Google introduced a brand new set of options for telephones, vehicles, and wearables at the moment on the Cellular World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona. These options embrace utilizing Gemini to craft messages, AI-generated captions for photos, summarizing texts by AI for Android Auto, and entry to passes on Put on OS.
The corporate’s Gemini implementation for picture era is going through a whole lot of criticism. However that isn’t stopping Google from rolling it out in a unique context. The corporate mentioned that beginning this week, Google Messages will get a function that permits you to entry Gemini within the app. The function is at the moment in beta and solely helps English.
Google can also be rolling out a function for Android Auto that reads out summaries of lengthy textual content messages and contextualizes group chats. The function, first introduced final month, additionally dishes out fast ideas for replies.
The search large can also be launching a couple of accessibility-related options at MWC. First, the corporate’s Lookout app, which helps visually impaired individuals with issues like meals labels and paperwork, will now generate AI-powered captions for photos which have lacking or inaccurate captions or alt textual content. The function is now rolling out to all customers throughout the globe with assist for English. Final yr, Google up to date the Lookout app with an AI-powered assistant, which allowed customers to ask questions on photos.
Google can also be rolling out improved display screen reader assist for Lens in Maps. Customers can level their telephone’s digital camera round them and TalkBack will learn details about locations and indicators.
On the productiveness entrance, Google is extending assist for handwritten notes to docs on Android telephones or tablets utilizing only a finger or a stylus. You possibly can select from totally different pen kinds and colours to spotlight sure factors in a doc.
Moreover, the corporate is launching assist for Spotify by an output switcher on the Android house display screen. This implies you’ll be able to resume listening to a music or a podcast from one supply to a different supply with Spotify. Beforehand this function solely supported YouTube Music.
Google can also be updating the Fitbit app with assist to get knowledge from totally different sources like AllTrails, Oura Ring, and MyFitnessPal. The corporate redesigned the app with a brand new three-tabbed format final yr. The At the moment tab exhibits you knowledge like train, steps, energy burned, and flooring climbed. And the “You” tab exhibits you knowledge from totally different apps together with Fitbit’s personal knowledge.
There are a couple of Put on OS-related updates as a part of this announcement as properly. Now you can entry Google Pockets passes like boarding passes, occasion tickets, gymnasium memberships, and loyalty playing cards straight from the watch. Plus, you may get instructions for transit through the use of voice. What’s extra, there’s an choice to mirror instructions from the telephone or get compass-guided navigation instructions.
