5 Best Google Assistant Speakers (2025): Speakers, Displays, Soundbars

The Nest Audio is awesome for its value (8/10, WIRED Recommends). This midsize speaker was released successful 2020 and replaced nan Google Home from 2016 (if you retrieve nan aerial freshener-looking smart speaker, that's nan one) and it improves connected it pinch louder sound and deeper bass. It still won't return up excessively overmuch room, since it has a bully slim footprint but is still ample capable to battalion awesome sound. The discreet creation allows it to blend into your home, and nan agelong powerfulness cablegram makes it easy to spot it anyplace successful your home. There's a beingness move to move disconnected nan mic, which is simply a bully information feature.

If you've sewage nan budget, splurge connected 2 of these. WIRED reviewer Parker Hall, who specializes successful audio gear, says pairing nan 2 of these speakers together gives you immoderate of nan champion stereo sound for nan money. These speakers travel successful a group if you cognize you want two.

Assistant-powered speakers are constricted to sound, which is why smart displays person an advantage. You get akin audio value positive a surface to spot things for illustration nan upwind forecast, alternatively than conscionable perceive it. Google's 10-inch Nest Hub Max (8/10, WIRED Recommends) is large capable to usage arsenic a surface to watch shows aliases YouTube videos while washing nan dishes (though Amazon Prime Video isn't available). When not successful use, nan surface doubles arsenic a integer photograph frame, cycling images from Google Photos.

The Nest Hub Max doesn't look excessively techie, has bully audio quality, and comes pinch a camera, truthful you tin make group video calls pinch Google's video-chatting service, Meet. The camera tin place group successful nan household, truthful erstwhile you measurement successful beforehand of it, you'll spot a personalized calendar. It tin besides admit your palm, truthful conscionable raise it to region euphony aliases videos without having to opportunity anything. Best of all, there's a beingness move connected nan backmost that turns disconnected nan mic and camera. If nan 10-inch size is excessively big, nan 7-inch Nest Hub (2nd Gen) (7/10, WIRED Recommends) is simply a bully option. It's a small excessively mini for our tastes, but nan deficiency of a camera intends it's a much privacy-friendly instrumentality for nan much backstage areas of your home. It besides has sleep-tracking functions if you usage it connected a bedside table.