Gadgetory

the Google assistant is finding lots of new homes here at Google's Developers Conference previously you can only use the assistant if you had a couple of Google phones or the Google home now people are actually building it into a variety of different pieces of hardware so Google released the developers path for the assistant meaning you can place it into devices like oh say a cocktail mixer here and not only do you get the standard assistant but you can actually build specific conversational back-and-forth for your device hey what's on the menu on tap today I have a pairing mode in bang IO whether it be insisting now it actually knows what's on what's on tap today what's on the menu can I have a mango no problem this conference is topical and tropical so now it's actually gone from my voice to the assistant service through the speech recognition and natural language understanding and triggered an intent that's an action on Google that understands what drink I want what ingredients are made up in or make up that drink and how to actually trigger the client-side code that dispenses the liquid that you see down here below and because it's running on a technology called API - AI and I can have a conversation with the device I can say things like hey mixer can you tell us a few jokes I've got a great UDP joke for you but I'm not sure if you get it so thanks to the mocktail skill I'm now about to try a sip of the mango IO cocktail Cheers it's good