My Line Lets Colombians Call Google Assistant (venturebeat.com) 42
An anonymous reader shares a report: At one time, Google Assistant could only be found on a handful of smartphones. Today, Google Assistant is available on 500 million devices -- smartphones, smart speakers, smart watches, tablets, smart televisions, and a broad range of home appliances and cars. But what about the billions of people in the world who still don't have a smartphone? Enter My Line, a phone number you can call to ask Google Assistant questions in parts of Colombia -- without a smartphone or computer or even the internet. When a person calls 6000913, they receive a welcome greeting and invitation to ask any question. After posing a question, users may hear prompts like "Do you have more questions?" or "Feel free to hang up whenever you're done," Cainkade Studio CEO Jeremy Landis told VentureBeat in a phone interview.
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I can see it now (Score:3)
It's the 1950s all over again.
"Hello, My Line, do you have Prince Albert in a can?"
"Hello, My Line, is your refrigerator running?"
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"Hello, My Line, do you have Prince Albert in a can?" "Hello, My Line, is your refrigerator running?"
It is probably a premium service toll number . . . so the joke will be on the caller, who gets stuck with the bill.
But how can you get rid of it? (Score:3)
And here I was today just googling how to get rid of the !@#$ assistant from my smart phone. Or at least get to to answer when I say, "Hey, Wiretap!"
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Welcome to Russian vocabulary school!
Chortle == To laugh.
Perhaps you conflated "choke on" with "juggle?"
Good initiative Google (Score:3, Funny)
Nothing like a good line of Colombian.
Goog 411 (Score:2)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
The service was really handy in the flip-phone days, and allowed Google to collect a massive training set for their voice recognition work.
text google instead (Score:2)
So, a poor 21st C version of a 20th C solution (Score:2)
Maybe some people here lived in the third world, or the educational / public service equivalent in the first world, but all my life ... we're talking back to High School in the early 1970's ... you could call "Information Services" at my local public library and get a real, live librarian answer any question ... and I mean ANY question ... usually within about two minutes. Sometimes they would ask for your number to call you back. Never waited more than a half hour in my life. Made a lot of money on bets th
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That's a US only thing. This never existed pretty much everywhere else in the world.
En espanol? (Score:2)
"users may hear prompts like "Do you have more questions?"" Ojala que diga, 'Tiene mas preguntas?'
(And to anyone who knows how to use accents and tildes in Spanish, or about inverted question marks: Sorry, this is /.)
fuck google (Score:1)
Fuck google and this stupid shit. What kind of joke is this? The non-english speaking world has been asking for their own NSA wiretap for a long time now. But elitist Assistant, Alexa and Siri only speak english.
Also Google Home, outside the US, pretty much only lets you set up Chromecast. Everything else is hidden from the menu. I have some smart relays and Hue lights which I can't control with Google Home because google decided that my language doesn't deserve to control google home. Of course, everyone k
Unavailable (Score:2)
I just tried(Yes, Colombian here) and a nice female voice said:"Hola, lo sentimos en este momento mi linea no puede ayudarte", something like "Hi, we are sorry but my line can't help you"
Which problem does this solve ? (Score:2)
Really.
Is it just me? (Score:2)
Is it just me?