Google’s First Gemini Smart Home Speaker Detailed In Leak

Google’s enigma caller speaker appeared concisely successful its keynote alongside F1 driver Lando Norris.

Google announced plentifulness of caller hardware astatine this week’s Made by Google event, but halfway done we were distracted by nan little quality of what appeared to beryllium a new, antecedently chartless Gemini-powered smart speaker. Now Android Headlines claims that this speaker is real, and will motorboat pinch caller colors and nan expertise to brace pinch a Google TV Streamer.

Android Headlines reports that it’s seen further images of nan enigma speaker, which will apparently travel successful 4 colors: agleam red, ray green, black, and white. As seen concisely successful nan keynote video, it features a ray astir nan guidelines — alternatively than crossed nan top, arsenic connected erstwhile Google speakers — and a cloth finish.

As for features, nan large caller 1 is that nan speaker will apparently beryllium capable to brace pinch a Google TV Streamer to present spatial TV audio, a instrumentality borrowed from Apple’s HomePods, which tin link to Apple TV hardware. Hopefully it tin besides link to TVs that tally nan Google TV OS. It will apparently besides see caller earthy sound options, nan expertise to observe different sounds for illustration solid breaking aliases a fume alarm, and afloat support for Matter.

Gemini will present nan smarts, alternatively than Google Assistant, which is nary surprise. The institution announced Gemini for Home this week, which will get connected existing Nest smart speakers and displays from October this year. It will see a paid tier and support for Gemini Live, though it’s not clear which features will beryllium gated down nan premium subscription.

Android Headlines calls nan caller hardware nan “Home Speaker,” though it’s not clear if that’s its afloat aliases last name. We besides don’t cognize erstwhile it will beryllium released, though a motorboat alongside Gemini for Home successful nan autumn seems likely. We’d expect to spot an updated smart show earlier agelong too, since Google hasn’t updated its Nest Hub statement since 2021, and we’ve already recovered that Amazon’s caller Alexa Plus useful champion connected devices pinch screens.