Google Home is the great alternative of those from Mountain View to face the Amazon Echo, the best device of this type of the moment that has come to sell 3 million units in the United States. A type of device with which you have to communicate with your voice to provide you with a series of functionalities from the comfort that can be lying on the sofa in your living room.
Amazon Echo has been a success for perform excellently well in certain vital aspects in which Google Home has to measure up to become an alternative series to the company owned by Jeff Bezos. If it meets the four qualities that it must have, many users will want to have the great experience that Google Now means on their Android phone from a hub that they can have on their living room table.
Its price
Google Home will be a device that you will have at home with which you can play music, set alarms and perform another series of features that we are used to from our Android phone. That said, when we have the option from our terminal, it would be interesting for Google to take care of the price.
Amazon Echo does not exceed $ 179 from this company's own store, so Google should sell it for a lower price. And more if we know that soon Amazon will launch another alternative for a price that will not exceed $ 90 and that will allow you to connect this gadget to any speaker you have in your home. Echo Dot provides the microphones and the external speakers take care of the sound. The other alternative from Amazon is Tap for $ 130, which is the portable version of the Echo.
So the Google option would go through be between $ 90 and $ 200 to make it a great purchase option.
Some microphones that work very well
This vitally important detail for a gadget that you have located in the center of your living room and that it has to "listen" to you when at certain meters you release a voice command. It does not have to be like a walkie-talkie, but rather it has to lend itself to offering certain comfort to the user so that while walking close to him when he goes to the kitchen, he can stop and change the alarm or put on any song without having to approach Google Home.
Echo has seven microphones and allows almost to communicate with him from a distance even with the doors closed. If we look at Apple's voice assistance option, its Siri, it is quite the frustration it causes by not hearing the user fairly well.
High quality loudspeaker
Although it may not be as important as the microphone, it is is a vital part of this device that the loudspeaker will use to offer all the information to the user. By having the ability to play music from Google Home, many users will use it for this reason, although you will always have the option of using external speakers as we knew in your presentation on Google I / O.
If we look at its direct competitor, Amazon Echo has omni-directional audio 360 degree and has the quality of being able to increase the volume appropriately.
Let your responses be quick
The truth that Google Now does a great job in this regard, so with Google Home we can expect the same user experience. It can be very frustrating for a voice assistant to take a long time to respond to you, such as Siri that still needs several seconds to respond to commands, something that cannot happen with Google Home to make it a success.
With one or two seconds delay it would be more than enough to become the best option before the competition. In this way it will provide a more natural experience as if we were really dealing with an assistant who is always waiting for our orders.
As the months go by, we will get to know more virtues on Google Home, so we'll stay tuned.