During its presentation yesterday, when it announced the Pixel 10 family along with the Pixel Watch 4 and Pixel Buds 2a, Google slipped in an image of an unreleased smart home speaker. Today a new leak gives us some details about it.
First off, it’s real, it’s in development, and it will be launching at some point in the future. It will unsurprisingly be powered by Gemini. It will be offered in bright red, light green, black, and white (or Porcelain in Google parlance – the light green could be branded Jade and the black would be Obsidian if Google sticks with the names it’s been using for the past few years).
The speaker will light up at the bottom, and this will come on when you’re talking to Gemini. You’ll be getting the Gemini Live experience, but of course it will be limited to speech only – on your phone you can also use the camera to show it things.
The speaker will apparently launch with some new natural-sounding voices for the AI assistant, and you’ll be able to search for media and music and have it play it. You can also set up automations through the speaker, and it will be able to detect unusual sounds like glass breaking or a smoke alarm going off and send you alerts on your phone when it does.
Google will even let you pair the speaker (or, presumably, multiple units) to a Google TV Streamer in order to spread the TV sound throughout the house. Finally, it will also support Matter, the IoT protocol. It’s unfortunately unclear when the speaker will be launched, but we’ll let you know when we find out more about it.