Since the end of the year we have known that Google is going to introduce artificial intelligence into its vehicle infotainment system for tasks such as summarizing messages sent to us and although the Xataka Android team has already been able to test it live at MWC 2024, it is still AI hadn’t reached Android Auto…until now.
Because deployment has already started on Android Auto to the general public. So, the implementation of this feature seems to have started with the latest version of this OS, the Android Auto 11.4 update. We tell you How Android Auto’s AI message summary will work retail.
At first it went unnoticed, but as 9to5Google reports, Android Auto’s AI message summary is now available to everyone. The first thing to know the secrets of this tool and try it is therefore to check that you have the latest version of Android Auto. Once updated, you will receive a notification informing you of the availability of the function in question.
How Android Auto AI Summaries Work
As we knew all along, Google’s AI mission is summarize long messages that come to us from different messaging apps, like WhatsApp, while we are driving. The good news is that you don’t have to configure anything and its operation is very simple.
Screenshots of notification and setup. Via 9to5Google
What you see above these lines is precisely the notification screen and Android Auto settings of your mobile (which you will find in ‘Settings‘ > ‘Connected devices‘ > ‘Android Auto‘). New options appear precisely in the Messages section and the one that interests us is “Play artificial intelligence summaries”, which logically must be activated for it to work, but you can also deactivate it if you are not interested .
It is important to know that even if this feature is enabled, it will not always summarize messages: to make this happen The message in question must be more than 40 words. If you have less, what will happen is that, as happened before, Google Assistant will read the messages aloud to us.
The first time the AI summarizes a message for you, Google will issue a warning reminding you that it is a message. a summary generated and the content might be slightly incorrect
In 9to5Google tests a the message of more than 100 words remains at around 15removing the straw and decorations to leave what is really important, something you can see in our video with how it works:
When the voice assistant reads a summary in Android Auto, there is virtually no difference in the interface compared to how it would read, although an option seems give your opinion on the summary. It should be noted that it also suggests context-appropriate responses and it also does so while retaining the type of language initially used.
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