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TIMOTHY JORDAN: This is I/O Live, and I'm Timothy Jordan.
And we're here in the Google Assistant Sandbox.
I'm going to go find Wayne, who's
going to give us a little tour.
What do you say?
Hey, Wayne, that was convenient.
WAYNE PIEKARSKI: I was just here waiting for you.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: I'm glad that you were.
So there's a lot going on in the sandbox,
and you're just going to take us around and tell us what's what.
Give us all the new stuff.
WAYNE PIEKARSKI: So we have a look going on right now.
I mean, one of the biggest things
we announced at CES this year was these new smart displays
that we've got.
So the Assistant is now no longer
just an audio experience.
It's now a display experience.
It runs on these smart displays.
It runs on phones, Android Wear, Android TV, Android Auto.
It's kind of everywhere.
So there's a lot of new possibilities
for the Assistant, and there's over 500 million devices that
now have the Assistant on it.
So it's definitely a platform that everyone
should be building for.
And, yeah, we've got a bunch of cool demos here.
We've got my friend Kenny over here,
who's an expert in this demo.
So let's see what we can do with this tablet.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Hey, how are you doing.
KENNY LAI: Good, how are you?
TIMOTHY JORDAN: I'm doing very well, thank you.
Do you want to show us a demo?
KENNY LAI: Yeah, so today we're going
to show how users can interact with our new smart displays
to do something cool, such as a cooking app.
Hey, Google, ask Tasty how to bake brownie cheesecake cookie.
So you can see, this is very similar to a tablet experience,
except we consider this voice-first in that we
want users to always interact with this using their voice.
You can interact by tapping on the display.
But as a user, you're cooking.
Your hands are dirty.
You don't want to be getting your devices dirty.
So you can also interact with this completely hands-free.
Hey, Google, skip to step 10.
So as you can see, this gives the user
another option of interacting with their Google
Assistant They can be busy with their hands.
They do not have to use their hands at all to control this.
And they can still get all the information that they need.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: That's awesome.
Thank you.
KENNY LAI: Yeah, you're welcome.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: All right, Wayne what's next?
WAYNE PIEKARSKI: Yeah, so here we've got our website here,
which is our Actions Discovery Area, where consumers
can find out more about the kinds of things
that they can do with Actions on Google.
There's over a million different actions that
are made by Google or by third party developers,
just like everyone watching this show,
that they can make and then make available on here
so their consumers can find out what's available.
So you see, you can do things like buying tickets,
ordering flowers, all kinds of things appearing here.
There's this huge directory of all different categories
that people can look in to find out
about the things they can do.
So there's lots of different things.
I have a suspicion you probably could live in your house
and just do everything with your voice
now without even having to lift a finger to eat,
and do things, and order, and whatever.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: It let's you do other things, too.
WAYNE PIEKARSKI: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: OK, what else is next?
WAYNE PIEKARSKI: So here we've got Android Wear,
which you mentioned earlier.
And then also we have our Google Home Max,
which is a big subwoofer-based speaker that's really loud
booming audio for big rooms.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Awesome.
What's next?
WAYNE PIEKARSKI: Say hello to Dialogflow.
This is our tool that allows people
to build conversational actions and experiences for the Google
Assistant.
It makes it really easy to use machine learning.
So basically you train it with some example sentences.
And then the next thing you know you've built a conversation.
We've actually been giving talks where in five minutes
we build a booking action, and show you
how to build an appointment system,
and how to extract dates and times from people.
It makes it really easy to build conversations.
This is probably one of the most important tools
when it comes to building fractions
on Google and the Google Assistant.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Awesome.
Let's check out one more area.
WAYNE PIEKARSKI: So now I've got Glen from Google Assistant SDK
team to show us some really cool demos they're working on.
GLEN SHIRES: Yeah, so with the Google Assistant SDK,
we can put the Google Assistant into any device with a speaker
and a microphone.
For example, you may want to put it into a microwave
oven or a set-top box.
We decided that for the show we'd have a little bit of fun
and put it into a plotter.
PLOTTER: Hey, Google, let's make some art.
GLEN SHIRES: So what we're seeing here
is a couple of different things.
First of all, we have the plotter talking
to the Google Assistant.
And everything this guest is saying
is going up to the cloud, being processed,
and it can answer regular commands, such as,
tell me the weather.
But in addition to that, we've layered custom commands
on top of it, such as draw purple triangle.
It makes it a lot easier and a lot more customizable
for people to build applications that
are built into appliances, set-top boxes, cars,
almost anything.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Awesome.
Thank you so much, Glen.
GLEN SHIRES: Thank you.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Wayne, thanks so much.
If developers want to get started, where do they go?
WAYNE PIEKARSKI: Yeah, no worries.
So the best place to go is developers.google.com/actions
and get started with Actions on Google built for the Google
Assistant.
TIMOTHY JORDAN: Awesome.
If you'd like to check out some more videos like this,
go to g.co/io/guide.
And if you'd like to catch any of the sessions from I/O,
g.co/io/videos.
Let's get out of here.
WAYNE PIEKARSKI: Let's go, man
TIMOTHY JORDAN: See you all later.
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