Google Home vs Amazon Echo Specs Comparison: Battle Of Two High-End Devices [Video]
Voice-controlled assistants are very popular at the moment. From iPhone's Siri, Google voice or Windows Cortana, this technology is advancing quickly.
However, two have recently come to prominence, Google Home and Amazon Echo. So, here's a comparison of the two of these to let you know on which one is better for you.
Both Amazon Echo and Google Home are voice-controlled speakers that allow you to call orders to them without the need to use hands. Both companies have opted for a tall, rounded design. But when it comes to aesthetics, the Echo is more bolts than Google Home's shapely and curved form, reports Cnet.
Amazon Echo is having a sleek, cylindrical form with a single LED ring light at the top. This device comes in both black and white, but no room for customization.
Google Home is somewhat fancier and it has a curved shape, reminiscent of a wine glass, which is apparently the inspiration. It's also smaller than Amazon Echo. The top of the speaker is sloped with four LEDs to let you know its working. Overall, Google Home is a pretty device with nice touches.
The controls in Echo are mechanical. It has a physical dial for volume and buttons for mute and activation. On the other hand, Google Home uses a capacitive touch control panel but does also have a physical mute button at the rear.
Both the Echo and Home needs to be plugged in to work. The limitation of this being that you'll need to seriously consider their locations in your home. However, Google asserts that tethering to an outlet makes Google Home a better speaker. So, visually the better device is "in the eye of the beholder." However, the customization ability of Google Home is certainly advantageous.
Amazon Echo incorporates the Alexa digital assistance and the Google Home comes with the not-so-creatively named Google Assistant. Alexa is renowned for her database of poor jokes and nerdy references, which are a nice touch and can understand simple commands, even a series of them, but they are fairly basic. Echo's standard search engine is Bing.
Naturally, Google Home uses Google's mature search engine, which is an advantage. This integration means that Google Assistant has little need for a wealth of information as it's built straight into Google's architecture. Google Home can also help you in converting your shopping list into a digital list for your smartphone later on.
Google Assistant also benefits from Google's two-way natural language processing algorithm. This allows Assistant to be context-aware enabling a more natural and less awkward list of commands.
According to Android Central, Amazon Echo is able to get much louder than Google Home without distortion, and handles spoken word and most instrumental music better. As a single speaker it is perfectly capable, but the speaker placement makes everything sound farther away.
On the other hand, Google Home will fill a room with music that sounds like it is coming from a more expensive speaker, but if is trying to fill a large space with music or big into podcasts, this isn't the best experience.
