At the CES 2018 event, Google announced wide-range of assistant enhancements and new features. In association with Qualcomm, Google will be bringing Assistant to 'smart displays' powered by the Android Things. We have already seen Lenovo Smart Display powered by the Qualcomm SDA624 SoC launch. Google launched the Home Mini speaker back in October 2016 and today the company announced that that the Assistant is coming to new voice-activated speakers from Altec Lansing, Anker Innovations, Bang & Olufsen, Braven, iHome, JBL, Jensen, LG, Klipsch, Knit Audio, Memorex, RIVA Audio and SōLIS. Apart from speakers, Google will roll out Assistant to 'Smart Display' devices which lets access YouTube, video call with Google Duo, find photos from Google Photos and more. https://youtu.be/ARA0AxrnHdM JBL, LG, Sony (based on the MediaTek MT8173 SoM) will join Lenovo by launching Smart Display products later this year. Back in September 2017, Google rolled out Assistant to NVIDIA SHIELD TV and Sony Android TV, the company now mentioned that is roll out Assistant to AirTV Player, Bouygues Telecom, LG U+, TCL, Skyworth, and Xiaomi. Biggest announcement today is that Assistant will be coming to more headphones from Jaybird, JBL, LG, and Sony (WH-1000XM2, WI-1000X, WF-1000X, WF-SP700N, WI-SP600N, WH-CH700N, WH-H900N). Users can talk to the Assistant instantly with just ...
Tuesday, 9 January 2018
Google to bring Assistant to Smart Displays, more headphones and Android Auto
At the CES 2018 event, Google announced wide-range of assistant enhancements and new features. In association with Qualcomm, Google will be bringing Assistant to 'smart displays' powered by the Android Things. We have already seen Lenovo Smart Display powered by the Qualcomm SDA624 SoC launch. Google launched the Home Mini speaker back in October 2016 and today the company announced that that the Assistant is coming to new voice-activated speakers from Altec Lansing, Anker Innovations, Bang & Olufsen, Braven, iHome, JBL, Jensen, LG, Klipsch, Knit Audio, Memorex, RIVA Audio and SōLIS. Apart from speakers, Google will roll out Assistant to 'Smart Display' devices which lets access YouTube, video call with Google Duo, find photos from Google Photos and more. https://youtu.be/ARA0AxrnHdM JBL, LG, Sony (based on the MediaTek MT8173 SoM) will join Lenovo by launching Smart Display products later this year. Back in September 2017, Google rolled out Assistant to NVIDIA SHIELD TV and Sony Android TV, the company now mentioned that is roll out Assistant to AirTV Player, Bouygues Telecom, LG U+, TCL, Skyworth, and Xiaomi. Biggest announcement today is that Assistant will be coming to more headphones from Jaybird, JBL, LG, and Sony (WH-1000XM2, WI-1000X, WF-1000X, WF-SP700N, WI-SP600N, WH-CH700N, WH-H900N). Users can talk to the Assistant instantly with just ...
