Google Assistant
The reason why this app is like having your own personal assistant is because it is one, albeit virtual of course. Although What'sapp has unique features of sending across a location, file, picture, audio recording and so on- these are all saved files that are being shared via the app, which makes communication so much closer. However, where Allo differs is that you could be wondering about the travel time to a certain place, or the best available flights to a certain destination or discounts on hotels and all you have to do is type in @google followed your question or order. Next thing you know, it will be providing you with all the details, accompanied by a series of pictures wherever available.
Automatic Responses
The app can provide automatic responses to messages on behalf of the user. It does this through a software that contains machine-learning technology, which gets better at picking up the user’s most frequently used responses with increased usage of the app. For instance if someone sends you a ‘How are you?’, the app will offer you the automatic response of ‘Good, how about you’ that you can send across. It may seem impersonal at first but it builds up with greater use and is definitely convenient for those who are on the run and are too busy to type out a response.
Image recognition
Google has incorporated ‘photo recognition’ in this app, making it possible for it to recognize a received picture and suggest an automatic response. For example, if someone sends you a picture of a sunset, it will suggest ‘beautiful’ or ‘wow’ as a response, depending on your maximum usage of either, from which you can choose the more applicable one and send it across.
Selective end to end encryption
While both What'sapp and Allo offer end to end encryption for chats, the latter allows for ‘selective end to end encryption’, which means that you can select the contact you want to chat with in incognito mode, through its ‘Incognito Chat’ option. Along with this, the chat history will disappear after you have finished the talk, depending on the expiration period you have set. In case, you have switched off your expiration period, the chats won't disappear.
Bigger font size
Google has also introduced a better way for users to express themselves in conversations.
It has incorporated two slider buttons -‘Whisper’ and ‘Shout’. Users can increase or decrease the font size using these slider buttons.
Gmail account sync
Google Allo takes your phone number for primary identification, but if required then your Google account can also be synced with the app.
This will further enable you to get all important updates. For example, if you have a flight to catch, then the app will notify you about the same in advance.
Set timer to auto delete messages
An interesting feature in the app is its ability to help you set a timer for your messages to be deleted.
You can set a timer starting from 5 seconds, and once read the message gets deleted automatically.
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