With Cortana, Hound and Serpha, Google will not have it so easy as at first it seemed. Since the emergence of the news of the arrival of Cortana with everything that this will entail, since it will be integrated into Windows 10 and its year of free availability, it will ensure that many users have it installed on their terminals in order to check what services this offers. combination between PC and Android. The latest and greatest arrival is Hound by SoundHound, another great service that will have as its greatest quality the ability to listen to long phrases and that is positioned as another great alternative to what Google Now is at the moment.
So the battle for voice assistants is taking more shape and for this very reason, today we can welcome a great detail for Google Now. The search bar that many of us have present on the desktop of our phone will go offering different suggestions so that we learn to use it in a better way. So it will teach us certain suggestions for voice commands from that large list it has, and that every little bit is being extended with new ones.
Google Now and its great power
Google Now is a great service and one of its greatest qualities is in the voice commands. What happens is that we do not have enough memory to remember them all, or that the day we got down with it there were some who did not recognize them and in the end, inadvertently, we lose interest and relegate on the keyboard to search. As Google knows this itself, it is trying to find the space to suggest commands to inadvertently teach the user the great capacity that hides behind that search bar that many of us have in the terminal as a widget.
These suggestions are popping up to you to certain users in your search bar with Android Lollipop version 5.1. And not everyone who has this version can access the suggestions, so at the moment it seems more that Google is testing the functionality in order to deploy it later to all versions of Android and we can enjoy those interesting suggestions.
A great frustration for Google
It must be quite frustrating for Google to have a large list of voice commands in Google Now, and then in the usage statistics they go completely unnoticed by users. Commands like "Find the gazpacho recipe", "Wake me up in 8 hours" or "Is it going to rain tomorrow?" are available among many others that you can access from this entry where we have summarized the vast majority.
A click on the search bar, said the command «OK Google» and then some of the examples mentioned to have all the power from the phone. This combination of actions saves a lot of time, but if we do not know the voice commands and we are a little lazy we finally move on from it. So the suggestions in the bar itself is a great initiative, which we hope will not take long to reach our country.