Google Home doesn’t just want to be an “Any Question Answered” toy. Now Google is trying to strike back.
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“The big question with Google Home, other than how it stacks up against Echo, is whether or not you’re comfortable with giving it so much access to your digital life”, writes Mr. With multiple units, Google will smartly understand which one you’re closest to – the device that hear’s you best – will respond. Intelligent voice-response systems are already the norm for many customer-service applications, and it’s only logical that similar applications would migrate to consumer products, especially when they’re fueled by companies like Google and Amazon, which have massive amounts of data at their disposal, and have invested billions in artificial intelligence. And Apple has Siri on the iPhone.
Google has taken a page out of the Apple playbook.
Strategy research indicates that the market will see annual shipments of 1.8 million units this year, growing to 15.1 million units by 2020.
Google Wifi is displayed during the presentation of new Google hardware in San Francisco, California October 5, 2016.
Are you sold on Google’s new Virtual helper or are you already an Echo fan?
For Google, Assistant, Home and its new Pixel smartphones are about being with the user in every step of their day.
The Pixel will be the first phone designed entirely by Google. Nest, Smart Things, Philips Hue and IFTTT are a few with support out of the gate. Finally, Google plans to release an Embedded Google Assistant SDK in 2017 to integrate Google Assistant into any kind of device, from consumer hardware to a Raspberry Pi. However, as Chromecast has aged and matured, Google’s made for a bigger push of the ability to be able to cast all sorts of media to your TV through the little Chromecast dongle. “Google Home will provide a natural language interface for all of the company’s services”. In a demonstration of the smart speaker, a user requested to play the song by Shakira from the movie Zootopia. “I don’t use Google and my wife doesn’t use Siri, but everybody talks to Alexa”, Bishop from Texas said. And the Google Assistant built into the speaker has been created to be able to find the track you want even if you aren’t sure of its name.
Google Home is open for pre-order today and will ship to retail stores on November 4.
Google Home is also basically a Chromecast Audio device, allowing users to send tunes from their phone to the Google Home’s speakers.
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The device can handle other tasks now found in Echo including calling up songs from YouTube or Spotify, stream music from your phone, and even play TV shoes once Netflix starts its voice support.
