Google Assistant gets flight check-in mode, maps integration, more at CES 2019

Some of these features will initially be limited to the US audience, eventually rolling out to all. And now, at the Consumer Electronics Show 2019, Google announced tons of more features for the Assistant like flight check-ins, hotel booking, a new language interpreter mode, and the extension of Assistant on the lockscreen to all Android phones. Google, however, wrote in a blog that it will support for more airlines are coming “soon.” The Assistant is also getting the ability to book hotels for you, wherein you can instruct Assistant to “book the Cambria Hotel in New York on January 12th,” for instance, and it will show you pricing options and availability within Assistant, which you can book using Google Pay credentials. Interpreter mode Within the travel theme, Google Assistant has been announced with another feature, which will allow it to have a conversations in different languages. A more connected home, staying safe on the road and a little help with travel and translation → https://t.co/9nFbXheRA9 #HeyGoogle pic.twitter.com/ltw8RMBtrc — Google January 8, 2019 Google Assistant Connect On the connectivity end, Google has also announced a new platform called Connect, that will allow device manufacturers to bring Assistant to their products.