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Issa Rae Is The New Voice Of The Google Assistant

<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;issa-rae-is-reportedly-producing-a-set-it-off-remake&sol;">Issa Rae<&sol;a> is a very busy woman these days&period; Not only is she currently hard at work on the highly-anticipated fourth season of her hit HBO series &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Insecure&comma;” but she also has a host of film and television projects in the works&period; Now&comma; she’s giving you the opportunity to feel closer to her than ever before courtesy of Google&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>First&comma; we had Samuel L&period; Jackson as the voice of Alexa and now we have Issa Rae as the voice of…the Google Assistant&excl; That’s right&comma; it’s just been announced that Issa is the latest celebrity to lend their voice to the Google Assistant feature&period; She’s in good company because earlier this year&comma; singer John Legend also did the same&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>According to &commat;Complex&comma; Issa&&num;8217&semi;s voice in the Google Assistant <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;complex&period;com&sol;pop-culture&sol;2019&sol;10&sol;issa-rae-voice-google-assistant&quest;utm&lowbar;campaign&equals;popculturetw&amp&semi;utm&lowbar;source&equals;twitter&period;com&amp&semi;utm&lowbar;medium&equals;social">will be able to<&sol;a> read the weather&comma; news&comma; and tell jokes&period; Additionally&comma; she will also offer &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;motivational messages” and users will be able to access a number of Issa’s unique sayings upon selecting her voice&period; To access it&comma; all you have to do is either change the voice in your assistant settings or by simply saying&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Hey Google&comma; talk like Issa&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Among the questions that will prompt some hilarious responses are&comma; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Do I need an umbrella today&quest;” and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Tell me a secret&period;” To make sure that you get as much of Issa as possible&comma; her voice will be available on any device that has Google Assistant&comma; including Google Home and Smart Display devices&comma; made possible by speech synthesis technology WaveNet&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>You can get Issa’s voice as the Google Assistant for a limited time in the U&period;S&period; right now&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Roommates&comma; 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