smart speakers
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Google Home Mini Recovers Some Touch Controls After Creepy Spying Bug
Thanks in large part to the low-cost Echo Dot, Amazon grabbed an early lead in the smart speaker space. But this spring Google hit back hard with the Home Mini, which has become the best cheap smart speaker to buy for most people. Unfortunately, shortly after its launch, a bug affecting the top touch controls in…
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Some Apple HomePod Sounds Leak, And Boy Are They Soothing
Look, I don’t really care about Apple’s upcoming HomePod because even though it might sound fantastic, I’m not convinced I need to drop a few hundred dollars on yet another smart speaker. Even so, I appreciate a job well done, no matter how small, and the person or people responsible for the status sounds for…
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Google Home Mini: The Gizmodo Review
It’s almost unfair that most of the world met our voice-controlled future in the form of an Amazon Echo. Sure, the gadget works, but damn is it ugly. The Google Home was better but still sort of silly-looking. That’s why the sleek, minimalist Google Home Mini feels like a revelation.
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The Sonos Smart Speaker Is Finally Here
At long last, Sonos is ready for small talk. The wireless speaker company — whose gloss has dulled as Amazon, Google and soon Apple have released increasingly decent “smart” speakers over the last couple of years — is finally releasing a speaker with built-in voice commands. It’s called the Sonos One and it comes with…