Google’s #madebygoogle event kickstarted off with its voice based search assistant, CEO Sundar Pichai revealed that the company has been hard at work to improve Google Assistant over the years with the help of Machine Learning and AI, and the end result the company is showing today is a rather impressive one.
First off, the search engine now happens to caption images more accurately than ever, in the case of the above image, it will now be able to recognise two brown bears sitting on top of rocks instead of a brown bear is swimming in the water, this increases the significance of the search term when searching images.
In addition, Pichai also demoed a long Chinese sentence being translated into English by phrase, in contrast to the current machine translation engine, the more improved Google Assistant is able to produce a more humanised translation that makes the sentence a lot closer to what a more accurate translation would be, this could save a lot of shame for those foreign countries that rely on Google Translate.
Last but not the least, text to speech voice response has also been greatly improved, with Pichai mentioning that there were thousands of short phrases recorded in a recording studio that enables Google Assistant to feedback voice search results in a more natural way, while it continues to improve over time by being able to learn and adapt to user feedback.
Pichai mentions that the company has even integrated this into Google Also and the response has so far been really positive. Therefore, it seems that Google has made its voice assistant a little more smarter and practical than what you can already do at the moment.
