Users will soon be able to teach Google Assistant to pronounce their name correctly

Android users will soon be able to train Google Assistant to pronounce their names correctly. Google wrote on its blog that it would begin rolling out this feature in the coming days. It is reported that the voice assistant will try to learn pronunciation when the user speaks their name out loud.

Access to the new feature will be available in the “Alias” section of the “Basic Information” section of the Google Assistant settings. It is worth noting that the user will not force the voice assistant to call him a name other than the nickname specified in the settings. A person whose name in the settings is specified as Vasya will not be able to force the Google Assistant to call him Petya.

Another innovation will be context recognition when setting the timer with a voice command. For example, when a user creates an alarm and then asks the Google Assistant to add an hour, the voice assistant will most likely create another alarm an hour later. Thanks to the new functionality, he will learn to understand what the user really wants.

Google says context awareness will soon expand to other aspects of the voice assistant as well. Of course, Google Assistant does a good job of searching the Internet and many other possibilities. The technology of understanding the living language BERT, used by the search giant, can make it much more powerful.