In an attempt to make low-cost feature phones smarter, Google plans to upgrade it's Assistant with "voice typing" for KaiOS - a Firefox based light operating system.
In a blog post, Google announced that the Google Assistant will Voice Typing "over the coming months," allowing KaiOS users to dictate text messages, web searches and basically anything else that uses a text box.
KaiOS and the Assistant can also be set to different languages, according to Google.
KaiOS is a spiritual successor to the ultimately doomed Firefox OS.
The company took the web-based platform and optimized it for cheap, non-touch devices in 2016.
Google had launched a primitive version of the Assistant, alongside Google Maps and search, on the KaiOS-powered Nokia 8110 4G, last year.
Four months later, it invested$22 million in KaiOS and promised to make its services available to all KaiOS users.
It was a surprising move KaiOS is based on Firefox, a chrome competitor - but made sense given how KaiOS appeals to the people who can't afford even the cheapest Android Go hardware.
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