Smart Compose in Gmail will have a feature to emulate native language later

Smart Compose in Gmail, a function to guess what people want to write in a mail and fill that in as an option, will later get an option to emulate your own language. That way, the suggestions should become more personal.

The team behind Smart Compose calls this ‘personal language models’, according to a blog post from Google. It’s still unknown when the feature will come to Smart Compose, Google just says the team is working on integrating that. There is no further explanation of the new feature, except that it is “designed to more precisely emulate an individual’s writing style” and incorporate that into the system.

Google announced the autocomplete feature for email last week at developer conference I/O. At least the feature works in English, but in the blog post, the search giant specifically points out that the system should work for all 1.4 billion Gmail users. As a result, it appears that Smart Compose will work in all languages ​​supported by Google.

The blog post further explains that Smart Compose must show suggestions for autocomplete within a hundred milliseconds to ensure that users save time with the feature. In addition, training the algorithm was complex, as they could not access user emails and thus had to use other utterances of language to train the algorithm. In addition, the developers value the prevention of embarrassing situations due to a bias in the suggestions, for example by suggesting undesirable things via autocomplete. Smart Compose should be available to all Gmail users later this month.