Matter smart home. With privacy being such a key part of Matter, it feels odd to be reliant on a cloud-based voice assistant.

Home Assistant announced today the availability of the Voice Preview Edition, its own design of a living-room-friendly box to offer voice assistance with home automation. Having used it for a few ...

The Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition represents a significant step forward in smart home automation, focusing on local voice control as an alternative to cloud-based systems. This open source ...

Google's latest AI Gemini, a master of conversation and identification, has been around for many months now, so I've been expecting this move for a while, but now it's official: The humble Google ...

After months of teasers and brief betas, Google has made it official: Gemini AI is replacing Google Assistant on all Nest and Google Home-related devices this year, officially called Gemini for Home.

OEMs can now highlight specific digital assistants as “optimized” for their Android devices in the default app settings. Google says it created the feature at an OEM’s request so OEMs can recommend ...

The smart home is here to stay, and the convenience of operating from integrated phone apps can save money or time and make ...

It's been a slow erosion, but recent cracks in Google's smart home foundation paint a very grim picture of the future. reading time 3 minutes When I started using a Google smart speaker six years ago, ...

As voice search rapidly transforms the digital landscape, Local Marketing Plus SEO, a digital marketing consultancy ...