Google Nest speakers and displays still rely on Google Assistant to recognize your commands. Until Gemini comes along, these ...

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To summon the Assistant, all you need to do is say the “Hey Google” or “Okay, Google” hotword. However, the company seems to think that this action involves too much work, so it’s ...

Competition regulators care about fairness. As long as Google’s user choice mechanism is transparent and nondiscriminatory, third-party cookies are pretty much fine with them. But data protection ...

The system responds reasonably well to its wake command of “Hey, Google ... and Apple CarPlay are a much better option. The same can be said for every other Google Built-In app that we ...

AI was everywhere at Google I/O this year. What we didn't hear much about, however, was the Google Assistant -- the company's intelligent voice-enabled helper that's been a key part of its core ...

Hey Google was an attempt to continue that legacy and ubiquity to voice searches. That previous approach is why I was so surprised Google decided to elevate “Gemini” this much. (The other ...

Google Gemini is more than just the new way to say Hey Google, it's an AI assistant ... It isn’t really a replacement for Assistant so much as a gatekeeper of all of Google’s apps that provide ...

Which means, unfortunately, that when I say “Hey, Google” out loud to my phone ... or is being replaced by a much better, if not-quite-the-same app. Sometimes, I wish they’d be honest ...

I've been using Google's Pixel line of phones since the first one dropped years ago. But I have a confession to make: I don't use Google Assistant all that much. I can't explain exactly why I ...

Say, "Hey, Google, help me speak [language ... You should also make sure you're in a relatively quiet place. If there's too much background noise, the app might have trouble detecting what's ...