The Google Assistant can now understand two languages ​​at the same time

The Google Assistant has become bilingual: it can now understand two languages ​​at the same time, so you can carry out your searches or give commands in both Spanish and English .

At the moment, the function is available for combinations of two in a list of six languages: Spanish, English, French, Italian, German and Japanese.

Google Assistant understands two languages ​​at the same time

Google has announced that its popular assistant, available on smartphones and other devices (such as smart speakers) can now understand two languages ​​at at a time.

This improvement is due to an advance in voice recognition, which allows the system to detect in which language we are giving instructions .

That's right: at the moment, only two languages ​​can be selected simultaneously, and there are few available. Combinations of two can be made only between those on this list: English, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, and Italian.

Therefore, if we do a combination of Spanish and English, the Google Assistant will work with those two, but it won't be able to recognize instructions in German.

The company has committed to add more languages ​​to the list in the coming weeks, but for now the maximum number of simultaneous languages there would be two.

With this new feature, assistant smart speakers will be easier to operate, and no need to manually switch from one language to other.

Google wants to understand several languages ​​at the same time

Many of Google users speak more than one language, and sometimes several. For this reason, the natural tendency in the evolution of the Assistant will be to make room for the recognition of different languages.

"Multilingual" options are already available, for example, in Google search results. And the keyboard from the same company, GBoard, has been offering combinations of up to three languages ​​with automatic recognition in handwriting and voice dictation for some time.

In any case, there is still a long way to go. The tech giant must commit to including more languages ​​on its compatibility list, and must move towards an artificial intelligence capable of recognizing more than two at a time.