Time Out Group plc New conversational app on the Google Assistant
30 November 2017 - 9:00PM
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Time Out launches conversational app on the Google Assistant
Planning your weekend or a night out in London? Time Out's new
conversational app for
the Google Assistant helps you find cool things to do in a new,
easy and playful way
London, November 30, 2017: You can now instantly discover the
best things to do in London via Time Out's new conversational app
on the Google Assistant. Starting today, users can "Talk to Time
Out" to get inspiration for a night out or the weekend ahead,
making it easier than ever to decide where to take your date, get
your culture fix, or what to explore.
Always at the pulse of the city, Time Out's editors curate
unique, high-quality content about the best events, restaurants,
bars, film, art, music and theatre for millions of people around
the world to discover. To access this content via the Time Out
conversational app, users can say "Talk to Time Out" on the Google
Assistant to start a fun and engaging two-way conversation. The
Google Assistant is available on eligible Android phones, iOS and
voice-activated speakers like Google Home.
People who want to be in-the-know about what is going on in the
city - whether at home not wanting to miss out, or already out on
the town with friends - can ask questions to Time Out like, "Ask
Time Out what I should do tonight?", "Are there any Christmas
markets?", "I want to go ice skating," "What's a good theatre show
this week?", "Where should I go on a date?", "What's a great
restaurant to go to tonight?", or, "Surprise me."
The app not only gives users instant recommendations, based on
Time Out editors' hand-picked things to do. It allows anyone to
have a conversation with 'their best friend in the city', with a
lot of local flavour and Time Out's signature personality built
into the dialogue. The creators of the conversation also hid
serendipitous gems into the experience to bring this playful tone
of voice to life (such as asking the app, "Where are you from?" or
"What's the word on the street?"). To make sure the app is seamless
and helpful, Time Out has worked closely with Google to design a
conversation that can address users' expectations in different
contexts. The smart design is built on Google's Dialogflow, which
uses machine learning and natural language processing to understand
voice and conversational input in a natural way.
Time Out launched its first magazine in 1968, and its website
over 20 years ago. Now the Google Assistant project is another
exciting platform development for Time Out to reach an
experience-hungry audience of millions of Android phone, iPhone and
Google Home users.
Sanjay Vakil, Time Out's Director of Product Development, said:
"We were very excited to develop a voice-activated Time Out
experience for the Google Assistant. As more and more people use
conversational platforms, it is a natural step for us to explore
the powerful channel of conversational UI and optimise our
inspirational content for voice. It allows us to help millions of
urbanites whenever and wherever they want great recommendations -
this is a technology which could change the way people go out and
discover the city.
"We are very proud of what we have developed in close
collaboration with Google; this joint project once again
demonstrates that we are serious about being at the forefront of
new technologies that make it fun and easy to experience the best
of the city."
Alice Zimmermann, Global Product Partnerships at Google,
commented: "We're at the beginning of a massive shift towards
conversational interfaces. Time Out has an extraordinary wealth of
local content tailored for different audiences including families,
singles, professionals, and couples. Since the Google Assistant
aims to make daily things easy - like deciding what to do - Time
Out is a great fit for our platform. The app makes it really
convenient to make positive changes in your social life, no matter
who you are."
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For further press information, please contact:
pr@timeout.com
About Time Out Group
Time Out is the leading global media and entertainment business
that inspires and enables people to make the most of the city.
Operating in 108 cities in 39 countries, it has an average global
monthly audience reach of 242 million across all platforms.
No one knows the city like Time Out because we've been
discovering the brilliant and searching out the secret and
extraordinary since 1968. If you want to know about food,
attractions, art, culture, shopping, nightlife, hotels and travel
then Time Out is your social companion. With a world-class digital
platform and top-quality curated content, Time Out connects brands
and local businesses to the city. Now Time Out Market is taking
that to the next stage, bringing the best of the city together
under one roof enabling people to discover, book and share their
experiences.
In the evolving digital world, our expertise and our growing
community of Time Outers and Tastemakers put the very best of the
city in the palm of your hand. We are global, and no one knows
local better than we do.
Since June 2016, Time Out Group is listed on London's AIM stock
exchange, trading under the ticker symbol 'TMO'.
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