{"id":11339,"date":"2016-10-07T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=11339"},"modified":"2016-10-07T15:40:19","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T15:40:19","slug":"google-home-speaker-takes-amazon-echo-face-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/google-home-speaker-takes-amazon-echo-face-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s Home speaker takes Amazon Echo face on"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The Google Home speaker is a home speaker\/assistant that plays music, organises your life, answers your questions and more &#8211; kinda exactly like Amazon Echo.<\/h4>\n<p>With Google launching a home speaker they&#8217;re taking on rival tech giant and current leader of home speakers, Amazon. The <a href=\"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/amazon-echo-speaker\/\">Amazon Echo<\/a> has been available for over a year now so if Google plan to take the market they&#8217;re going to have to one up Amazon, which they already have\u00a0done with pricing.<\/p>\n<p>At $129 Google Home is $50 cheaper than the Amazon Echo but it needs quality to truly compete. When we <a href=\"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/google-home-googles-answer-to-the-amazon-echo-home-speaker-and-ai-assistant\/\">first reported on Google Home<\/a> it boasted strong audio quality that is &#8220;ready to fill the room&#8221; with &#8220;strong bass and clear highs&#8221;. The Google Home also has Cast connectivity so you can connect it to Chromecasts for a multi-speaker experience. As audio quality is one of the Echo&#8217;s most critiqued elements Google already have the upper hand.<\/p>\n<p>The built-in voice activated AI is an upgraded version of Google Now so you have the entire web at your fingertips behind a clever virtual assistant. It can also tap into Google for weather forecasts, real time\u00a0traffic info, and mostly anything you could want an answer to. Whether it&#8217;s AI will beat Amazon&#8217;s Alexa will have to be seen when it releases in November but I would expect a similar experience from both.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Google Home is a $129 speaker to compete with Amazon Echo\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/efCCvH0XS_Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It will have to be seen how successful Google Home is in the face of Amazon Echo&#8217;s established brand but with a lower price point and better sound quality Google have a good chance of competing alongside, if not surpassing, Amazon. 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