10 Crazy Features Powering Google's Pixel 10 Phones (and Watch)

This is each powered by Google's latest on-device Gemini Nano model, meaning thing is processed successful nan cloud. If you alteration this feature, it'll switch your voicemail, truthful you'll person to take if you want to usage Take a Message aliases nan modular voicemail function.

AI-Generated Voice for Translations

Real-time translations complete telephone calls are becoming a staple characteristic connected most caller smartphones. It allows 2 group to speak to each different successful a different connection complete nan phone, pinch their translated words usually publication retired by an AI assistant. Google's taking that characteristic and going a measurement further—it really generates an approximation of your voice, truthful that your translated words travel done almost sounding for illustration you to nan personification connected nan different end.

I sewage a demo of this characteristic and watched arsenic a Google worker said connected a telephone telephone successful German. Google created an artificial type of his sound and utilized it to present nan English translations, allowing nan caller to perceive what nan German caller sounds for illustration successful their autochthonal tongue. It wasn't perfect—the English sometimes came done pinch a British accent—but it sounded close, and could moreover prime up nan person's tone.

Google says nary audio is ever recorded, and nan information isn't stored. This is powered by an on-device exemplary that uses a short snippet of erstwhile nan personification starts speaking to construe nan voice. It's only disposable successful a fewer languages, for illustration English, German, Japanese, and Spanish.

New Journal App

Taking a cue from Apple, Google now has its ain Journal app. Depending connected what goals you take erstwhile you first group up nan app, you'll get prompts connected what to diary about, and aft you write, you'll get an AI-powered reflection that offers immoderate penetration into your well-being. Google uses emojis to tag nan wide reside of nan diary introduction truthful you tin spot really things alteration complete a month. You tin fastener nan Journal app down a pin aliases passcode.

Daily Hub

Google's besides taking a page from Samsung's Now Brief pinch a characteristic called Daily Hub. It's not arsenic in-your-face arsenic Samsung's tool. Instead, it'll either look successful Google's At a Glance widget connected nan location page 2 aliases 3 times per day, aliases you tin entree it straight from Google Discover. It shows upcoming almanac events for nan day, reminders powered by Magic Cue, and it'll moreover propose caller activities for you to effort based connected your Google Search history.

Raise to Talk to Gemini

On nan caller Pixel Watch 4, you tin now conscionable raise your wrist and Gemini will activate, eliminating nan request to opportunity a basking connection aliases property a fastener to trigger nan assistant. Gemini itself is reasonably caller to Wear OS, only having rolled retired a fewer months ago. It's overmuch amended astatine earthy language, meaning you tin inquire it thing without pursuing a rigid query and still get an answer. That includes summarizing nan past email you received, mounting reminders, aliases figuring retired what vino pairs champion pinch a charcuterie board.