Google Home looks like a candle or a piece of artefact that will most probably blend with the other stuff at your home. Also, Google offers a swappable lower bottom so you can choose the one that suits your home décor. The device also doubles up as a full-fledged wireless speaker and lets the users access music from various services including YouTube Music, Spotify, Pandora, Google Play Music, Tunein and iHeartRADIO. Though Google Assistant has been amusing so far, the contextual approach and the way it links up with the Google Knowledge graph are laudable. As one could witness in the demo, by querying “OK Google, Play that Shakira song from Zootopia” the device figured out the title of the song all by itself and played it. So this means that a single unknown in the equation is not a problem for Google Home.
Google Home will also double up as Chromecast Audio speaker and will support nest, Samsung Smarthings, Philips and IFFTT. Another useful feature is that the device hearing you best will respond when you say “Ok Google” so that it won’t result in sheer chaos. Unlike SIRI Google Assistant is heavily contextual and it communicates with the app on your behalf instead of just leading you to the app. Google Home is already up for preorders and will be shipped starting from 4th of November.
