Of course, why not just talk to your TVs and hope that they will respond. Our fingers are too busy with our smartphones for us to be moving the remote from hand to hand. And what’s better than a talking flat screen? Well, a smart screen that answers commands. For those interested in this kind of thing, Samsung TVs will soon come with Google Assistant. That is the latest, at least.
Google Assistant was launched on Samsung TVs in the United States last month. Since then, the South Korean device manufacturer has been working harder than worker bees to get the feature in as many countries as possible.
So far, Samsung’s 2020 TVs come with Google Assistant in Italy, France, UK, and Germany. By the end of the year, 12 more countries will be added to the list with Brazil, Spain, South Korea, and India getting theirs by end November.
Google Assistant will be available alongside Samsung’s Bixby voice assistant and Amazon’s Alexa. If you feel like you are in a UN building with all those voice assistants, it is because you actually are in one. Only the UN here is prefix for UN-Heard.
So, if you don’t know how to check weather settings in your city, you can just voice the command, and Google Assistant, your servant AI, will quickly tell you the sun is vexed and too tired to shine. “Go look outside yourself!”
Google Assistant will also allow you to change channels, increase or decrease volume, and control other smart home devices.
But the question is why? Is Samsung trying to sabotage the growth of its Bixby smart assistant, cos who would ignore Alexa and Google Assistant and use Bixby now that they are available? Well, who knows how these things work. I guess with the popularity of Google Assistant, this would make Samsung TVs more attractive. Right? Right?
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