Google voice assistant sees 6-fold growth in JioPhones

New Delhi : Google Voice Assistant, made available On Reliance JioPhones in December 2017, has seen a six-fold growth in its usage, the company has announced. In a move to empower feature phone users in the country, Google on December 5, announced to bring its Voice Assistant on Reliance JioPhone. This was the first time that Voice Assistant was made available in any feature phone. “Since we launched the Google Assistant on the first feature phone in December, the Reliance JioPhones, usage of the Assistant in India has grown six times over the past four weeks,” Caesar Sengupta, Vice President, Next Billion Users Team at Google, said in a blog post. With Google Assistant, the next billion users are fast adopting cutting-edge technology “astonishingly quickly”.