Assistant voice typing in Gboard was launched with the Pixel 6 in 2021 as one in every of Google’s greatest options. With Google Assistant going out the door on telephones, Gboard has been up to date accordingly.
“Assistant voice typing” in Gboard Settings > Voice typing has been very generically rebranded to “Superior options.”
- Assistant voice typing: “Use Google Assistant to kind and edit messages, add emoji, and extra”
- Superior options: “Use superior voice instructions to edit textual content, add emojis, and extra”
Assistant voice typing allows you to dictate and subject instructions, like ship, delete, clear, add emoji, and transfer throughout fields. It’s meaningfully higher than Gboard’s customary voice expertise that works offline and is accessible for all different Android gadgets.
We realized this week that “Google Assistant” is sticking round on Nest shows and audio system, with a concentrate on good residence interactions. The newest Gemini massive language fashions (LLMs) will make doable back-and-forth conversations with follow-up questions that may be requested naturally. New voices are additionally coming to Google Assistant.
On telephones, it’s full stream forward on Gemini and this Gboard rebrand is sensible. There’s no change to the UI at this time, with the curved variant of the sunshine bar — as launched on the Pixel 4 — remaining within the nook microphone icon. That stated, “Repair it” appears to be Gemini branded/adjoining now.
We’re seeing this Assistant voice typing branding change with beta model 14.5.x of Gboard for Android.
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