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9 years ago
Google Home
Fresh off the launch of the Google Pixel , the new Google Hardware division is back with its second product: Google Home, a voice command appliance and Google Cast-enabled speaker. There is basically no interface at all to this product-it's all voice commands, all the time.
Pros:
- The "OK Google" hotword performance is absolutely incredible
- It always answers, and all your other hotword capable devices hive mind together to intelligently pick a single device to respond to you, A great media product
- For audio there's a loud, crisp speaker, and a great mesh audio capability.
Cons:
- Most of my favorite voice commands from the Google app don't work-no reminders
- messages
- or creating calendar events
- Do you want to know exactly what voice commands are supported for each service and function? Nobody knows!
9 years ago
Living with Google Home
The Google Assistant has been bundled into the browser, added into Android, and squeezed into Android Wear: now, it's getting a sleek object d'art for the smart home. Google Home is the search giant's take on the smart speaker space, a direct challenge to everyone's current favorite virtual PA,...
9 years ago
Review: The Google Home invasion
There's little question that some sort of voice response device that controls a home tech ecosystem is inevitable. Google Home is the best of them today: The best physical design, the best database behind it, the most "natural" because it can retain the context of the last couple of exchanges.
Pros:
- Attractive design
- "conversational" search
- backed by Google's immense database
Cons:
- Large power brick
- conversational search is still limited
9 years ago
Google's new smart speaker is at once a secretary, a librarian and a radio. Ask about your day, and the Home speaker will give you the time, weather, estimated commute, the news and upcoming calendar appointments. It will convert miles into feet, and dollars into euros.
9 years ago
Video: Google Home Review
Google is moving into new product categories that push the boundaries of what search will mean to us in the future. Once a simple white box with colorful letters above, Google search has become a very real part of our every day lives, and as such is playing an increasingly more important role in our...
9 years ago
Review: Google's Home invasion
There's little question that some sort of voice response device that controls a home tech ecosystem is inevitable. Google Home is the best of them today: The best physical design, the best database behind it, the most "natural" because it can retain the context of the last couple of exchanges.
9 years ago
Google Home: The Gizmodo Review
It's late, I've just plugged the Google Home voice assistant in, and I've got a fridge full of pumpkin and pie crusts and Thanksgiving is three weeks away. "OK Google, how do I make a pumpkin pie?
9 years ago
I got a Google Home voice activated speaker and wow… is there room for improvement
I've been using Google Now/Google Assistant for quite a while and have become used to the quirks of the fairly unimpressive Alexia third party interface I've had for a few months, so when a lot of allergy medication muddled my senses I decided to run to Target to get a Google Home voice activated...
9 years ago
You're never on your own with Google Home
Let me first of all describe my own internet setup here in Oxford and that will give you some idea of my conundrum. Or is it a dilemma You can ask Google H to define a conundrum. And a dilemma. Oh and sometimes it uses Britannica as a source and at other times Wikipedia.
9 years ago
Google Home Review
Google reinvented the wheel when it came to the Chromecast. A small, inexpensive piece of hardware that changed the way we used our television. Can they do it again with a speaker that hopes to change the way we deal with life?
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