The Voice Assistant Battle!!

VOICE ASSISTANT

A voice assistant is a digital assistant that uses voice recognition, natural language processing and speech synthesis to provide aid to users through phones and voice recognition applications.

Voice assistants are used in help and service phone lines, smartphones and other places to assist users with tasks, including:

• Listening to an audiobook.
• Requesting information, similarly to inputting a search query.
• Making reservations.
• Adding items to a shopping list.
• Performing mathematical calculations.
• Playing music.

There are assistants like the google home and google home mini which uses google assistant to get the work done, the Apple home pod uses Siri, the Amazon Echo Dot uses Alexa, and finally Bixby uses its own software designed by Samsung. And there are some other assistants like Cortana which is developed by Microsoft. All of these assistants perform almost similar tasks by using there simple Artificial Intelligence (AI). 

1. Google Home :

The google home is a smart speaker designed by the smartphone giant Google. This smartspeaker uses the google assistant as its voice assistance sosftware. It can answer almost all simple and complicated questions, it can save reminders, its can control light appliances in home with the help of Philips Hue lighting, its can change the color of light appliances, it can play songs with the help of music apps like Spotify, gaana or saavan. It can play videos on TV with cgromecast plugged in with the help of apps like YouTube, NetFlix, AmazonPrime Video. It can tell the latest news by just recognizing your voice. We can also stream movies with chromecast plugged in. This Google home is everything with handsfree. It makes our work more easier. The sound quality is the best compared to other smartspeakers. It also comes with its smaller version called- Google home mini. The Google home is priced $129 and Google home mini is priced $49. Both the Google home and Google home mini have the same audio quality. 

2. Apple HomePod :

The Apple HomePod is a simple smart speaker designed by Americas multinational technology company- Apple. the size of the homepod is almost same to the Google home. The audio quality is also good. This Apple Homepod requires the "Apple Eco-System" which means it doesn't  work with third party apps like Spotify, Google PlayMusic and so on. It cannot cast videos to other TV's except the apple TV. 

It can play music only from iTunes. It can save reminders which all other assistants also do. It pairs easily with apple devices compared to other android devices. The Homepod uses Siri as its voice assistant which is also pretty good comparatively to the Google assistant. The apple home pod is priced very high for the given features. Its priced $349. But it doesnt perform any special functions other than the google assistant. You can see the above video by MKBHD, the best tech reviewer, explained about the "Apple Ec0-System" and its features.Like the Google Home mini it doesnt has any smaller version of it and its not available for India whereas the Google Home And the Google Home mini are available in India.

3. Amazon Alexa : 

Amazon Alexa is a smartspeaker designed by Amazon. Its very simple to use and paies all devices easily. Just like the Google home it has three different versions, the big one called-Amazon Tap, midium sized one called Amazon Echo, and a smaller one called Amazon Echo Dot. there is difference in the audio quality between all these three models. All these three models can perform similar functions just like other smartspeakers. Even Alexa can save reminders, answer questions but cannot answer complicated ones. The one function that Alexa can do but Google home and Apple homePod cannot do is it can place orders on Amazon shopping app. The Amazon Alexa Tap is priced $129, Amazon Echo is priced $99 and the Amazon Alexa Echo dot is priced$49. This smartspeaker can play music from Amazon Prime Music which requires annual subscription. It cannot perform most of the functions which the Google home and Apple HomePod do. But the Alexa is developing.

Conclusion 

All the smartspeakers are designed good, they have a good built-quality. Almost all these smartspeakers perform same functions and are priced economically. I prefer the Google home as the best voice assistant as it can answer all complicated questions very faster. The Google home is very user friendly and very easy to use and connect. Where as the Apple homepod requires everything made by Apple like iPhone, iTunes and Apple TV. The Amazon Alexa cannot answer most of the questions and complicated mathematical questions.So by this we can draw the conclusion that Google Home is the best smartspeaker. You can also see why google home is the best voice assistant and smartspeaker by seeing the video below by MKBHD : 

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