Nearly every Amazon Echo smart speaker can stereo pair with another Echo speaker. If you like Apple - and if Siri is your smart assistant of choice, or if HomeKit is your preferred smart home platform - you're going to love Apple's smart speaker.įor those who already use an iPhone, Apple TV or original HomePod, adding this smart speaker to the collection just makes sense. There are fewer HomeKit-compatible devices like that than there are devices that work with Alexa or Google Assistant, but that could soon change once the universal smart home standard Matter arrives later this year. When it comes to the smart home, Siri and HomePod Mini are limited to devices that work with Apple's smart home platform, HomeKit. Overall, Google still has the intelligence edge, and the Google Nest Mini is a great, low-cost way to take advantage of those smarts.Īpple's small, Siri-enabled smart speaker bridges a strange gap between its competitors with a $100 price tag like Google's Nest Audio and the Amazon Echo, and other, cheaper speakers that come in small packages like the Nest Mini and Echo Dot.įeatures like intercom, audio handoff and stereo pairing make this little smart speaker quite practical. Google Assistant can recognize multiple voices, so it'll give you and your spouse different answers if you each ask about your calendars, though Alexa can do this now, too. It responds more flexibly to voice commands if you can't remember the exact name of your smart home devices, and Google's grouped commands, called routines, work with more types of smart devices than Amazon's similar routines. Plus, per our tests, Google Assistant is slightly smarter than Alexa.
Google Assistant now has almost as many capabilities as Alexa, making the $50 Google Nest Mini a solid alternative to the Amazon Echo Dot if Google Assistant is your preference. At this point, picking between the lowest-price smart speaker devices from the two companies comes down to splitting hairs. Google has done an admirable job of catching up to Amazon in the smart speaker race.
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