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Of course, audio was a big thing this year, but that should be nothing new as companies use CES to unveil new headphones and other types of audio all the time. LG's new ThinQ AI TVs leverage Google Assistant. One quarter of smart speaker owners report having a Google Assistant product such as Google Home or Google Home Mini.
Google has been releasing a barrage of partner announcements for Google Assistant-powered smart speakers from well know audio companies including JBL, Altec Lansing, Bang & Olufsen and Klipsch.
Google has made great strides with Assistant, but the search giant still has plenty of work to do to catch up with Amazon's Alexa. We went hands-on with the new device at CES 2018, and here's what we thought. To that end, if Google Assistant is going to be pervasive, then it has to be in a lot of different devices - not just in terms of functionality, but also form. Lenovo's Smart Display, for instance - our Best IoT/Smart Home award victor this year - pairs the AI technology with two different sizes of touchscreen, aiming to conquer a place on the kitchen counter that until now might have been home to an Amazon Echo Show. Google recently overhauled the Google Home and Google Assistant apps, bringing these services to the forefront of the experience. Assistant for Android Auto will perform actions like controlling your smart home, play music from Spotify or Google Play Music, get directions from Google Maps or Waze and send and receive messages from services like WhatsApp, among other things.
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The Lenovo Smart Display will be available starting this summer, in two sizes.
Google Assistant can be used to control all sort sof smart home gadgets and appliances. Both look attractive enough, but since they're on the rear of the device it's easy to imagine that many users will never even see the colour of the rear - so we'd encourage picking your model based on the screen and price, not the finish.
If CES 2016 saw the first trickles of Alexa compatibility, and CES 2017 saw the dam break, this year's CES saw Amazon's voice agent flood the landscape of consumer devices, working its way into such water analogy-friendly devices as showers, washing machines and home leak detection devices. The potential for Amazon to dominate the next phase of computing is a serious threat to Google, a company built on revenue from online search and advertising.
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