Amazon Alexa vs Google Home

thedoc46 said:
i have an amazon echo, which im ready to throw out the window. i use it to turn on a light, and 70% it doesn't do as i tell it. Its quicker for me to get my arse up and turn the light on myself.
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Do you have the language set to US English? If you're an expat it should work better if you set it to UK English.
 
tres said:
I picked up the google home hub and 3 minis today, thought I'd see if they're better than amazon echo.



Agreed, the app is horrendous. Took me so long to find the routines section. Can't believe they thought this was user friendly.
Hey google is much easier than OK google, but still not as slick as Alexa.



Ah, I thought this was the best bit about the set up - everything just... works. TV etc. Smoother and works 100% of the time (so far) compared to very hit and miss with Echo.



Me too!


So far:
Pros:
Better speaker in the mini vs gen 2 dot
looks nicer
complete integration with my google calendar/emails/youtube etc
the home hub is probably overpriced for what it is, but looks good and I'll be getting a second for the kitchen
multiroom audio & casting from mobiles is great
Routines look much better - turn off all lights, check my alarm time then give me 15 minutes of sleepy rain sounds before fading out, great

Cons:
The hub only works with the nest camera, not sure if this is any better on the Show
Lack of 'skills' but not found anything yet I can't do that I'd want a skill for
"Alexa" is nicer than "Hey google"
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Small world! The thing with Google the USA version has a lot more features than we get so it'll probly get better, can't even ask for an alarm with music or the radio to play.
 
TheOracle said:
Love mine, but you need to heavily invest on the rest of the house for it to make sense. Heating, cameras, lights, door lock, tvs, blinds and curtains. Just having the speaker would be ok but really comes into its own when paired with everything else.
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What device do you have to control the curtains?
 
I guess with Google music I just know it'll never find what specifics song I want when I request (although to be fair it does work sometimes). But the alarms etc as mentioned above reminded me that I do use it to set reminders which is great. "Hey Google remind me to do blah blah at 7pm tomorrow" works every time. Because ours is in the kitchen/lounge I'm looking forward to them reintegrating Keep Notes so that you can tell it to add stuff to your shopping list. I'd use that a lot for sure.

I guess it just depends how much patience you have. With any voice control stuff it never works 100,% but the more people use it the better it'll get :)
 
Voice control is fantastic. It works 100% for my 8 year old daughter who gets her words jumbled up. If it works for her (who last asked it to play chicken tikka by abba) it works for anyone.
 
we have an alexa in the kitchen, use it to listen to dave ramsey and george noory while im cooking, wife used it to show me how she can get Eastenders on the tv, but its not hooked up to anything. I keep asking alexa if she works for the CIA she said no, but i can tell she's lying to me.
 
tres said:
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So far:
Pros:
Better speaker in the mini vs gen 2 dot
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One thing probably worth mentioning here, is that the current Echo dot (Gen 3) is apparently much better sounding than the Gen 2, and also cheaper than the Google Home Mini so it would be good to compare those two rather than an old model Echo Dot.
 
I’ve got an echo dot in the living room. It’s hooked up to a stereo, though I switch between that and the tv (need to get an audio switch to save having to do it manually all the time).

I love Alexa. She’s brilliant. She’s got almost all the music I want to listen to, and if I shout loud enough she can hear me from almost any more of the house.

I’d love to get some smart lights to integrate with Alexa, but I’ve just struggled to justify the cost to myself.
 
Em3bbs said:
One thing probably worth mentioning here, is that the current Echo dot (Gen 3) is apparently much better sounding than the Gen 2, and also cheaper than the Google Home Mini so it would be good to compare those two rather than an old model Echo Dot.
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Yes good point. For music on whilst i do the housework, it does the job well. I'm not an audiophile by any means though
 
Amazon Echo Show, in the kitchen only. Love having the screen there for watching TV or the news when cooking, and the radio in the morning. Also handy to video call the folks, and a few other people I know who have them. Handy for recipes being in the kitchen and you can obviously touch it instead of having to shout at it if you wish to be more discrete, also can set timers (again useful when cooking) and have them show on the screen along with an audible alert. Speaker quality in it is great for the size, and easily rivals some of the other mid-range wireless speakers I have heard, although the mids can be somewhat stifled if the volume is up high. Paired with Amazon Prime it is great from streaming music and also when I need to order something or add something to my shopping list. It gets a great deal more use that other kitchen gadgets I have bought over the years. :)
 
Herojuana said:
The instruments of dystopia! Think i'll wait til they're free and mandatory before adopting :eek:
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You are 100% correct. Early adopters just don't realise what they're doing. They just buy without question. The establishment just wants humans to be 100 farmed complete slaves, this is why they have launched the recent propaganda campaign asking people to report their neighbours for doing housework like gardening and cleaning windows. In 5 years they will start asking people to start reporting people who switch off their own lights and draw their own curtains.

bowey said:
I just sold my Google home, apart from telling it to turn my lights on and set an alarm, which was just pure laziness from me I personally had no use for it.
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I commend you. I really do.
 
asim18 said:
You are 100% correct. Early adopters just don't realise what they're doing. They just buy without question. The establishment just wants humans to be 100 farmed complete slaves, this is why they have launched the recent propaganda campaign asking people to report their neighbours for doing housework like gardening and cleaning windows. In 5 years they will start asking people to start reporting people who switch off their own lights and draw their own curtains.
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1. Can you link me to the story about the housework stuff, was it about mobility benefit fraud claimants?
2. Are you really for real?
 
Once the EPSIS dataset has culmi

Efour said:
1. Can you link me to the story about the housework stuff, was it about mobility benefit fraud claimants?
2. Are you really for real?
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-window-say-clue-spotting-modern-slavery.html

Look at the comments too. Thankfully most people have realised how utterly daft this new propaganda campaign is and how it's just designed to divide neighbours to conquer them.

Same purpose as the propaganda campaign they released a month prior where they wanted people to start reporting their neighbours to the police for having nice cars or if their kids wear clean shoes to school.


Yes I'm for real. The culmination EPSIS data is utterly dangerous to humanity. Once it's complete enough, they will start implementing (either by force or under a guise) direct neural interfaces and that's when humanity will be farmed.
 
Efour said:
1. Can you link me to the story about the housework stuff, was it about mobility benefit fraud claimants?
2. Are you really for real?
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I tend to find replying to him just makes it worse. Better off ignored.


Oh and I don't have either. Don't see the point in them.
 
It so annoying when you have some this smart home stuff and when you buy someone new it does not support it :(


My new Sony AF9 OLED android TV which has google assistant built in does not support my 4 Arlo wireless camera's and my Philips hue lighting because there not google :mad:
 
Surprised Hue doesnt work with google. I thought it did.

I have a few Alexa things but i can't get my Nest cameras to connect to it (They show in the Alexa app but when i ask my Alexa devices to show me the cameras it fails). Thinking of moving to some google devices.
 
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