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In my experience, Google Home is way better than Alexa. The voice recognition ability on Google Home (like my Android phone) is top notch and its integration wi

In my experience, Google Home is way better than Alexa. The voice recognition ability on Google Home (like my Android phone) is top notch and its integration with YouTube Music is awesome. I can ask it to play regional language songs and because it knows my YouTube History, it simply works. Also, I use Android Auto and am able to take Google Assistant seamlessly there too including the ability to play any music on demand by just instructing Google Assistant. It really is magical. I don't know how Amazon can even compete in this.

Abishek_Muthian 8y ago
'Mechanical Turk', Amazon's secret (or not so?) sauce to create data sets to compete against the king of all data sets - Google. Plus, the product placement of echo devices gave Amazon a free run until Google Home happened. Still, what Amazon pulled of against an algorithm company like Google is still impressive.
verelo 8y ago
I find Amazon gets my voice significantly better than my GH, but I agree with you otherwise. I find the GH is much more useful, the Alexa doesn't seem capable of doing anything significant for me and it sits there never been talked to by anyone in the house.
sjg007 8y ago
ok... you’re enthusiasm is a little too much.
brink 8y ago
I just sold my Alexa for a Google Home. My experience can be summarized by this. Me: "Hey Alexa, what's the weather?" Alexa: gives the full weather report Me: "Hey Alexa, what's the high today?" Alexa: gives the full weather report Me: "Hey Alexa, is it supposed to be sunny today?" Alexa: gives full weather report Me: "Hey Google, what's the high today?" Google: "The high temperature in your location is predicted to be 82" Me: "Hey Google, is it going to rain today?" Google: "No, it's not forecasted to rain." I've had an Alexa for over a year now and it's never changed or gotten "smarter" towards any of my questions. Eventually I just gave up and switched.
- blantonl 8y ago
  My experience can be summarized by this: Me: "Alexa, tell Harmony to tune to CNN" Alexa: turns on the TV, and tunes it to CNN. Me: "Alexa, what alarms do I have set?" Alexa: tells me I have a weekday alarm set for 5:30 AM Me: "Alexa, set the bedroom temperature to 75 degrees" Alexa: sets the temp to 75 degrees in the bedroom Me: "Alexa, turn on the great room" Alexa: turns on the great room lights Me: "Alexa, turn off the office light" Alexa: turns off my study lights Me: "Alexa, turn on the whole house" Alexa: turns turns on every light in the house Skill integrations include: Harmony, Lutron, etc. YYMV. But we have one Alexa device in every room (8 devices total) and our biggest issue is waking her up when talking "about" her.
  - brink 8y ago
    I do agree that one thing that Alexa does get right is smart device management.
  - jvolkman 8y ago
    These all seem like table stakes. My Home can do all of these, but I just have to say "hey Google, turn on CNN" instead of the awkward "tell harmony" thing.

Abishek_Muthian 8y ago

'Mechanical Turk', Amazon's secret (or not so?) sauce to create data sets to compete against the king of all data sets - Google. Plus, the product placement of echo devices gave Amazon a free run until Google Home happened. Still, what Amazon pulled of against an algorithm company like Google is still impressive.

verelo 8y ago

I find Amazon gets my voice significantly better than my GH, but I agree with you otherwise. I find the GH is much more useful, the Alexa doesn't seem capable of doing anything significant for me and it sits there never been talked to by anyone in the house.

sjg007 8y ago

ok... you’re enthusiasm is a little too much.

brink 8y ago

I just sold my Alexa for a Google Home. My experience can be summarized by this. Me: "Hey Alexa, what's the weather?" Alexa: gives the full weather report Me: "Hey Alexa, what's the high today?" Alexa: gives the full weather report Me: "Hey Alexa, is it supposed to be sunny today?" Alexa: gives full weather report Me: "Hey Google, what's the high today?" Google: "The high temperature in your location is predicted to be 82" Me: "Hey Google, is it going to rain today?" Google: "No, it's not forecasted to rain." I've had an Alexa for over a year now and it's never changed or gotten "smarter" towards any of my questions. Eventually I just gave up and switched.

blantonl 8y ago
My experience can be summarized by this: Me: "Alexa, tell Harmony to tune to CNN" Alexa: turns on the TV, and tunes it to CNN. Me: "Alexa, what alarms do I have set?" Alexa: tells me I have a weekday alarm set for 5:30 AM Me: "Alexa, set the bedroom temperature to 75 degrees" Alexa: sets the temp to 75 degrees in the bedroom Me: "Alexa, turn on the great room" Alexa: turns on the great room lights Me: "Alexa, turn off the office light" Alexa: turns off my study lights Me: "Alexa, turn on the whole house" Alexa: turns turns on every light in the house Skill integrations include: Harmony, Lutron, etc. YYMV. But we have one Alexa device in every room (8 devices total) and our biggest issue is waking her up when talking "about" her.
- brink 8y ago
  I do agree that one thing that Alexa does get right is smart device management.
- jvolkman 8y ago
  These all seem like table stakes. My Home can do all of these, but I just have to say "hey Google, turn on CNN" instead of the awkward "tell harmony" thing.