How is the sound quality streamed from the Google Home? Steaming Spotify via Amazon Echo to a B&O speaker is just horrible.

Hi Lyle - great....

Any idea if the same ‘trick’ could be used with the Essence MK2/Core?

If it works, it will be fun to see, if the app reacts just like the Moment ;-)

MM

Great! thanks for sharing the video. Seems to work quite well. 

I understand Deezer support for Google Home is available only in France and the UK at the moment. 

Once it supports Deezer  for the Netherlands I will certainly hook one up myself. 

Best, 

Peter

It's great to see the potential of what can be achieved with voice control. I wonder how far off (and how feasible it is) when we'll see tighter integration with Alexa and Google Home so that we don't have to relay on poor audio quality streaming or IFTTT using a BLGW. After all, B&O is all about sound quality and we can't compromise that.

beojeff wrote:

It's great to see the potential of what can be achieved with voice control. I wonder how far off (and how feasible it is) when we'll see tighter integration with Alexa and Google Home so that we don't have to relay on poor audio quality streaming or IFTTT using a BLGW. After all, B&O is all about sound quality and we can't compromise that.

Agreed.  Although playing a Google Home to a speaker over Bluetooth is a nifty trick, the same could be done by hooking a Chomecast dongle into the Line-In of a Moment.  Or by hooking an inexpensive Bluetooth receiver into an amplifier to drive the speakers without the Moment.

Ideally, I should be able to stand in the living room and say "Hey Google, play BBC Radio 1" and it will automatically start TuneIn radio on the Moment (or Core, or Essence) in the living room.  Meaning it initiates the stream on the device itself, not playing it over Bluetooth.  Then I could wander into the kitchen and say "Hey Google, join the living room stream" and the Essence (or Core) in the kitchen would join the active stream from the living room.

I know that the Google Actions is a relatively new system, and companies much larger than B&O are working hard to integrate into this new ecosystem.  I can only hope that Bang and Olufsen recognizes the importance of full native integration (rather than the simple Bluetooth connection now offered) and has a development team working on this.

This is really well said laseralex. I find the Homepod attractive exactly for this reason, being able to just say for example “play some uplifting music” and voila! But I sense B&O has to be working on such native voice control support so I’ll rather wait and see (would prefer to have B&O audio at home). This “imperfect” bluetooth setup looks more like a proof of concept for the B&O team, but it does imply to me at least that something more substantial has to be in development - maybe a new voice controlled audio system... 

Well, there we go! ;) And as Google Actions become more comprehensively available for/with Deezer, I believe we will see more of Deezer integration on top of this Spotify example. This is cool, thanks for sharing.