New Delhi: Google on Tuesday launched the Home and Home Mini smart speaker in India at an event in New Delhi. The Google Home smart speaker has been priced at Rs 9,999.
The Home speakers will be exclusively available online via Flipkart. The home speakers will support Google Play Music, YouTube, Netflix, Saavn, and Gaana.
Google last year rolled out a multitasking feature in its smart home speaker that makes it possible for the device to accomplish two different tasks at the same time.
Routines feature will fix this issue by allowing users to group multiple commands together under a custom phrase. This addition will essentially let the user bundle two requests into the same sentence instead of having to say one command at a time. However, the new two-command functionality has not been extended to the Google’s AI assistant that accompanies Android smartphones.
Google smart home speakers will rival Amazon’s cloud-based voice service “Alexa” in India.
Alexa delivers a customised Indian experience, including an all-new English voice with local pronunciations and intonation; support for music titles, names and places in additional non-English languages. Priced at Rs 9,999, “Echo” is a hands-free, voice-controlled speaker that allows users to access “Alexa” from anywhere in the room with far-field voice control.
It uses on-device software to detect the wake word, “Alexa”. When Echo detects the wake word, the device’s light ring turns blue and begins streaming the request to the cloud where “Alexa” processes the request.
Another device, “Echo Plus”, available at Rs 14,999, includes all the features of Echo, including room-filling sound powered by Dolby and a far-field microphone array, and adds a built-in smart home hub.
“Echo Dot” also uses the same far-field voice recognition as Echo. Priced at Rs 4,499, it has a sleek and compact design and comes in either black or white.
Source: Zee News