During the year that has just ended we have seen a dramatic increase in applications that allow access to artificial intelligence. And ChatGPT was certainly one of the very first services to arrive.
A few days ago we talked about how the duel between AI chatbot it could move to the smartphone platform (here is the collection with the best Android smartphones). This is because information has emerged online indicating the future possibility of using ChatGPT instead of Google Assistant on Android devices.
Let’s talk about them again because they emerged further information about. These focus on the possibility of activating even other intelligent assistants, therefore also ChatGPT, via voice commands. Therefore, it will not even be necessary to push any physical or graphical interface buttons to launch the alternative assistant to Assistant.
Activating the integrated voice assistant via voice command is a possibility that it has been present for some time on Android devices, especially on Pixels. Clearly the functionality is reserved for activating Google Assistant. On some samsung models it is possible to activate Bixby in the same way.
The novelty would therefore be of particular importance, because it would open the way to the voice activation of third-party assistants, like ChatGPT. This option was discovered, disabled, in the Android 14 QPR2. It is not clear how activation via voice command would be implemented, but the hypothesis is that we will rely on Private Compute Core (PCC) of Android.
This particular system level would allow Android to launch apps or services, such as a third-party assistant, via identifying a keyword but without granting access to the microphone to the activated app or service. This is a big step forward in terms of privacy.
This way the third-party assistant would enjoy a special access to the system, without however particular concerns on the privacy front, given that it will always be Android to manage access to the microphone and keyword identification.
You will have understood that the news is still there under development And inaccessible to end users.
We can expect its distribution with Android 15even if Google has not yet launched clear signals in this regard.
Android Authority
