Google's Home Audio Assistant Speaker "Google Home" helps you recognize and talk about conversations such as "turn on the electricity", "show the video on TV", "play music"

Assistant function speaker that Amazon can play music and reply to questions just by talking to you "EchoAlthough it sells, but Google also has a personal assistant home speaker that opposes Amazon from right "Google HomeWe announced.

Google Home
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"Google I / O 2016You can see the appearance of Google Home on the following movie.

Look out, Alexa, here comes Google Home - YouTube


At the developer conference "Google I / O 2016" held on May 19, 2016, a conversational assistant function with artificial intelligence etc. "Google Assistant" was announced. Personal assistant with enhanced Google Now, you will be able to speak to Google from anywhere, including smartphones, smartwatches, smart cars and smart TVs. You can read the details of Google Assistant in the following articles.

"Google Assistant" as a conversation assistant aiming at "users dedicated to each user", making full use of artificial intelligence, natural language processing technology and machine learning - GIGAZINE


And it was developed to use Google Assistant at home, Speech recognition speaker "Google Home". Google Home looks something like this. The living room · kitchen · bedroom and so on, it is designed to fit anywhere in the house.


Built-in speaker and microphone


The bottom of the speaker can be replaced with any color you like


There are few buttons, and the Google Assistant icon is displayed at the top only during the response.


You can see how you are using Google Home by following the demo below.

Google Home Demo - Google I / O 2016 - YouTube


Dad who is putting coffee talks to Google Home saying "Ok Google, putting a morning playlist".


Then morning music began to flow. Also say "Ok Google, play music in every room" ... ...


Network speakers connected to Google Home were operated, and the same music began to sound in children's rooms.


My mother preparing to go out talks to Google Home to check the schedule of the day and send a message to a friend.


A daughter caught in a speaker came.


My son spoke to me saying "Hey Google, turn on the light of my son's room" because my son does not come up.


Then the light connected to Google Home was turned on remotely, the son finally got up.


Meanwhile, my daughter is doing homework that I had forgotten in a hurry. Quietly says "Ok Google, what do you say apple is Spanish?", I heard the answer to Google Home.


The son who woke up and came to the living room is asking, "Ok Google, how many stars are in the galaxy, the brightest star?"


The son who heard the reply asked, "Will it show me to me on TV?" Then YouTube was projected on TV.


"Ok Google, how is the traffic to the airport feel?", "It's pretty heavy traffic to the airport, it takes about 1 hour and 35 minutes, I answered the details to my smartphone."


Just by placing Google Home at home like this, you can access Google Assistant from anywhere and operate IoT equipment without touching it. Two types of calls are "Ok Google" and "Hey Google". Please note that Google Home will be sold at the end of 2016, prices are unknown, but Amazon Echo$ 179.99 (about 19,800 yen)It is expected that it will be similar price range.