The Google Home Speaker sounds good and looks great — but it’s finicky
THE SO WHAT
A smart speaker that hears “Hey Google” flawlessly but behaves finickily underscores the new bar—voice recognition is solved enough, orchestration and reliability are the constraint. If you’re integrating assistants into home or office workflows, budget more time for behavior tuning than for wake-word performance.
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