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 ...

Perplexity's Android voice assistant is live with the app's 2. ... to access the new AI assistant using gestures (power button, home button, swiping from the bottom left to center).

Imagine walking into a smart home where everything runs with a push of a button — or even better, a command of your voice.

This week, Google announced it has added full local control of Matter devices to its Google Home hubs by integrating Home Runtime. Now, Google Nest hubs and speakers, Chromecasts, Google TV devices on ...

Another area where Google reigns is in multiple voice commands ... can now control many TVs and media streamers, Assistant and Google Home are generally superior when they’re available.

You will finally be able to speak to your Google TV like you would speak to a person. And future models will support ambient ...

Samsung is finally letting users choose the default voice assistant on the Galaxy S25 series, and Gemini is selected out of ...