Google Home will take on Echo to be your at-home assistant

Like Amazon's Echo, Google Home is a speaker that can keep music and entertainment streaming directly from the cloud to insure top-notch quality. It also offers Cast support, so you can group it with your other speakers for multi-room audio or start playing videos on your television with Chromecast. And yes, both of those are voice-controlled tasks. You can even tell Home to play music on another piece of audio gear in another room rather than the whole group or Home itself. Google Home will also serve as your IoT hub, linking all of those connected household devices like lights, camera, thermostats, small appliances and more.