Google Launches Nest Audio Smart Speaker With Better Acoustics

Google on Tuesday introduced a brand new good speaker – the Nest Audio – along the Google Pixel 4a 5G, Pixel five, and Chromecast with Google TV merchandise. An replace to the unique Google House, the Nest Audio speaker comes with an inventory of acoustic upgrades for a greater track listening revel in, with the exception of a slimmer profile. It brings ahead probably the most Assistant options the Nest Mini presented final yr, and it has the similar sustainable material design the usage of 70 % recycled plastic.

Google Nest Audio value, availability

The Google Nest Audio has been priced at $99.99 (more or less Rs. 7,400). Sadly, India pricing has no longer been published, although the rustic is among the primary wave of release international locations. It’ll cross on sale in the United States, Canada, and India beginning October five, and 21 extra international locations from October 15. In India, it’ll be to be had by means of Flipkart and different stores, the corporate revealed on its India weblog publish.

The speaker has been introduced in Chalk, Charcoal, Sage, Sand, and Sky color variants. As we discussed, on the identical digital release tournament because the Nest Audio on Wednesday, Google launched the Pixel 4a 5G and Pixel 5 smartphones, apart from the brand new Chromecast with Google TV streaming dongle.

Google Nest Audio specs, options

The brand new Nest Audio speaker is alleged to be 75 % louder and bring 50 % more potent bass than the unique Google Home. The corporate says it spent over 500 hours of tuning to ship “complete, transparent, and herbal” sound at the speaker, or even optimised the grille, material, and fabrics for higher acoustics.

It sports activities a 75mm woofer, a 19mm tweeter, three far-field microphones, a 2-stage mic mute transfer, a quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 processor clocked at 1.8GHz, with the exception of Bluetooth v5.zero and dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11ac connectivity. That includes capacitive contact controls with 3 contact spaces, the Nest Audio has a Chromecast integrated for streaming.

Google Nest Audio includes a hardware mic mute transfer to allay privateness issues

As for Nest Audio options, Google is touting a Media EQ characteristic that mechanically adjusts the audio profile in keeping with the kind of content material being ate up, whilst Ambient IQ adjusts quantity in keeping with the noisiness of our surroundings. Different options come with move switch from one House or Nest speaker to any other, and multi-room keep watch over. The brand new, sooner Assistant reports on a devoted ML chip presented with the Nest Mini final yr additionally makes their option to the Nest Audio, with the similar chip onboard.