Google found a way to go after 400 MEEELLION new users this week Google this week added Hindi to the languages spoken by its "Allo" digital assistance service, the company's Siri-and-Cortana competitor. The Register fancies this is a pretty significant thing to have done, because the world has about 400 million Hindi speakers in India alone, with plenty concentrated in states like Bihar …
Ah, you're quite correct, Ruli. At least Nougat versions of Allo do have voice recognition for speaking to the Assistant built in, but on review, it's not clear that this is what the Google blog article that I linked (and that seems like the root source of this El Reg article) is talking about.
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"In India 490 million people or one third of the population practise open defecation(pooping in open field without proper cleaning method)."-Wikipedia.
In big cities and in workplace when many do use toilet, many people usually don't flash or even don't wash hands"
-https://www.quora.com/Do-Indian-people-really-shit-in-streets
So I agree with the guy who said Indians might use google assistant to search nearby fields:-)
It's probably a religious thing cause in my country where most Hindus use toilet, even they like to poop in nearby Asram(Hindu temple with big area) field when they go there for religious festival. When usable good toilet are available.
"I can testify that all the Hindu's I know always use a toilet."
I can counter-testify that its not uncommon for colleagues visting our workplace from India to not fully understand how to use our bathrooms. Apart from the one or two results of unusual pooping practices we've encountered, it has been observed that some simply aren't used to the ritual of washing hands before leaving the bathroom.
I'm not meaning any disrespect to Indians here, of which I have numerous fine colleagues - merely confirming that we have cultural differences in our approach to bathrooms.
.. for someone to now suggest that Google has used a light dusting of cow in the plastic of its products and its server farms and we'd be in for an interesting weekend :)
Have a good one, everyone.
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