{"id":4436,"date":"2021-05-13T16:17:04","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T20:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=4436"},"modified":"2021-08-03T11:15:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T15:15:55","slug":"google-assistant-will-learn-to-pronounce-tricky-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/google-assistant-will-learn-to-pronounce-tricky-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Assistant Will Learn To Pronounce Tricky Names"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A new update from Google will allow users to teach Google Assistant how to pronounce their names and contact names correctly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new update not only makes Google Assistant better at pronouncing tricky names but also allows Google Assistant to understand the context of conversations users share with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By integrating Google&#8217;s BERT technology, words can now be processed holistically instead of individually, which, according to Google, means: &#8220;Assistant can now respond nearly 100 percent accurately to alarms and timer tasks.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While Google says the new feature will initially be available in English, it &#8220;hopes&#8221; to make it available in other languages soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Once users have received the new update on their phones, they tap the &#8220;Record your own&#8221; option under the contact box in the Assistance Settings menu to get started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Google is using BERT technology to further improve the assistant&#8217;s context-awareness, making conversations with the assistant feel more natural and useful.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/google-assistant-bert-update-223832135.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Engadget.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new update from Google will allow users to teach Google Assistant how to pronounce their names and contact names correctly.<\/p>\n<p>The new update not only makes Google Assistant better at pronouncing tricky names but also allows Google Assistant to understand the context of conversations users share with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-4436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobility","tag-google"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4436"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5465,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4436\/revisions\/5465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}