Echo Vs Google Home Reddit

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Echo vs google home reddit. That s why i bought a gh and i had a 55 credit at lowes google can do everything alexa can do and more. If you don t have a preference either way overall both tend to be on sale or bundled often so go whichever is cheaper and or bundled with stuff you want. So if budget matters the echo might be a better option. So far everyone likes google home better.

I have a personal domain with g suite from way back in the day. I use smartthings to control my whole house of z wave devices and it works far better than echo. With its skills echo offers far more features than google home although not all of echo s skills will appeal to you. Thinking of getting google home when it arrives later this year.

But keep in mind that the echo starts at 80 compared to 100 for the google home. Google home gets better every day. The new baseline of the alexa hardware experience is the second generation echo which is shorter th. In isolation the max sounds decent enough but when put in a ring against the cheaper sonos one and homepod it s obvious just how much compression it puts on vocal and mid tone tracks in the interest of big booming sound.

I got tired of most of my questions not being able to be answered. Echo does many things well specifically timers alarms and responding to music requests but it does poorly with search. I m always plagued by not being able to do stuff like check my calendar set reminders share my google home with my wife at her gmail etc. Google home is actually forgiving when i say to turn off all the lights.

I have 3 echo dots and 4 google homes 2 minis. Or turn the kitchen on. The google home max is an embarrassment of a speaker for its cost. All my home automation stuff is on there including my google home devices.

Just this week it has learned to differentiate what it can do on my phone and on the unit itself. Personally i find that google home gives better responses but i feel the echo is more natural to interact with 2 trigger words vs 1 i e. Part of the problem is probably the fact that echo uses bing. As for shopping i didn t order off of my echo much but i use the google home to add things to my google keep shopping list all the time and it makes my trips to the store much easier.

Either way you can find them both online and offline. I ve had the echo dots since dec of last year. Here are some areas where amazon echo differs from google home. I suspect it s google now search will be significantly better at search queries than echo.

Echo also makes use of skills which are app like features. It did most everything else i needed but it couldn t answer most questions.