Patent Reveals That Google Assistant May Be Prepping More Human-like Interactions

A new patent on the United States Patent and Trademark Office website reveals that Google Assistant may soon act as an “intermediary” between you and “3P” or third-party services on your Assistant-enabled smart speakers, displays, and more.

Google Assistant will decide for the user, based on their request, which service can complete it and connect them to that service automatically. The Assistant may also be looking to lend its voice to 3rd party services to make the interaction feel more natural. More accurately, third-party services with Assistant integration will receive a user’s response from Google Assistant, generate an appropriate response based on the request, and send that data back to Google Assistant so that it can then give the answer to the user in its own voice. The patent calls this “dynamic dialog”.

Let’s say for example that you want to book movie tickets, hail an Uber, order takeout, or do anything that these third-party services are capable of – Assistant may soon be able to do it all in its own voice with their help.