Ef­fec­tive June 13, 2023, Google will shut down all so-​called “con­ver­sa­tional ac­tions” for their Google As­sis­tant. That means that every ac­tion that in­volves a speech di­a­log, like food or­der­ing, games, ed­u­ca­tional apps, story telling, in fact, every ap­pli­ca­tion that re­quires ques­tions and an­swers, will be can­celed.

The only ac­tions re­main­ing will be smart home ap­pli­ca­tions, app and media ac­tions, and ac­tions from web con­tent. So ef­fec­tively, the Google As­sis­tant is then crip­pled down to a sim­ple command-​and-control in­ter­face.

That step might be con­se­quent, though, be­cause the num­ber of con­ver­sa­tional ac­tions was never very big and their qual­ity, at least in my ex­pe­ri­ence, was never very good. This is a bit sur­pris­ing be­cause the Google As­sis­tant is, in fact, present in any An­droid smart­phone and the po­ten­tial mar­ket is huge.

That’s it, Alexa, you can take it from here.