does the Dutch Google Assistant understand you well?
We have now become accustomed to the Dutch Google Assistant and to routines, but sometimes there can be a malfunction on the line. Then the Assistant has not understood your assignment and things go wrong. Does that often happen to you?
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Dutch Google Assistant
Google’s voice assistant now speaks 16 different languages and nine new ones were added in 2022 alone. The Assistant already completed the Dutch course in 2018 and since 2020 you can also automate tasks via Routines.
However, we sometimes hear from the editors and from readers dissatisfaction with the Assistant and how he does not understand assignments. In some cases it seems to be asleep when you say “Hey Google”, and in other cases it doesn’t understand your command. For me, the Assistant sometimes turns all the lights on instead of off at night before going to sleep.
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Trouble with accents?
A possible explanation for these problems can be found in accents. Androidworld talked about this with Google a few years ago. Daan van Esch, technical program manager at Google, then confirmed that accents were taken into account for the Dutch Assistant. However, the data sample of tests with different Dutch accents may be smaller compared to the different English accents that Google is used to.
“It’s also important that we have a diverse panel of testers, and if a voice database is included, it includes different types of voices, so you have a diverse speech database that reflects how a language differs from one place to another. different place and from one generation to the next. Having that database will take you a long way.”
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