Now Google Assistant is coming to phones without internet in India
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 19-09-2019
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Google Assistant in India is coming to phones in India without any internet, as it will soon be available via a phone call. At its annual Google for India event in Delhi, the company also announced a slew of other new features for Assistant in India, including language decoupling, food delivery support, App Actions, and the interpreter mode in Hindi.
"We introduced Assistant in Hindi and added another eight regional languages. Hindi is now the second most used language for the system globally, only after English, and across all the devices. It's a testament to the growth that we're seeing in the market," Manuel Bronstein, VP Product Management for Google Assistant revealed in interaction with indianexpress.com ahead of the announcements.
The dedicated Google Assistant-powered phone line will be for Vodafone-Idea subscribers in India. Bronstein revealed that Google initially ran a pilot of this feature in Lucknow and Kanpur. The new feature is aimed at users who have poor internet connectivity or have feature phones or those still on 2G phones where Google Assistant might not always work online.
Users will be able to dial 000 800 9191 000 to connect to the Vodafone-Idea Phone Line with Google Assistant, and then ask it questions like they would do to the Assistant on the phone. The Google Assistant phone line will work in both English and Hindi. Google says the Assistant phone line will help subscribers get information like weather details, traffic updates, which shops are open, answers to maths problems, and even read out news articles, just like it does on the phone.