One of the most successful devices launched by Google in 2016 will begin to make its way around the world as early as the second quarter of 2017. We refer to the permanently connected speaker Google Home.
As confirmed by Rick Osterloh, director of Google's hardware division, The company will start shipping the Google Home smart speaker in the UK sometime in Q2017 XNUMX.
Google Home will enter Europe through the British door
The Google Home smart speaker was launched in November 2016 in the United States at a retail price of $ 129. Since then, the company has undertaken a very aggressive marketing campaign in order to publicize the product to potential American customers, including paying five million dollars for the airing of a thirty-second-long ad during the Super Bowl finale.
Now we know that Google Home will reach the Old Continent through the usual door that the United Kingdom supposes in just a few months. Rick Osterloh, head of Google's hardware division, confirmed launch plans for the Google Home device in the UK at a statement to the BBC that took place during the Mobile World Congress 2017 that is being held in these companies in Barcelona, Spain.
The executive added that Google had a "huge advantage in artificial intelligence" which in turn gives the Google Home device a great advantage in being able to better interpret the questions that its owner will ask., compared to rival products like the Amazon Echo, which is already on sale in the UK.
osterloh has not yet revealed what the price will be to which the Google Home will be put on sale in the United Kingdom, nor has it provided a specific date for its arrival on the shelves.
The English language, undoubtedly one of the reasons for the arrival of Google Home to the British Isles
With its arrival in the United Kingdom, although in both territories, the United States and England, English is spoken, it will be quite interesting how the Google Home and its intelligent assistant based on voice commands Google Assistant are handled with the different accents and forms of expression used in British English compared to the English used in the United States. Without a doubt, not only the power of the United Kingdom market has been the reason why this will be the next territory to receive the Google Home, but also linguistic similarity that will minimize criticism for glitches, especially if you had opted for another territory with languages as different from English as German, Greek or Spanish.
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The news of the Google Home launch in the UK comes just after some new rumors have emerged surrounding the device. Amazon Echo and your smart voice assistant Alexa. According to information from various anonymous sources, and therefore we must "take it with a grain of salt", the sales giant Amazon is trying to get Alexa to be able to differentiate between multiple individual voices. This advance would be extraordinary because, while allowing a parent to make certain purchases using their voice, it could prevent children from doing the same by simply identifying that it is a specific voice.
And apparently, according to these anonymous sources, Amazon has been working on this feature since the summer of last 2015, although the status of the project is still unknown, nor when it will be added, nor if it will be added to Alexa already. the company's Amazon Echo speakers.
How about Google Home starting its expansion in the UK? Would you prefer it to be Spain? Are you planning to get one as soon as it goes on sale here?