Google announced Google Home a voice controlled wifi speaker with Google Assistant. With new Google Home Wi-Fi speakers, you can access and control your music library over voice. The new device also has Google Cast support, so you can tell it to play a track in a specific room using your Chromecast Audio devices. You need Chromecast Audio devices in every room to function this feature.
Google Posted on Twitter:
Google Home is a voice-activated product that brings the Google assistant to any room in your house. #IO16 pic.twitter.com/XltNrp093b
— Google (@google) May 18, 2016
The new voice controlled device can also control your TV over Chromecast. You can command to play a movie on your living room TV without having to pick up a phone to manually cast a film from Play Movies. You can also manage day-to-day task over it like manage calendars, schedules, music and more.
Google also announced Allo and Duo messaging and one on one video calling app at Google I/O 2016. New Google Home will be available later this year. Pricing and dates have not been announced yet.