How voice is becoming the fastest way to go online

Did you know Sundar Pichai still has panipuri cravings? Students of the Brihanmumbai municipal school in Andheri’s DN Nagar are now privy to that savoury secret after the Google boss’ visit here last week.

And when a student asked Pichai what it takes to be an engineer, the boy next doorturned-Silicon Valley pin-up said, “Do you have a radio and TV at home? When it gets old, just learn to break that apart.” It was the perfect photo-op. But Pichai used this opportunity to see how Bolo — a reader app powered by Google AI for textto-speech and speech recognition — works on the ground. He even tweeted, “Had the chance to visit some students today who are learning to read using Bolo, excited for all the great books they’ll discover.”