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Paulw123
Paulw123
Virtuoso
May 19, 2016
Question

Google Home - a good thing?

  • May 19, 2016
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Video half way down
http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/18/11702284/google-home-io-2016-ai-voice-search-advertisement
Is it me, or is it the over the top American thing, but half way through I became annoyed. Perhaps because the family were talking to google more than each other!!!
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    Ciaci
    Lyricist II
    October 5, 2016
    Speaker streaming and control is a feature of Google Home:
    Stream audio to any Speaker that has Chromecast Audio plugged in or Chromecast built-in. Then play, pause, skip, or turn up the volume.

    Assuming that Sonos has "Chromecast built-in", we should be able to tell Google Home to play music on Sonos.

    It doesn't though does it? And it think people are after a bit more than just play, pause, skip and volume...

    This is what I'm wondering. I can cast directly to my Sonos speakers from Google Play. It seems logical that Google Home could do the same thing. e.g.: "OK Google... Play Foo Fighters Radio in the Living Room" should stream Foo Fighters Radio from my preferred service to my Living Room speaker(s) according to what I've read so far.
    Paulw123
    Paulw123Author
    Virtuoso
    October 5, 2016
    Only with android at the moment.
    You can't read any future integration into how it works today, but your right it might work ok, whatever sonos are not working on it.
    Ciaci
    Lyricist II
    October 5, 2016
    good point. wishful thinking. It would be sweet though.
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