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The world is developing and we need to get on the train to the future. Thanks to advancements in Artificial Intelligence, smart speakers with built-in smart features AI-powered voice assistants continue to dominate the smart home market.
What Can Smart Speakers Do
Nowadays smart speakers can answer questions, set alarms, play music, games and control your smart home. The best thing about Smart Speakers is that they free up your hands and gets you away from your smartphone. With the presence of voice assistants, Alexa, Google Assistant or Siri, everything becomes easier.
You can ask and find out the weather just before you walk out of the house. You can play your favourite music as soon as you walk back in. The assistants can also read your recipes while cooking or play podcasts while you are relaxing.
If you have a smart home as well, you can turn off the lights or the TV without having to get up off the couch or bed.
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Here are some of the best smart speakers in the market;
Amazon Echo
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Amazon, partnered with the voice assistant Alexa supports up to 15,000+ skills. It also supports Spotify, Pandora, Amazon Music, Uber, Dominos and so many more. Probably the best thing about it is the ability to buy things off of Amazon with a simple voice command. It features a different and new look compared to the rest and is also much cheaper.
Apple HomePod
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The HomePod supports a limited amount of devices, namely, Apple Apps, Apple Music and HomeKit smart home products. This speaker is the best for people in the Apple space. It has great sound, a nice minimal design and high accuracy. It, however, does not support Bluetooth streaming.
Google Home
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The Google Home supports, Chromecast, Google Play Music, YouTube, Netflix, Google Services, Dominos and many more. The Google Home has a customizable base, a large song library and has an expanding hardware ecosystem. With access to YouTube, it excels as a great DJ tracking down as many songs as you can think of.
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