If you are thinking of acquiring one of these new Gadgets that are becoming so fashionable in recent months, smart speakers with built-in assistants, I advise you to take a look at this video-post since in it we make an intense comparison between two of the most popular on the market. We are talking about Amazon Echo vs. Google Home.
With this real-time comparison, the only thing we want here at Androidsis is to show you all the good and all the bad that each of these smart devices offers us. so that you have the last word of which one you are most interested in buying according to your specific needs and utility that you are going to give. This apart from, as I always do, get wet giving you my most sincere opinion about each of the sections in which we have dueled Amazon Echo VS Google Home, or what comes to the same thing, Alexa VS Google Assistant.
Design and quality of materials
In terms of design we are facing two products with first quality construction materials, although I personally find the design of the Amazon Echo more striking, Echo Dot and Echo Spot, in this case the Echo looks much more elegant in its finishes than the Google Home.
Regarding its design, and this is my personal opinion, I see that it adapts much more to the different environments of our homes. three different colors in which we have available the Amazon Echo models in its three variants or models.
Sound quality and power
Regarding the sound quality, here I have to be very clear about my personal opinion and contrasted with other users who have been able to try the Amazon Echo and the Google Home, and that is in terms of power, sound clarity and powerful bass the Amazon Echo gives the Google Home a good review.
All this taking into account that the Echo model from Amazon can be obtained for only 99 euros while the Google Home comes out for 149 euros, which comes to be 50 euros more the Google Home than the Amazon Echo.
If the main use that you are going to give the smart speaker you are looking for is to listen to music, then I advise you to decide on The Amazon Echo since in sound quality, as they say vulgarly, it gives pal hair to the Google Home.
Virtual assistant: Conversations, speech and language recognition
As for voice recognition, the active microphone on both terminals is powerful enough so that it is activated after listening to the command from anywhere in a house or small flat, raising the tone a little. When I refer to a flat or small house, I mean about 70 or 80 square meters.
Another thing is in terms of language, both in the voices of both attendees and in the ability to understand what we say beyond sticking to specific commands or words.
It is in this sense that once again I have to opt for the Amazon Echo and its assistant Alexa, an assistant that is able to analyze the phrase you say to get the corresponding command without having to stick to the specific words.
Although in the sense of voice recognition and the analysis of the phrases that we say to these assistants, Alexa behaves much better, What undoubtedly beats the Google Home is in the integration with other devices such as Chromecast or the applications that we have installed on our Android.
In this respect, Google Home has full integration with YouTube, Google Play Music, Netflix or even Spotify in its free version without having to contract the Premium service to be able to listen to our favorite Playlists through Google Home.
Home automation: Control of connected appliances, lighting and plugs
Here, due to the aforementioned recognition of the language in which the Echo is clearly superior thanks to its assistant Alexa, I have to decide and opt once again for Amazon's smart speaker as it is much better at interacting with our connected smart devices.
For example, if I have a device called "Dining Room Light" while I have Google Home I have to stick to saying "Turn the dining room light on or off" or "Turn the dining room light on or off", the Echo with its assistant Alexa is capable to understand complex phrases like "Could you do me a favor by turning off the dining room light? o Can you turn off the dining room light?
Skills: Integrated games and applications
In this part, although both terminals have practically the same Skills or connected applications and services, the Google Home has one thing in which for me it is much better than the Amazon Echo, and that is that while In the Amazon Echo you have to activate the Skills that really interest you, in Google Home you do not have to perform any kind of action to enjoy all the Skills, applications and games that it offers us.
On the other hand in the execution of the Skills, especially in more complex applications or games, the Amazon Echo with Alexa is once again superior to the Google Home with its Google Assistant, an assistant who in this particular sense is still very, very green.
My personal opinion
After using both terminals for about a couple of weeks, for value for money, sound quality, design and materials or the voice assistant itself, I personally prefer the Amazon Echo and Alexa since it is much more workedToo bad it does not include the integration offered by Google Home to control Chromecast, Netflix and other applications that we can control with Google Home.