Last week, a “Magic Cue” capability for the Pixel 10 leaked, and Gboard today revealed upcoming “Pixel Sense” integration.
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Pixel Sense
The latest Gboard beta (version 15.5) features strings about how you can “Finish tasks faster with Pixel Sense.”
[Pixel Sense] brings your info to you, with no need to search
A previous Pixel 10 leak referred to the predictive suggestions capability as “Pixel Sense,” with Google seemingly renaming it to Magic Cue. Whatever the name, this feature can surface answers on your screen by looking at Gmail, Calendar, Keep, Tasks, Contacts, Messages, and Screenshots. The example Google offered was a friend asking for your flight number in a chat and Magic Cue finding it from Gmail for quick sharing.
With last week’s leak, it was unclear what the interface for this will be. Today’s mentions in Gboard suggest that it will appear in the suggestions row for a quick paste. This is exactly like the Pixel Screenshots “recall” integration introduced in December.
If you take a screenshot that includes a movie, song/album, or product, Pixel Screenshots will remember that information when you open an app where that information will be useful.
If somebody messaged me a Now Playing screen (e.g. “check this out”) and I saved it to Pixel Screenshots, opening YouTube Music or Spotify gives me a Gboard autofill suggestion for the name of that song.
Smart Edit
Gboard is also working on a feature that lets you make voice edits: “SmartEdit helps you add, remove, or replace words easily with just your voice.”
“To apply your edits, your editing commands and text that\u2019s edited will be sent to Google and temporarily processed. No audio or voice data is sent.\n\nYour use of the SmartEdit feature in Gboard is subject to the “Generative AI Terms of Service”. To learn how your data is handled, visit the\n”Google Privacy Policy.
This looks to go further than what you can do with the current Assistant voice typing capability.
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