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I for one, look forward to hearing my house with the excess heat of AIs talking to each other.
Context: spam phone call was answered by an automated assistant on my phone, a feature of some Google Pixel phones.
OregonComputerGuy
Sort of related, but google translate when it comes to Finnish, leaves much to be desired as well
JerBearington
Yeah, Google Translate for most languages is iffy at best. It is one beneficial upgrade I’m hoping AI can make over time.
eion85
Now if I can just get it to make outgoing calls for me to make appointments and stuff that would be brilliant.
aducksayswhat
In my experience it's likely they'd need to make or use a booking system that doesn't suck in the first place, matching "here's my availability" with "here's your availability" shouldn't be a hard task (2 lines of code amirite?) and you could do it online, or your calendar could export availability in the next [time period]
eion85
That's certainly the ideal, but If my phone has access to my calendar and I tell it what time I'm looking for, my hope is it could call and make the appointment with the human on the other end for me.
GenshiV
I love my pixel for this... the auto-transcribe hold/phone trees with pick-lists for how to direct your call is amazing as well.
BillHubbard
If only Google wasn't advertising that feature world wide and then only enable it in some parts of the US, and not even outside of the US.
Nichols3
I have it in Canada, so it's definitely outside of the U.S., their voice-to-text transcription might only work reliably enough to release it in English for now though, I know it has trouble picking up my accent at times I can't imagine how it must be for ESL people.
BillHubbard
Currently doing some work in the Netherlands. Google may have missed this is a English speaking country.
Nichols3
Who knows, it's google, they might just not care enough about markets outside the US, or don't want to deal with EU regs, or something.
BillHubbard
Not being biased here. The EU rules should be an example to all.