Bass still falls short, especially at higher volumes No provision for wall/stand mounting Have to be okay with Google's microphones in your house For a while it seemed like smart displays would be the ...

Google has been working for the past year on revamping how Google Assistant delivers audio news clips. Now, everyone gets the same audio clips when they ask for the news on a particular topic, but it ...

Google is tightening its privacy controls over its Google Assistant voice assistant after a report earlier this year found that it was eavesdropping on user conversations. Google is unveiling new ...

The Google Home has long been one of the best smart speakers around, not necessarily because of its high-end audio, but because of how intelligent Google Assistant is. But, despite its smarts, the ...

People who have previously opted-in will be asked to review their confirmation, and until they do so Google will not share any of their voice recordings with human reviewers. Earlier this year ...

Siri, Alexa and other virtual assistants are turning from clunky robots into smart agents, while $500 bln OpenAI may be ...

In the land of new media, audio might not be king yet, but it’s certainly a rising challenger to the throne. Americans listen to nearly four hours of audio a day on average, and as I reported ...

Google has halted the transcribing of recordings from its voice assistant in the EU. The company faced backlash last month after 1,000 private conversations recorded on its Google Assistant product ...

Google announced audio news for the Google Assistant. This is not speakable markup. or YouTube videos playing on the Google Home Hub, this is real audio news, like broadcaster, podcaster, etc that ...

Google is making some changes to its audio data retention policies in the coming months. Most importantly for those concerned about humans reviewers listening to you, it plans on asking every user to ...

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