Google launches counterpart Amazon Echo

- Google comes with physical voice assistant. The device (Google Home), which looks suspiciously like the Echo of Amazon, is a kind of speaker where you can ask all kinds of questions. Google has launched the Home during the developer conference Google I / O in Mountain View.

The technology behind Home, Google simply called 'assistant', seems at first glance a combination of 'Ok Google,' Google Now and Google Translate. At home can be asked anything. So you home more questions to put on your favorite music, your smart thermostat to turn a great bearing or ask what the evening comes on TV. What Google Home according to the company is doing better than, say, the Echo of Amazon is that it can be connected to existing devices from Google. So you can connect to your home Chromecast dongle. That way you can for example put the sound of your speakers with your voice louder or softer.

Another unique feature of Google's new voice technology is that it is fueled by a variety of external services. So Google has announced partnerships including Spotify, WhatsApp, Uber and Ticketmaster.
  
    
     
      
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In terms of prevention does Google home a bit like a small flower vase. It is a two-tone tube the size of a hand. When home really comes on the market, Google has not let lemonades. Provisionally keeps the company in a release 'sometime in the second half of 2016.