use your voice with the Assistant to control. And then we have a lot of stations showing demos of new functionality...