Google made multiple major announcements related to the future of its Assistant today, including new voices, a feature to teach kids good manners, the ability to continue conversations, and the Assistant being able to make phone calls on users’ behalf.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai says he wants the Assistant to be “natural and comfortable to talk to.” As such, users can now keep a conversation going with the Assistant without repeatedly saying, “Hey Google,” to start every query. If you want to ask a question, you can keep asking more until you’ve reached a natural stopping point in the conversation. The feature, called continued conversations, should be available in the “coming weeks.” Amazon’s Alexa assistant already does this with its f…

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