Ockie
Resident Lead Bender
We've covered a lot of what Google Allo can do as a messaging application, but we haven't yet scratched the surface of one of its most interesting features: Assistant. It lives as a standalone chat, but also as a bot ready to answer any question inside your other conversations (not the Incognito ones though, as we've said before) by just mentioning @google.
Since Assistant is an evolution of Google Now / OK Google commands, and since Allo can send voice messages, there's a nifty feature you can easily deduce from the combination of the two: Assistant will interpret your voice messages in Allo. It's as cool as you might guess.
Whenever you're chatting with Assistant, you can type a question or, even better, tap the microphone and record a voice message like you would in any other Allo chat. Assistant will transcribe your message into text first: "You said: [voice message]" and then proceed to answer you right away. This works for everything you may think of: regular searches and OK Google commands (no need to actually say "OK Google" here). It makes even more sense when you think about it as talking to an assistant..............................
http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/08/23/google-assistant-can-answer-voice-messages-allo/
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