Google Home, a small speaker you can converse with using natural language, is an ambitious way to weave the company’s search engine and artificial intelligence into every fabric of your daily life. The company announced the new product today onstage at its I/O developers conference, and it will be available later this fall.
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More than anything, Home represents Google’s answer to Amazon’s competing voice assistant Alexa and the myriad number of devices and services Alexa runs on and connects to. In a video released today, Google laid out how it imagines people will communicate with its software to do everything from play music in the morning and check the weather to changing dinner reservations and sending texts.
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