The Rundown 005: Google ups its Assistant game

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Kane Simms
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Dustin and I sit down for a long awaited Rundown and chat about the recent Google Assistant announcements from I/O, voice research from Microsoft, and much more.

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What we discuss in this episode

Meet the expert: voice search and discovery with Dustin Coates:

London

San Francisco

Seattle

Google Assistant:

What’s new with Google Assistant? Announcements from I/O19

Google Assistant passes 1m actions

About the interactive canvas

How to templates for Google Assistant

Schema mark up for how to tutorials

Schema mark up for FAQs

App actions for Google Assistant

Google Assistant for smart home

Mini apps

Google Pixel 3a and 3aXL

Everything else

Microsoft’s voice report 2019

Delete Alexa recordings

Echo Show 5

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