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- Google announced new Assistant features that let users issue specific commands for third-party Android apps.
- Android users can interact via voice for certain in-app actions on popular Google Play apps, with support coming to more apps in the future.
- Google Assistant will also let users set up shortcuts for third-party app queries.
You can use your voice to interact and control various smart devices, including the smartphone, which is the natural home of Google Assistant (Android), and Siri (iPhone) — although other voice assistants can also run on these platforms. Google Assistant always had the edge over Siri when it comes to the kind of functionality it can offer, and it’s all related to Google’s business model. Voice will become an increasingly more important way to interact with computers, and when that happens, Google will still need to be at the forefront of search queries. This explains the huge investment in Google Assistant and the consistent upgrades the voice assistant got over the years. Siri’s abilities also evolved considerably on Apple devices, but Assistant still feels like the more complete voice platform between them.
Google’s latest addition to Assistant represents a neat new feature that will let you issue even more commands, as the digital assistant now interacts with more Android apps.
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