Google Assistant sounds so human because Google made up a super-specific backstory for it

Whenever the cheerful female voice of Google Assistant responds to a query you have or to some other prompt, the interaction might seem pretty transactional to you. You take the info, you move on. But maybe you register for a half-second how natural-sounding the voice is. If you do, there's a super quirky reason for that. Google actually worked up a really, really specific backstory for the character of Google Assistant -- a bio that was given to the voice actress to help her get the sound of th...