Brad Abrams on Google Assistant - a podcast by OReilly Media

The O’Reilly Bots Podcast: A universal bot for messaging, mobile voice, and the home.

In this episode of theO’Reilly Bots Podcast, Pete Skomoroch and I speak withBrad Abrams, group product manager ofGoogle Assistant, the company’s new AI-driven bot that lives in many different contexts, including thePixelphone, theAllomessaging app, and theGoogle Homevoice-controlled speaker.

Discussion points:

• “Actions,” Google’s API for Assistant plug-ins. These are available for Google Home now, and will be rolled out for other instances of Assistant later.
• The relationship between Assistant and Google’s Pixel phone.
• Google’s plans for the recently acquiredAPI.ai,and where it fits in with Assistant.
• Google’sWaveNet technology, a text-to-voice engine that uses neural networks.
• Google’s voice user interface design guidelines, and how Google uses different voices in different settings.

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