ISSUE 62 • ANDROID ADVISOR 11GOOGLE I/O 2019The supercharged technology revolves around
the deeper understanding that the next-gen Google
Assistant has into your life via a new Personal
References setting. And fear not, privacy nerds, Google
ex that: “You always have control over your personal
information, and can add, edit or remove details from
the ‘You’ tab in Assistant settings at any time.”
Google says the next-generation Assistant is
coming to Pixel phones – including, presumably,
the newly announced Pixel 3a – later this year.
Sadly,there’snotimeframeonwhen(orif)these
paradigm-shattering improvements will come to
the wider world of non-Google-y Android phones.
That’s not the only way Google’s supercharging
Assistant. Its enhanced contextual awareness expandsCEO Sundar Pichai claims
that Google has condensed
Assistant’s speech recognition
models from 100GB in size
down to just 50MB