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Google Assistant Is About To Be Everywhere

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by Robby Payne
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Over at the Google Developers blog, a pretty important announcement happened in the past few days. Google Assistant is ready to break out of its Google Home and Android Nougat chains.

The SDK is here.




SDK, if you were wondering, is simply a Software Development Kit. It is, according to Wikipedia:

A software development kit (SDK or devkit) is typically a set of software development tools that allows the creation of applications for a certain software package, software framework, hardware platform, computer system, video game console, operating system, or similar development platform.

With this SDK, developers are now able to implement Google Assistant into their own projects. Home automation devices, robots, cleaning tools, etc.

This is the point where human creativity becomes really, really intriguing. Where we may be looking at this article and thinking of only a couple examples that this could benefit, someone somewhere has an idea that could blow our minds.




While it doesn’t seem this SDK is geared towards the visual experience of Google Assistant, it is a very welcome step in that direction. Google has a powerful and efficient tool in the Assistant, so it is fantastic to see it in the hands of the masses so that ideas we’ve never considered can become reality.

I, for one, would love the head unit in my car to have Google Assistant. Being able to adjust the air, stereo, windows, etc. with a simple voice command would be pretty amazing. Things like this are likely on the horizon, and that is exciting!

  • I do not want to be saying OK Google 100 times every day in my home. Google needs to stop requiring OK Google as the trigger, it can be an optional trigger that’s always there just in case, but users must be able to name their home whatever they want. Whatever they want. Any name we want to be saying 100 times a day, let us say whatever we want. No need for OK neither. It could be “Hey Name” or just only the name.

    • Jeff

      I agree. Cortana, Alexa, and Siri are unique enough names that most people don’t say that word in everyday life unless it’s to bring up the assistant. It would be nice to have a single word for the Google Assistant. And of course the best option is being able to name it whatever, even at the expense of miss fires, like naming it “Computer” in honor of Star Trek.

  • Robot google

    Okay Charbax. Say a command.

  • Mike

    not sure if I’m looking forward to that in one of those autonomous cars.

    “OK Google” ( or whatever ), “play Born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen”

    to which the “autonomous” car replies “sorry Mike, I can’t do that. I prefer classical. How about some Wagner instead?”

    and suddenly we’re racing down the freeway faster and faster while the car enjoys “The Ride of the Valkyries”.

  • pssst3

    There will be no Google tech in my bedroom.

    OK! Enough, Google!

    • Google admin

      Nice idea we would like to hear me thoughts from users reply a command to me to our we can try to make command as optional

  • Google admin

    E3

  • Meanwhile I still don’t have it on my Lineage Mi5 set to US locale.

  • Anandhu

    Not work on j7

  • Md Sadique

    I have already a Google Assistant in my marshmallow device

  • TenFour

    I already have a “head unit” in my car–it’s attached to my neck! Until Google Assistant can reliably do basic things it is already supposed to do, I would rather not trust it with anything to do with driving.