Windows 10: MWC19 - Dedicated Google Assistant button on more Android phones

Brink · Feb 25, 2019

In most countries around the world, phones are the primary way people interact with the Google Assistant. Whether you’re using an Android phone, an iPhone or a phone that’s running Android 9 Pie (Go edition) or KaiOS, the Assistant takes advantage of our phones’ capabilities so you can get help while you’re on the go.

This week, we’re at Mobile World Congress, announcing more phones with a dedicated Google Assistant button and sharing new ways people around the globe can use phones to get help from the Assistant where they want it.

Assistance where you want it

Bringing the Assistant to mobile apps

There are lots of ways the Assistant can help right within some of the apps we use every day. For example, since we launched the Assistant in Google Maps, drivers in the U.S. are getting hands-free help with directions, making calls and listening to music. We’re also seeing more than 15 times the number of queries asking for the Assistant’s help to send messages and read incoming texts out loud compared to before, when you could only use your voice for a few things. In the coming weeks, we’ll bring the Assistant to Google Maps in all Assistant phone languages.

Accessing the Google Assistant in Messages

Conversations are another place where the Google Assistant can lend a helping hand. Over the coming months for English users around the globe, Messages will start showing suggestions so you can get more information from the Google Assistant about movies, restaurants and weather. The Messages app uses on-device AI to offer suggestion chips relevant to your conversation, helping you easily find and share information as you chat one-on-one with your best friend, or in a group chat with your entire family. You can tap on the suggestion chip to learn more from your Assistant, and if you find the info is helpful, you can decide if you want to share that information back into your conversation. If you don’t share that information, the other person won’t see it.

If you’re chatting with your friends and you need to quickly look something up, your Assistant can help at any point when you’re using Messages. Just long press the Home button with the Messages app open on your phone, and your Assistant will pop up to help.

Accessing information when you need it

Tens of millions of affordable Android Go and KaiOS phones with the Assistant built-in have been sold over the last couple of years. As these phones have become more popular this past year, we’ve seen a seven times increase in the number of active users for the Assistant in India, Indonesia, Mexico and Brazil. In places where people are coming online for the first time, millions are discovering that voice is a more natural way to interact with technology, overcoming technological hurdles that previously seemed out of reach.

Dewi, a young mother from Indonesia, wanted to redesign her porch and improve her garden, but with so many websites and mobile apps to choose from, she didn’t know where to start. So she decided to ask her Google Assistant on her phone for help, accessing information in a way she hadn’t before. Using the Assistant, Dewi found design references, tutorials and how-to guides—everything she needed to tackle her overwhelming project. Now, she’s using the Assistant regularly to discover new recipes and cooking techniques, help her little brother with his homework and find the best prices available online while shopping.

“My daily activity has really changed. The Google Assistant has helped me to learn a lot of things that I wasn’t aware of before.” – Dewi from Makassar, Indonesia

Getting things done

Use your voice to do more on feature phones

In some languages, even a simple text message can be pretty difficult to type out—and it’s even harder on a feature phone keyboard with three letters on each button. Over the coming months, we’re launching Voice Typing on KaiOS, so the Assistant can help translate speech to text in a natural, convenient way. With the cursor in the right field, you can press and hold the Assistant button on your phone and use your voice to dictate your text messages, web searches or anything else that has a text field. If you’re someone who likes to navigate your feature phones’ menus and settings in English, but prefer to talk, text and search in your native language, now you can keep your KaiOS phone’s language in English and use a different language for your Google Assistant.

Talk to your Assistant in eight Indic languages

Last summer we announced the launch of the Google Assistant in Marathi, and said that seven more Indian languages would follow. Now, all users in India can talk to the Assistant in Marathi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, Kannada, Malayalam and Urdu. If you happen to speak one of these languages, give it a shot so we can continue improving the experience. And if you want to change your Assistant’s language on the fly, you can just say, “Ok Google, talk to me in Bengali.”

Multilingual support for more languages

When we first introduced the bilingual Assistant, you could choose between six different languages and switch back and forth between two of those interchangeably. Now, you can select any language pairing from Korean, Hindi, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish and Dutch, in addition to the languages that were supported from the get-go: English, Spanish, German, French, Japanese and Italian.

Partnering with local developers and brands to build more relevant Actions

In the coming months, developers will be able to release their Actions on Android 9 Pie (Go Edition) and KaiOS devices so entry-level smartphone and feature phone owners can access more locally relevant experiences. Some of those experiences we’re looking forward to bringing to millions more people include Galinha Pintadinha’s family-friendly Action in Brazil, and a better experience for cricket fans in India so they can stay up to date on the latest matches.

With Assistant in Messages and Google Maps, Voice Typing on KaiOS, more natural voice controls and physical buttons for the Assistant on more phones, your Google Assistant is ready to help in the places you need it most. If you haven’t used your Assistant on phones to get things done while you’re on the go, now’s the time to Make Google Do It.
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entropy13 · Feb 25, 2019

Google Android users clubhouse

The instructions are this:
1. Boot into recovery mode
2. Format System / Factory Data Wipe
3. Wipe cache and also wipe dalvik cache
4. Install FoxHound ICS zip file. You will get install completed message.
5. Select to Restart System Now and let the phone boot up to an Android setup screen.
6. Setup the phone as requested including Google setup.
7. Once Android Setup is complete, Reboot the phone into Recovery Mode again
8. Wipe cache and wipe dalvik cache again
9. Select to Restart System Now
10.Now if you want install AOSP package

Steps 1 and 7 are the only steps I understand and know what to do. *Laugh :laugh: Help? lol

Brink · Feb 25, 2019

Google Assistant is going global with more languages

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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brandonwh64 · Feb 25, 2019

Google Android users clubhouse

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Windows 10: MWC19 - Dedicated Google Assistant button on more Android phones

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