Google Home costs $ 40 $ 51 less than an Echo — you really don't want to buy Amazon's $ 130 Tap — but if
you want multiple voice - control points throughout your home, it will be much cheaper to deploy a bunch of Echo Dots at $ 50 a piece (and less than that as long as Amazon's buy -5-get-one-free deal lasts).
Not exact matches
If you find that
multiple hubs offer all the standards you need, and you've decided whether or not you
want voice control, your next determining factor should be how easy the app is to use and how much that app can do.
Sonos
wants to be the one device that consumers can use with
multiple voice assistants, potentially simultaneously.
Her pulls off something brave in letting
multiple voices be heard — you don't walk out knowing exactly what Jonze
wanted you to learn.
But the other goodness of CUE remains, including a simplified LCD display that adds information and icons to the top and bottom of the screen when infrared sensors see your hand approach (photo right);
multiple inputs (USB, SD card); and reasonably good (for a car) natural language
voice recognition from Nuance, meaning you can phrase a command several ways and CUE can often still figure out what you
want.
If you
want to read ebooks, there are some extra features not available on Kindle ereaders, like the ability to use multicolored highlights, wordrunner, text - to - speech (with
multiple voices to choose from), immersion reading where it highlights text while playing the audiobook, and the HD 10 adds two column mode for landscape view, which is quite nice.
The purpose of all of that is to create a broad and, to the average reader, confusing array of
multiple voices all saying the same thing, and what they don't
want you to see is that behind all those tentacles is the same creature.
Sonos
wants to be the one device that consumers can use with
multiple voice assistants, potentially simultaneously.
While many broadcasters
wanted to get on the Echo first, the company's interactive
voice software platform makes it easy for radio stations to launch, operate, maintain and update their
voice apps across
multiple voice assistants.
On the
Voice Training screen, if you have
multiple Echo devices in your house, you'll
want to select the one that you're doing the
voice training on.