Google Assistant can already recognize your voice from others and pick up what you’re saying pretty well, but even more improvements look to be on the way: references to “personalized speech recognition” have started popping up in the code of the Google app for Android. This is courtesy of some keen-eyed observations from the team at 9to5Google (opens in new tab), who found that the latest version of the app will offer to “store audio recordings on this device to help Google Assistant get better at recognizing what you say”. While we don’t have too much to go on here, it looks as though the feature could be similar to something Google already does on some of its smart speakers: processing some common queries locally on a device to speed up recognition and processing.
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