Google Home Mini vs Amazon Echo Dot: the weigh

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Google launches new £49 smart speaker to rival Amazon's Echo Dot
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07 October, 2017

Sleek and smooth, the Mini is reminiscent of Amazon's budget-priced Echo Dot, which is created to pair with separate Bluetooth speakers. The Google Home Mini is also more stylish than the Echo Dot as in comes in Chalk, Charcoal and Coral colour variants.

When will you be able to give Spotify voice controls a try? Recently, Google's voice assistant can recognize different voices so that multiple members of a household can, for example, retrieve their own calendar.

The Max sits on the higher end of the spectrum for price and, according to Google, sound quality, too.

So how do you decide between them? If you have a Nest Thermostat on your account, you'll most likely need to unlink and re-link your Nest account in Assistant. It's about a fifth of the size of the standard Google Home. You get the idea. In my initial tests, the Google Home Mini's speaker seems both a little louder and a touch clearer than the Dot's. But their main objective is being your voice-controlled hub for other speakers. But it lacks an auxiliary port, which the Dot has.

You don't get any of the bass you get with Google Home, but if you're music isn't thumping bass tones then the Home Mini is a great casual listening device.

The four dots mean this Google Home Mini is at maximum volume.Matt Weinberger/Business InsiderBoth devices also carry some corporate synergies.

Both will happily play tunes, and on our first listen the Home Mini had the slight edge in sound quality. It's a matter of taste. Well, to answer that, I'm going to have to take a big step back and explain why I like the Google Assistant better than Amazon Alexa. If you buy the Google Home Max in the United States you will get 12 months of YouTube Music which also includes YouTube Red subscription.

You can enable Alexa "skills", or apps, that extend its knowledge and functionality - skills for recipes, for games, and trivia, and relaxation. Moreover, whether will it work with Google translate or not, so if you're trying this do let us know about your experience and spread the word.

Which is why I like the Google Assistant, and thus Google Home, better. You can also hold down on the middle of the Home Mini to trigger the voice assistant. And yet, Google Home is my favorite.


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