Huawei wants to provide Celia voice assistant in HarmonyOS with generative AI

Huawei plans to improve the smart assistant Celia in its own HarmonyOS by adding a large language model to it. This should make the assistant smarter, according to a video shown by Huawei during a developer conference.

Huawei’s CEO Yu Chengdong showed a demo of the tool, writes Huawei Central. X, the former Twitter, is now also available to see a video in which a user asks a question to voice assistant Celia. It translates the spoken text into readable text and then provides a readable answer.

Huawei wants to present the new smart assistant at its own developer conference later this week. This is an update for Celia, the assistant that is standard in HarmonyOS, Huawei’s own version of Android. During the developer conference, Huawei announces HarmonyOS 4, making Celia smarter.

Like most tech companies, Huawei is also working on its own large language model, or LLM. The company released earlier this year Pangu 3.0 out. That will most likely be the model on which Celia is trained. However, it is not clear whether Celia can only handle Chinese or also other languages. It recently became clear that Google is working on generative AI in Assistant. There are currently no voice assistants that can be used on a large scale on smartphones.