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Technology is a major driving force in our lives today. Social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Whatsapp, Hike etc. have taken the world by storm and have become a nonseparable part of life. Google assistant (GA) is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based virtual assistant developed by Google. Initially, the GA lacked the feature of chatting with random people. This research paper is about developing such a feature for GA by creating an “Action on Google”. Action on Google is a custom built application that adds features to Google Assistant. This application (named as Chat Hub) connects two random people available online. People are free to chat as per their area of interest. Since GA is inbuilt into all android devices, the subscriber count is increasing significantly each day. The chat facility was introduced in GA on October 3, 2018. The objective of developing such a feature is to make GA more user friendly and benefit people by helping to find others with similar interests.
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Batra, A., Yadav, A., Sharma, S.K. (2020). Connecting People Through Virtual Assistant on Google Assistant. In: Singh, P., Panigrahi, B., Suryadevara, N., Sharma, S., Singh, A. (eds) Proceedings of ICETIT 2019. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 605. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30577-2_35
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