The voice part is already in beta and on the Google Home. https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/wavenet https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/wa

The voice part is already in beta and on the Google Home. https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/wavenet https://cloud.google.com/text-to-speech/docs/wavenet That is the part that freaked out people as you can not tell the difference between humans and computers any longer. Google is using a DNN at 16k cycles a second in real-time. Suspect that was only possible to do at scale and at a reasonable cost with the TPUs. They are competing with a much less compute intensive approach. But Wavenet gets a much better result. The other aspects of Duplex will enter testing later this summer. So not long to wait. "Google Duplex: An AI System for Accomplishing Real-World Tasks Over the Phone" https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/05/duplex-ai-system-for-natural-conversation.html https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/05/duplex-ai-system-for-natur... This is the type of thing that contributed me buying the Google Home. Google is just so far ahead of everyone else in AI. Really every layer of the stack.