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Google Assistant will let you teach it how to pronounce tricky names
Google is introducing a handful new updates that will make Assistant better at pronouncing tricky names and understanding the context of conversations you share with it.
Google now understands more conversational search queries
Google Search has just gotten better at deciphering your sometimes conversational, sometimes awkwardly phrased queries. That's made possible by implementing a neural network-based technique for language processing called Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers, or BERT, which gives Search the power to recognize the importance of word sequences. The company says it's the product's "biggest leap forward in the past five years, and one of the biggest leaps forward in the history of Search."
Bert and Ernie TomTom voices tell you how to get, how to get to Sesame Street (video)
While some may seriously doubt their driving credentials, Bert and Ernie are the latest additions to TomTom's voice navigation library. The two muppets join the slightly more sinister likes of Darth Vader and Jeremy Clarkson, who've already offered up their distinctive vocal talents to the in-car navi. Grab your rubber duckie and see how the recording session went down after the break.
