LG beats rival Samsung to announce its first smart home speaker, which will launch at CES.
Amazon Echo and Google Home may have the lead in smart home speakers, but that isn’t stopping LG from beating Samsung to the punch over announcing a smart speaker of its own.
LG’s first smart home speaker will run on Google Assistant.
On Thursday, LG said it will launch a smart home speaker powered by Google Assistant — called the LG ThinQ Speaker — at the annual CES show for all things tech in Las Vegas in January.
The rollout stalled in the US, leaving many buyers skeptical about Samsung’s ability to create compelling software to rival Amazon’s Alexa sidekick, Apple’s Siri, Microsoft’s Cortana and Google Assistant.
Samsung didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
The voice-assisted ThinQ Speaker will presumably be able to access all of Google Assistant’s abilities and database, and recognize different users’ voices. In addition, you’ll be able to control LG smart home appliances through your voice. «OK Google, talk to LG, turn on the air purifier,» was an example LG used in its press announcement .
LG goes on to emphasize high-resolution audio, promising that the speaker will support lossless files.
CES runs from Jan. 8-12.
