Google Duplex
An AI assisstant that can talk on the phone 🤖
Google Duplex launched on May 9, 2018 with 1,447 votes, #1 of 2,986 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.
In plain words
Google Duplex is an AI assistant that makes phone calls on behalf of users to complete tasks like booking restaurant reservations and scheduling haircuts. Integrated into Google Assistant and powered by Google's AI technology, it can speak naturally with humans to handle these interactions across hundreds of thousands of businesses. The system is designed to save users time by automating routine phone-based appointments and reservations.
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From the sources
Google Duplex is an AI assistant that can actually talk to humans to get what you need. Powered by Google's powerful AI and tucked into Google Assistant, you'll be able to book reservations and schedule haircuts at hundreds of thousands of restaurants in seconds. More features to come soon.
Posted by Yaniv Leviathan, Principal Engineer and Yossi Matias, Vice President, Engineering, Google A long-standing goal of human-computer intera...
A long-standing goal of human-computer interaction has been to enable people to have a natural conversation with computers, as they would with each other. In recent years, we have witnessed a revolution in the ability of computers to understand and to generate natural speech, especially with the application of deep neural networks (e.g., Google voice search , WaveNet ). Still, even with today’s state of the art systems, it is often frustrating having to talk to stilted computerized voices that don't understand natural language. In particular, automated phone systems are still struggling to recognize simple words and commands. They don’t engage in a conversation flow and force…from research.google
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