How to use Google Duplex to make a restaurant reservation

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You can now command your Pixel phone to make a reservation for you and have Google Assistant do everything in the background. Using Google’s Duplex technology, Assistant will place a phone call to your chosen restaurant, have a voice conversation with the employee at the other end, and send you a confirmation that the reservation was successful and is set.

Duplex can sound eerily human. It’s a marvel of AI advancement. Google has said that, eventually, it will be able to make appointments at salons or call businesses to check their business hours for you (assuming they’re not listed in Google Maps). But for now, this technology is strictly for restaurant reservations.

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