Google is eventually launching a new smart speaker, and it’s a complete design. The new Google Home Speaker includes a new flattened circle shape, new color, a new light ring, and many new AI -powered features.
Announced this week, as well as a major update of Gemini infected with its Google Home Smart Home Platform, the speaker will also run a new Gemini Voice Assistant instead of Google Assistant. This spring will not be available until 2026, but I got an initial look in New York City last week.
Diggling the nest of the nest and nesting audio nests – a completely new design is presented in the Google Home Speaker. . At 99.99, it is larger than a mini but smaller than audio, which has a home -like mini -shaped size, but wide and flatter. The speaker is launching in four colors: white, gray, green and red. I was particularly taken with the red red color, which is bright and bold – the sound of the nest far from the mud orange of the nest.
360 degree audio features, speakers Apple and Amazon are catching rivals offers from voice war. I have heard that he heard Ersmith’s “I don’t want to remember anything” with clear sounds, good mids and some decent boss. You can do two pairs of stereo sound and connect them to Google TV streams for a sound around the TV – though I didn’t get it a demo.
Gemini has the basic interface for the speaker, and has been significantly upgraded from Google Assistant.
Google says the speaker was “designed from the ground -up” to support Gemini for home, Google’s new smart home platform that holds AI Front and Center. It will also support Google’s new Voice Assistant, Gemini, and Gemini Live, a paid version that offers more exchanging AI chat boot experience. It is also a Google Home Hub, a substance -controlled, and a thread border rotator, which allows smart home devices to connect and control smart home devices in Google Home.
Google Home Invisor Cutocarin tells me that the speaker has the customs processing properties for Gemini and that remote field microphones have been improved. In addition, there is also a light color ring, another feature that is also available to Apple and Amazon’s smart speakers. Located at the bottom of the device, the color changes the color to indicate when Gemini is listening, thinking or responding.
I noticed that several new speakers respond directly to both Gemini and Gemini. The latter need to say “Hey Google, Chat”, request it, while the former still responds to “Hey Google” (and Only “Oh Google”). Gemini has the basic interface for the speaker, and has been significantly upgraded from Google Assistant.
I was unable to apply for myself because the speakers are sound matching (it can work with six people as well as guests in the house). I saw Tester asking what was the alternative to Vanilla’s synthesis and heard that Gemini offers several usable suggestions. Then it was asked to create a shopping list with ingredients for an authentic pad, which he pushed forward.
I have written more about Gemini’s abilities here, but my way (on very rails) is my way to the demo that the voice assistant is more exchanged, is able to understand the natural language, and has more access to real -time information, all of them should make it more useful. However, I will definitely not know until I can test it myself.
I am most excited to try this natural language control interface with smart home devices, which I enjoy using Alexa’s Plus, Amazon’s LLM -powered upgrades with its voice assistant. Kitcarn tells me that with Gemini, you do not have to use the exact name to get the work devices tools to work, can combine multiple commands without specific names (so “make thermostat to 68 degrees” instead of making it warm “), and using the exceptions (all the lights in the bedroom).
The demo I saw with Gemini Live seemed to be more limited in the context of the house. Directly does not need to repeat the Week words, move back and forth, but the conversation was not different from those who can do the gym directly on your phone or computer with a chat boot. There is nothing special for the house here.
Tester asked Gemini to help create a prescription using eggs, spinach, fat and bread. He began to answer, then he interrupted it and asked him to make a dish. After that he again obstructed, and asked him to become a friend of Kid. Chatboat was able to understand the barriers based on new instructions and easily understand the axis.
Gemini live cannot take any action, so it is a complete chat boot in the speaker.
However, this nest could not draw a prescription on the Hub Max screen, on which he was demoting the experience, or sending it to your phone. Gemini live cannot take any action, so it is a complete chat boot in the speaker.
Katkran says access to live in a smart speaker “like your counter -top or 1000 experts in your bed table or in the room living in the room.” Its counter is something that is my smartphone. However, Google’s long -term plan is to bring everything to Gemini with Gemini today. He says, “This is the world we are building.” Only when matters can really start to become interesting.
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