The news of a product that would be launched to compete with the Amazon echo had been in the talk for quite some time but no concrete information on the type of design that the device would have has been launched as yet.
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If Google Home lives up to its promise, and we won’t know for sure until this small, yet-to-be-priced, always-listening appliance shows up later in the year, then we’ll have another relevant voice-driven device inside the house to play music, control the appliances (Nest anyone?), and, yes, leverage Google’s expertise in search. “Google or Amazon will have knowledge about things you like”. It is going to be tethered to the “N” version of Android that Google plans to release later this year and requires more processing power and sensors unavailable in any phone already out.
Pichai even gave Amazon a shoutout during the announcement, “for creating a lot of excitement in this space”.
And as Google beefs up the capabilities of its Assistant for the billion-plus mobile devices running Android, it is also improving Home.
Facebook and Google aren’t the first to invest in A.I. and messenger-related chatty assistants. But in the end, Google Home could turn out to be a much more powerful device, and definitely not just an Echo clone. “[We’re] building each user their own individual Google”.
As the Internet of Things continues to be a growing market, more and more consumers are likely to start researching potential products to make their own homes smarter and more efficient, and devices like the Amazon Echo and Google’s upcoming Google Home are ideal for being at the center of things.
Google didn’t want to be left out of this season’s hottest new craze: bots!
Google also built the virtual assistant into Allo, an independent chat bot mobile app for smartphones.
But it also adds a somewhat cool, possibly sad, feature. “Now all of a sudden they caught up with you”, he said. The gadget will play music, communicate with other Google devices, and answer questions using Google’s AI assistant and its search engine, along with managing other Google products like Calendar and Gmail. “We also introduced a feature called “Knock Knock” which gives you a live video of the other caller before you answer”, the Indian-born CEO posted. It’s a great chance to catch them still fixing their hair. It will also chat directly with Google to find information or navigate.
Google’s home appliance has just been announced, meet Google Home.
A new motion controller for use alongside headsets was also revealed. Most importantly, it will support 72 new emojis. It will suggest responses to messages by reading and understanding people’s text conversations. It’s either a brilliant publicity stunt or an idea thought up by someone who doesn’t use the internet. It’s a big project that will eventually include both hardware and software. With this approach, the app runs on Google’s servers instead of your phone.
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Google home will be unveiled in an events to be held tomorrow by Google.
