New trends are evolving day by day and this year its all about speakers and headsets. The smart speaker trend kicked a few years ago, but Amazon’s Alexa speaker is no longer alone. There are dozens of smart speakers on the market, and picking out the best one keeps getting tougher. Its all about your choice, whose voice do you prefer to listen.
But for that you need to have perfect quality speaker and features that are most important to you. So what do you look for in a speaker ? touch screen? need to connect with smart gadgets ? Battery life ?
Well we have got answers for all your questions and here are some of the top smart speakers in the market:
1: Riva concert smart speakers:
The Concert is clear and a little better at filling wider spaces with sound thanks to its two extra drivers and passive radiators that aim out each side. You can pair up multiple Riva speakers and tinker with the bass or treble.
It works with Airplay, Spotify Connect, and is a hands-free Alexa speaker to boot. Ask it the weather or command it to turn on your lights. It can do most everything an Echo speaker can. It also has Bluetooth connectivity, a 3.5 mm auxiliary port so you can hook it to the headphone jack of your phone, and a full-size USB port so you can play media from your phone that way. And it can connect to a home media server. And it’s mountable. And it’s splash resistant. And you can buy a battery pack that turns it into a portable speaker with 15 hours of juice. And it has a three-year warranty.
2: JBL link 20:
The Link 20 is waterproof and floats. It also has helpful indicator lights showing you how much battery is left and how strong your Wi-Fi signal is both important when you’re moving a speaker around the house or in the backyard. Blue-tooth pairing is also easy, and I like that you can charge the speaker while it stands upright, something that requires an adapter on the rival UE blast and mega blast speakers.
The Link 20 relies on Google Assistant, which works better than Alexa in many ways. Setup is easier, and the weird syncing issues common with third-party Alexa devices are absent here. It answers questions more reliably, and is compatible with Google apps and Spotify, Pandora, and YouTube Music for streaming. Google Assistant can now play Netflix on your Chrome-cast devices too simply through voice command.
3: JBL link view:
It has a perfectly sized 8-inch screen and a pair of two-inch full-range drivers that put it in a class of its own for music. Its on-board Google Assistant will answer questions, give you visual weather updates, and has some new features like a video CNN news briefing and step-by-step audio and visual directions for recipes.
The ability to toss videos to its screen using Chromecast, pull up YouTube videos with voice, and make video calls over Google Duo. The built-in camera lens cover also adds a layer of privacy.
4: Amazon Echo Show 2nd gen:
A great Alexa-powered alternative. It’s more usable than third-party Alexa speakers because it can call and network with Amazon’s other Echo speakers. The new version looks much nicer than the first Echo Show too, with a 10-inch full-size screen.
You still have to talk to Alexa to do almost anything, but the screen lets you see what music you’re playing, pause the audio, skip to the next song, and even view lyrics on some Amazon Music tracks. It can also play Amazon Prime videos and has a video version of Alexa’s daily flash news briefing. Voice and video calls are supported, though to do video, you’ll need to call another Echo device with a screen.
5: Google Home Mini:
The Home Mini can tell you the weather, answer your random questions, and play white noise at bedtime to help you sleep. It also has more contextual awareness than Alexa. It presents an easy way to get Google Assistant into the places in your home where you don’t normally listen to music; you can just use it to ask questions and control your smart-home devices.
