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Virgin Media has announced two upgrades designed to boost Wi-Fi signal throughout your home for those struggling with dead zones not reached by their router. One of these improvements takes the form of a software upgrade rolling out to its Virgin Media Hub 3 and Hub 4 hardware, while the other boost is a new product, dubbed WiFi Pods, that plug-in throughout your home to increase the signal. Both of these boosts, designed to im
New Google Assistant voice typing UI showing up in Gboard
The dictation UI for devices that support the new Google Assistant the Pixel 4, 4 XL, and 4a is advertised with a launch prompt encouraging users to tap on the microphone icon. They ll then see further voice prompts to Close the UI, Delete words, or Send it to send the message. The interface also supports live translations.
These dictation controls were introduced in a demonstration of various and continuous Google Assistant commands during Google I/O 2019, though the UI itself was nothing like the one we re seeing today.
Next, if you don t have a Pixel, but have been missing the ability to undo Google s autocorrections with the tap of a backspace, it seems as though that ability is coming back. We were able to grab the above screenshot from beta v9.7.03. XDA-Developers reports that v9.7 is headed into stable release right now.
(Pocket-lint) - Those planning to tune into the Queen s Christmas Day message will be able to do so from their Amazon Alexa smart speakers for the first time this year.
While smart speaker owners have technically been able to listen to Her Majesty s annual message through their devices before, simply by asking Alexa (or, indeed, Google Assistant) to switch to a radio station following the event, things have been simplified for 2020.
Users can now simply say, Alexa, play the Queen s Christmas Day message .
Handily, for those listening around the world, the feature won t be reserved for devices in the UK, either. As long as your Alexa language is set to English - so, either the British, American, Australian, Indian or Canadian versions - you ll be able to listen in.