Amazon Echo v.s. Google Home
The restrictions of handheld devices is over, voice-controlled AI is now. There are two very good responsive AI systems on the market, those being the Amazon Echo and the Google Home. The Amazon Echo is a device that is capable of playing music, ordering you an Uber and giving you directions. You can ask Alexa, which is the voice of the Amazon Echo many different questions such as, how far is pluto from the Earth. The Echo is convenient, but the size of it is not. It only comes in white or black which isn’t very versatile. The Google Home is smaller and more convenient and comes in different color making it have more options than the Echo. The Google Home isn’t as loud as the Echo but it delivers better sound quality.
The Google Home is better for giving you information from the web. Alexa is better at shopping-related things. Both can do things like spell words, set timers, and read you the news, but Google keeps you company with its conversational nature. Google has struggled with connecting to your home wifi, which can effect it's abilities to give you information from the web.
While the Google Home has 300 third-party skills,letting you order pizzas from Dominos and cars from Uber, Alexa has more than 11,000. Some of those Alexa skills can even handle Google accounts better than Google’s own system does. Alexa has voice calling, which lets you ask Alexa to call or send a message to anyone with a supported Echo device or the Alexa app. Meanwhile, Google has voice calls that can call actual phone numbers. Google can recognize up to 6 voices and switches between their accounts and preferences. When you have to tell Alexa “switch account to A” to switch accounts. Google can also synchronize audio between rooms when Alexa can’t.
The Google Home costs $129 and the Echo costs $179.99, and then there is the Echo Dot, which is $49.99. The Echo Dot is a smaller, more simple in the sense that it may have less abilities than the full sized and priced Echo. One may not fit your price range or maybe both of them fit. They both have good features and tricks but it’s really on what you like or your wants and needs in a device.
