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Google Home takes on Amazon's Alexa with souped-up software AI (CNET News)

2016-10-04
gooble home lets you enjoy music get answers from google manage everyday tasks and control devices around your home we went with a white top and a clean diagonal face for a neutral look that blends in in those rare moments when voice won't do the top surface is also capacitive touch panel you can simply use your finger to pause the music adjust the volume or trigger the Google assistant Google home was designed with a microphone system for accurate far-field voice recognition we've simulated hundreds of thousands of noisy environments and applied machine learning to recognize patterns that allow us to filter and separate speech from noise this enables us to deliver best-in-class voice recognition and minimize error rates the speaker in Google home sets the standard for audio quality in this new category it contains a forward-facing high excursion draw active driver with dual side facing passive radiators ok Google Play don't let me down by the chainsmokers don't let me down by the chainsmokers sure playing on YouTube okay google turn it down and the great thing is I never had to pull out a phone or deal with the clunky remote control but Google home supports many top music services including google play music Spotify Pandora tune in and soon I Heart Radio and now with Google home we give you an easy way to access the knowledge of Google in a hands-free way for example let's stay with the music theme for a second okay Google what is Adele's real name Adele's full name is Adele Laurie blue Adkins okay Google what are some nearby camping stores I found a few places within 8.6 miles the first one is the North Face on post Street in San Francisco the second one is Marmot on post Street in San Francisco the third one is REI on Brannan Street in San Francisco okay let's say I'm gonna go check out REI okay Google how's the traffic looking to REI on your way to REI there's the usual traffic you might want to take the route via tenth Street since it's slightly faster so for those of smart-home devices we've partnered with nest smart things Phillips you an IFFT to voice enable your lights switches and thermostats ok Google Play Katy Perry's latest music video on my TV alright rise from YouTube playing on chromecast ok Google watch videos of John Oliver on my TV sure playing John Oliver from YouTube on chromecast it's early days and we're gonna continue to improve it over time as we add more partners to support voice casting in fact we're excited to announce that Netflix will soon support voice casting via Google home so you'll soon be able to say ok Google watch stranger things on my TV ok stranger things play from Netflix on chromecast hands-free voice control combined with Google photos awesome image search capabilities means you can literally throw any photo on the TV in a really easy way so if you already have a high end audio system just plug in a $35 chromecast Audio and Google home will be able to voice control your speaker system without any wires or cables and all these features will also work with any Google cast enabled TV like Android TVs or Google cast enables speakers from our OEM partners
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