It can switch back and forth between two different languages on the fly.
Some background: While assistants like Amazon’s Alexa and Apple’s Siri can understand various languages, they can only process one at a time.
Los detalles: The new version of Google Assistant launched last week after being announced back in February. It can now work with any coupling of English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese. The software will respond in whichever language the last command was posed in and will work on Android phones and Google speakers.
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