Google takes down its Smart Reply characteristic from the Voice app

Google, an American expertise large, has lately up to date its Voice app on the Apple App retailer and Google Play Store. With the brand new replace, Google Voice has eliminated the Smart Reply characteristic on each iOS and Android platforms. The Smart Reply characteristic was launched final 12 months in February. However, the expertise large has acknowledged any motive to take down the characteristic as of now.

The launch notes for Google Voice on the App Store and Google Play Store verify the removing of the characteristic as the corporate says, “Smart reply is now not supported.” The firm has not given any rationalization on taking down the characteristic. It is feasible that it may very well be a server-side change.

To recall, Google had additionally rolled out a brand new characteristic to Google Voice. The tech large had added a warning characteristic to it which can alert customers concerning the incoming spam calls. This will assist customers keep away from undesirable calls and assist them not fall sufferer to probably dangerous scams. Google will use synthetic intelligence (AI) to establish spam callers.

Google Voice is a service obtainable to Google Account clients within the US and Google Workspace clients in Canada. Users get a telephone quantity for calling, textual content messaging, and voicemail. It works on smartphones in addition to computer systems.

The new characteristic was introduced by Google in a Workspace weblog replace. “To assist shield you from undesirable calls and probably dangerous scams, Google Voice reveals a ‘suspected spam caller’ label on all calls that Google believes to be spam. Google makes this dedication utilizing the identical superior synthetic intelligence that identifies billions of spam calls every month throughout Google’s calling ecosystem,” the corporate mentioned.

Google mentioned that the brand new spam calls label will seem on the incoming name display in addition to within the name historical past. Users can have two decisions right here. One is they’ll verify a suspected spam name, which causes future calls from that quantity to go on to voicemail and name historical past entries to be put within the spam folder. Second choice is to mark a labeled name as not spam, after which the suspected spam label is rarely displayed for that quantity once more.

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