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"Google Home Has Now Been Launched In India"
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Tech's Giant Google announced the launch of Google Home and Home Mini Voice-enabled speakers for India.
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Talking more about these two new products design language, Google Home will be available to Indian customers in White body colour with customizable base. Speaking about the LED effects, it will provide visual feedback when the Home recognises ”Hey Google”. Among some other features and ways to control the gadget, the Google Home will be having touch panel which could be used to control the system. Speaking of Google Home Mini, the product will offer 360 -degree audio with a 40mm driver. The new device will be having 4 LED indicators on the top. Google Home Mini is the compact version of Google Home and will be requiring Android 4.4 KitKat and iOS 9.1 in a smartphone to make it compatible. Google Home Mini will be available in three colours which will be Chalk, Charcoal and Coral. The new device will also allow users to swap the soft fabric cover.
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The devices also come with a voice match feature that distinguishes between different users to provide a personalised experience to different individuals. It has been designed with two microphones that utilise a technique called ‘neural beam forming’ to enable accurate far-field voice recognition.
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About the compatibility, both the new Google products will be responding to voice commands which will be powered by Google Assistant. Apart from all these features, Google has also brought another feature called ‘Voice Match’ to identify different voices and respond to the users query. The new devices are exclusively available on Flipkart. People can also locate these products in offline stores too.
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The future of consumer technology is in voice. That's easier to do overseas, where English prevails as the universal language. In India, you not only have different languages, you also need to deal with different dialects and accents. Google has made some progress in adding languages to the Assistant. In fact, Hindi voice support was announced for the Assistant recently and Google plans to add it to the Home by the end of the year.
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Yet, it's hard to deny the fact that the Assistant is not quite understanding India and Indians. It misunderstands commands often, and though many use it on their phones, it's often not through voice feedback. The Home could effectively solve that. By its very nature, the Google Home allows more voice engagement. That, in turn, compliments all the data Google can get from India and how it speaks, improving its own service in the long run.
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According to Chandra, Google Home is more than just a product for smart homes. “India has been a fantastic market for us. Android has been very well received. The way we are looking at this is that we are bringing everything about what’s great with Google in a voice-activated way,” he explains. Google’s VP of Product Management says India has seen tremendous growth in terms of voice interaction and Google Home is a natural extension of the same.
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Silicon Valley has long wanted to move towards ambient computing, where devices just exist around you with keyboards and mouse out of the way. It's Iron Man's Jarvis in real life, but that can't happen unless the second biggest market in the world, India, is ready for it.
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Google is already in our pockets, on every smartphone, but ambient computing looks to eliminate even the phone. How do you do that? You kickstart the smart home market in the country. Chandra said that the Amazon Echo devices and Google Homes of the world did that for the US market and he expects the same to happen in India now.
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"The Assistant is on tens and millions of phones in India. It's a good opportunity for consumers to understand what the Assistant can do. Which is the best training, right? The Assistant is a new interface to Google and you can understand what it can do."
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Phones were the first step,Chandra hopes that once people understand and use the Assistant, they will want it in their home. "That makes it accessible to everyone in home, like parents, kids and spouse."
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In the coming days, Google said that Assistant on Google Home will continue to perform better over time because Hindi language support is also included. The company has also said that Google Home for Assistant is open to third-party apps (ANI).
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