Asia’s first stock exchange and now world’s fastest stock exchange with the speed of 6 microseconds, took another initiative towards digitalisation, whereby Subhash Chandra Garg, Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs, Minister of Finance, Government of India launched Google Assistant service to make BSE market data easily accessible to investors. The leading exchange believes that voice conversation is a key interface of future, for which it has kick started its services in English first and plans to extend its services in regional languages in the near future.
BSE has released following data / content services on Google Assistant. Now, one can converse for:- Indices, Stock Prices, Corporate Announcements, Board Meetings, Corporate Actions, Company Results, Gainer & Losers, 52 Week High / Low, New Listing, Forthcoming IPO and much more.
All Android and iOS mobile devices with Google Assistant can avail these features. Users can also download Google Assistant from Google Play and App Store, respectively. Users do not need to download any application for using voice skills of BSE. All that one has to do is say – “Talk To BSE” Or “Ask BSE” to invoke the solution and start the conversation on Google Assistant.
Speaking on the new service, Ashish Kumar Chauhan, MD & CEO, BSE said, “We are proud to announce the launch of BSE Assistant. BSE has always been at the forefront in adoption of technology-based advancements and launch of the voice assistant marks yet another significant initiative in BSE’s endeavour to add to seamless customer experience. Our goal is to amplify human ingenuity with intelligent technology by infusing AI in everything we do.”
IT Mines is the voice technology partner of BSE, which has been instrumental in building the current solution covering both conversational design and development.