Windows 10: Google Assistant is going global with more languages

Brink · Feb 22, 2018

Over the past year and a half, the Google Assistant has grown from being available on just one device in one language to across many types of devices, including speakers, phones, Android Auto and TVs, in many languages all around the world. We’ve been focused on making the Assistant useful throughout all parts of your day, and earlier this year we showed the latest features we’re bringing to the Assistant in homes and in cars.

As we head into Mobile World Congress, the mobile industry’s largest trade show, we're sharing more about how we’re working closely with the mobile ecosystem to bring the Assistant to more people around the world. Similar to Android, where we've partnered closely with mobile carriers and device makers to build great products for people everywhere, we’re taking an ecosystem approach to the Assistant on mobile. Here's a look at what's coming.

Bringing the Assistant to more than 30 languages

Android users are all around the world, so from the start, our goal has been to bring the Assistant to as many people, languages, and locations as possible. The Assistant is already available in eight languages, and by the end of the year it will be available in more than 30 languages, reaching 95 percent of all eligible Android phones worldwide. In the next few months, we’ll bring the Assistant to Danish, Dutch, Hindi, Indonesian, Norwegian, Swedish and Thai on Android phones and iPhones, and we’ll add more languages on more devices throughout the year.

We’re also making the Assistant multilingual later this year, so families or individuals that speak more than one language can speak naturally to the Assistant. With this new feature, the Assistant will be able to understand you in multiple languages fluently. If you prefer to speak German at work, but French at home, your Assistant is right there with you. Multilingual will first be available in English, French and German, with support for more languages coming over time.

Building a great Assistant for phones

Since MWC last year, we've been working closely with device makers (OEMs) to bring all the capabilities of the Assistant to life on Android phones. This year, we’re bringing these efforts together as the Assistant Mobile OEM program, which will enable OEMs to build deeper integrations between the Assistant and device features, using natural language understanding and the conversational interfaces of the Assistant. We’ve already been working with OEMs for more than a year and continue to work together so they can build device-specific commands with the Assistant, develop integration with hardware-based AI chips, ensure “Ok Google" and "Hey Google" work when the screen is off, and build other custom integrations. Coming soon, we’ll also have new integrations from LG, Sony Mobile and Xiaomi.

Mobile carriers also play a critical role in delivering great mobile experiences to people through their networks and services. Our Assistant Carrier program helps mobile carriers use capabilities in the Assistant to give their customers more insight and control over their service. This includes helping people learn more about their plan, add new services (like international data roaming), get customer support and more. This gives carriers a new way to support their customers while reducing response time. Carriers Sprint, Koodo, Telus and Vodafone are already developing integrations with the Assistant, with more coming soon.

A better experience across devices

The Assistant can already help you keep track of your day, control your smart home devices, make calls, find recipes and more. Starting over the next week, we’re adding two new features that help you use the Assistant across all the devices in your life.

Routines: We first announced Routines last year, which help you get multiple things done with just a single command. In the coming weeks in the U.S., you’ll be able to use six routines that help with your morning, commutes to and from work, and evening at home. For example, say “Hey Google, I’m home” and the Assistant on your Google Home or phone can turn on the lights, share any home reminders, play your favorite music and more, all with just four words.

Location-based reminders: You can already set reminders based on a location with the Assistant on your phone. In the coming weeks, you’ll also be able to set them with your speaker. Want to make sure you pick up the milk at the grocery store? All you have to do is ask the Assistant on your smart speaker, like Google Home—and when you get to the store, the Assistant on your phone will remind you.

With more languages, more features and closer integrations with phone makers and carriers, the Assistant is getting better for you.

Nick Fox
Vice President of Product, Google
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Wungraileng Vashi · Feb 22, 2018

Windows 10 erori

Hi,

Please be informed that that the language you are seeking assistance for is unavailable. Therefore, I would suggest you to click on the "Global" icon at the bottom of the page when you go to the "ask a questions" page and choose the appropriate region and
language you are comfortable speaking with.

Thank you for contacting Microsoft Community.

childoftheworld · Feb 22, 2018

N8 Change Language

Back in the Hey Days of Ericsson, before Sony bought them. They had one single very popular Handset, the T39. It is a basic cellphone. Yes! But it contains font glyphs and input methods for every single language in the world. One single phone for a real
global world.

Nokia has to realize that countries' boundaries do not necessarily mean that its inhabitants are of native stock. In this era of globalization, human beings & (and if you like) aliens travel around, or are not even born in their countries of ethnic origin;
but may be born outside their "home" country and raised by their parents and ancestors to speak their native tongue.

As we push people to learn more foreign languages to bring globalization closer and the world's population closer together, Nokia's mentality is still that of boxing people in regions and boundaries that does not mean anything to us anymore...

Globalization! No regions, no boundaries! That is what "Connecting People" is!

It is odd that Nokia, a Finnish company, does not realize this. Although the National Language is Finnish. Students in Finland are required to take English because no one else understands Finnish except for the Finns. Hence, English is a must in the school
curriculum.

For a country that realizes the importance of learning foreign languages, why are you limiting our abilities to be truly global citizens of a world that mingles together, that communicates with each other in many different tongues! No!

Apple and Google realizes this. Nokia used to be at the forefront of mobile technology! Your research is way ahead of Apple and Google's... but yet... you forget about the real meaning of Connecting People in a Huge Single Global Village!

Work harder! Fix this!

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