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On October 29, 2012, Google Now received an update through the Google Play Store bringing the addition of Gmail cards.

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On June 27, 2012, Google unveiled Google Now as part of the premier demonstration of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean at Google I/O 2012. It was originally codenamed 'Majel' after Majel Barrett, the wife of Gene Roddenberry and the voice of computer systems in the Star Trek franchise it was also codenamed 'assistant'. In late 2011, reports surfaced that Google was enhancing its product Google Voice Search for the next version of Android. Unlike Google Now, however, Assistant can engage in a two-way dialogue with the user.

At Google I/O 2016, Google showcased its new intelligent personal assistant Google Assistant, in some ways an evolution of Google Now. Since 2015, Google gradually phased out reference to 'Google Now' in the Google app, largely removing the remaining use of 'Now' in October 2016, including replacing Now cards with Feed. Popular Science named Google Now the 'Innovation of the Year' for 2012. Later, however, they removed the notification center entirely from Chrome. In 2014, Google added Now cards to the notification center in Chrome OS and in the Chrome browser. The service became available for iOS on April 29, 2013, without most of its features. Google first included Google Now in Android 4.1 ('Jelly Bean'), which launched on July 9, 2012, and the Galaxy Nexus smartphone was first to support it.

Google Now branding is no longer used, but the functionality continues in the Google app and its discover tab. Google Now proactively delivered information to users to predict (based on search habits and other factors) information they may need in the form of informational cards.

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Google Now was a feature of Google Search of the Google app for Android and iOS. Limited functionality in Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux (via Google Chrome and the Google app) On the other hand, Siri did beat Google Assistant to incorporating Google Voice, an outlier that points to the still-evolving nature of the voice assistant landscape.Android 4.1+ ('Jelly Bean'), iOS 6.0+ and Chrome OS Siri’s library is therefore far smaller than Alexa’s more than 100,000 skills and Google Assistant’s 4,000 third-party Actions. There’s no Siri OS, which means there’s a limit to the way developers can include voice controls without Apple’s direct intervention. The new Siri functions are part of Apple’s reaction to pressure by app developers who want to make the voice assistant a bigger part of their product. Siri will pick the service it defaults to based on the frequency with which an app is used to interact with a contact. That means Siri will apply its machine learning capabilities to Google Voice calls and messages, so if you use Google Voice to always call or message a particular friend, Siri will eventually automatically start messages in Google Voice rather than switching to iMessage, even when you forget to say you want to use Google Voice. The integration makes Google Voice interact with iOS in the same way that Skype, WhatsApp, and other communication apps do. Google Voice almost certainly used Apple’s CallKit to integrate with Siri. At the beginning of October, Siri expanded again by allowing users to search for songs and playlists on Spotify. Siri started supporting Google Assistant a year ago and added Google Maps in September. Openness to third-party apps is a relatively new aspect of Siri, but Google Voice isn’t the first Google app that Siri can run. Google didn’t mention whether that would be changing when discussing updates for Google Assistant at the Made by Google event this week. That the company’s own voice assistant can’t interact with its own messaging app stands out as unusual. Google Assistant can’t make calls or send messages through Google Voice.

While Siri is integrating Google Voice, there is one glaring gap in Google Voice’s capabilities.

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Google Voice will still be free if you use Siri, except for the international call fee. If you have more than one Google Voice account you have to set a default Google account for the app or Siri won’t be able to send messages or make calls.

To set it up, you need to change the settings on an iOS app so that Google Voice allows activation by Siri. The only difference is the need to specify that the call or message should be made with Google Voice. Using Google Voice with Siri works basically the same as making any other calls or messages with the voice assistant. iPhone and iPad users can now ask Apple’s voice assistant to call or send messages via the Google communication app. The latest iOS update adds Google Voice to Siri’s list of recognized apps.

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