Anybody can make a Google Assistant gadget with this new toolkit
Today, Google is announcing the general availability of the Google Assistant SDK. What that means is that anybody can download and run the Google Assistant on a gadget of their choice — Google says it will run well on Raspberry Pi 3 devices and also on Linux.
The obvious use case is speakers, but Google has ambitions to get its assistant embedded in all sorts of different gadgets: phones, watches, TVs, cars, mirrors, and whatever else you can think of. In theory, it will mean that we could see an big number of consumer devices running Google’s voice assistant — taking on Alexa as the go-to chat interface for gadgets.
That’s only in theory, however, as Google is positioning the current state of this SDK as appropriate for people who…
