{"id":39992,"date":"2019-11-21T11:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=2153b4d26387e6bf9863b5d3598b501c"},"modified":"2019-11-21T11:00:59","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T11:00:59","slug":"g-suite-gets-an-ai-boost-with-google-assistant-beta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/g-suite-gets-an-ai-boost-with-google-assistant-beta\/","title":{"rendered":"G Suite gets an AI boost with Google Assistant beta"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Bobby Hellard<\/a><\/span>
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Google has added\u00a0Google Assistant<\/a> capabilities into\u00a0G Suite<\/a> as part of a number of betas the cloud giant has unveiled at its Next 19 event.<\/p>\n

Users will be able to use voice commands to carry out a number of functions across G Suite using voice commands.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For example, in the Calendar app the Google Assistant can respond to commands asking it to check, add, change and delete entries and events; a potentially useful function for people looking to update their calendar while on the move.<\/p>\n

In other areas of G Suite, the integration of the Google Assistant means users can use commands such as\u00a0“Hey Google, join my next meeting” to be automatically dialled into a meeting, while the AI-powered virtual assistant can also be told to email meeting attendees if the user is running late.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While the integration does not extend to the Hangouts Meet app yet, it does allow for the Asus Hangouts Meet hardware kit – a suite of hardware to provide ‘one-touch’ Hangouts Meet video conferencing – to work with user voice commands for joining or leaving a meeting, and to make a phone call through the hardware.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Google also added smart and AI-powered features into Hangout Meet and Google Docs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Soon Hangouts Meet features will also be extended to Gmail<\/a>, where users can start video chats without leaving the application. This\u00a0is all part of an efficiency push within G Suite to streamline the user experience.<\/p>\n

“Next year Gmail<\/a> will enable you to jump on quick calls without scheduling one. We are calling it the meet experience in Gmail,” said Ulrike Gupta, a customer engineer at Google Cloud.<\/p>\n

Last year the company added ‘Smart Compose’ to Gmail, where AI features offer up automated responses to complete sentences within a message. This is now available for Google Docs, in beta; according to Google, Smart Compose has already saved people from typing more than two billion characters each week.<\/p>\n

By harnessing Google’s neural network-powered AI technology, Smart Compose will also be used to spot grammatical and spelling errors.<\/p>\n

As it will use aggregate textual data at its beta stage, Smart Compose will learn a user’s style and common word use, effectively improving over time.\u00a0However, some companies might not be comfortable with this data being collected and processed so may wish to opt-out of the beta.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Smart Compose autocorrect functions will also tap into the power of Google Search to ensure that the words and phrases being used are up-to-date with the latest parlance.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bobby Hellard<\/p>\n

21 Nov, 2019 <\/p>\n

Google has added\u00a0Google Assistant capabilities into\u00a0G Suite as part of a number of betas the cloud giant has unveiled at its Next 19 event.
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