5 Key Features of the Google Assistant

Google Assistant is Google's answer to Apple's well-known Siri. This virtual assistant is an artificial intelligence designed to integrate all the various functions of the phone and make it "work by itself". It originally appeared only for the Google Pixel, but little by little it has been opening up to new terminals, such as the LG G6 or the Lenovo Moto Z. For this reason, we have decided to point out some of the most useful features of this assistant, five specific.

Voice unlock without PIN

One of the ways we can use Google Assistant to make everyday life with our Android phone easier is through voice unlocking. We can do this by registering our voice in the Trusted Voice option, and then enabling it in the OK Google Detection option in the tools tab.

Once we have enabled this function, only with a voice command we can unlock the phone, swithout having to go through a second verification of PIN or fingerprint readerFast and easy. Of course, choose a word or phrase that is not too strange, or you will seem crazy talking to yourself.

Site Recommendations

One of the most interesting elements of the Google Assistant is that it takes advantage of all your other applications to weave a web.For example, if we want to go out to dinner with some friends, but we don't know where, we can say “OK Google, show me nearby restaurants”

Using our location and your Google Maps data, the assistant will show us the closest sites, with their ratings, so we can take a look before making a decision. We can also ask the Google Assistant to recommend holiday destinations for a specific moment, and the assistant will respond with the main results of its search engine.

Organizing with Google Calendar, Keep, and Gmail

Being able to have the Google calendar and our emails synchronized and organized by the Google Assistant is a real luxury. We can ask you to notify us of upcoming engagements, or to let us know if we've missed any unread mail, and show us

We can also ask the Google Assistant to remind us of specific notes registered in Google Keep, and even to read us the shopping list. It will be quite difficult to forget anything from now on with this wizard.

Integration with text messages

One of the more recently added features has to do with text messages (now called Android Messages). This function allows us to ask the Google Assistant if we have new messages and to read them to us We can also dictate messages, choosing the recipient, and the assistant will copy what we say . At our command, you will send it.

Play music or video by voice

We have the possibility to connect our Android phone via Bluetooth with the car software. In these cases, if we don't want to take our eyes off the wheel, but we want to listen to a song, we just have to say “OK Google” and then ask the assistant to play us a specific song, or random music

We can also use Google Assistant if we want to play a movie on Netflix or Google Play. If we have the television connected by Chromecast to our device, it will be like having a voice remote control.

What do you think of these functions? Do you think Google Assistant will stand up to Apple's Siri? As soon as we see it implemented more widely, we will be able to respond to that answer, and for that there will be little left.