Assistant can now read and reply to WhatsApp and Telegram messages
Assistant adds to the ability to interact with messages from messaging applications such as WhatsApp and Telegram. It is now available in the most used languages such as English and Spanish for those who have the assistant.
Little by little Google wants Assistant to have more functions to collect more data and sell us better advertising. It is part of what we accept for your services and the convenience of a voice assistant and today it can be easier to respond to messages without picking up your mobile.
This can be very useful for people with reduced mobility who still rely on voice to communicate through WhatsApp and Telegram or those who want to respond with their voice for whatever reason. To do this, you simply have to ask Assistant to read your messages with an “Ok Google, read me the messages.” The messages from the applications will then be narrated to you and you can respond little by little.
The Google assistant can read us the messages
Before we can do this, we will first need to activate the permissions so that Assistant reads the notifications to us. This will allow you to read the messages and narrate them, the easiest way to ask for this action to take us to the permission configuration screen. Even so, it must be taken into account that Spanish is one of the languages that costs the assistant the most due to the amount of idiom and different the large number of accents it has, which in many cases is difficult to understand.
If you want to use it, you will simply have to update the Asssistante application on Google Play so that it has the new functions and be very patient because it will have numerous failures in the first days until it gets used to our voice little by little until it no longer fail so much.
Source: Engadget
