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No More Repeating “Hey Google”: Google IO 2022 Update

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- Updated: 12th May 2022, 09:38 IST
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The world’s most influential search engine made the announcement during its annual developer conference, Google IO 2022. As a result, the Nest Hub Max users will soon be able to use Google Assistant without saying, “Hey, Google continuously”. Instead, users need to gaze at the Nest Hub Max to communicate with one another. Google refers to this functionality as “Look and Talk.”

When the function activates, the Nest Hub Max users will pose any query or request by glancing at the device’s display and speaking into the microphone. This ability may prove extremely helpful in some circumstances, such as when you are preparing chicken biryani and want assistance to provide you with the recipe for it.

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The Look and Talk functionality is an opt-in feature. To use it, you will need to activate both the Google Face Match and Google Voice Match technologies. The statement was there in a weblog by Sissie Hsiao, the vice president of Assistant at Google. In addition, it has been made clear by the firm that it will handle both the audio and visual data resulting from Look and Talk interactions locally on the device.

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This functionality will first be accessible on the Nest Hub Max in the United States.

Nest Hub Max customers will also have access to Google’s short phrases function, eliminating the need for them to say “Hey Google” each time they have a query. Instead, according to the explanation provided by the firm, the rapid words. This function will let users do things like set a timer or alarm, cancel timers and alarms, switch lights on or off, dim or brighten lights, inquire about the time and weather, and more.

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The business has verified that typing sentences on the Next Hub Max quickly would be available later in the summer in the United States.



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Highlights of the Story

  • The global technology leader Google made the announcement at its IO 2022 conference.
  • Users need to gaze at the Nest Hub Max to communicate with one another.
  • Google refers to this functionality as “Look and Talk.”

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