Tech News: The Google Nest Hub features a new multi-room audio feature to rival Sonos

The Google Nest Hub features a new multi-room audio feature to rival Sonos

Google Nest brings sound to each room in your home

Google smart displays, including the Google Nest Hub and Google Nest Hub Max, are now ready to control multi-room audio in real-time, because of a software update that ought to make it easier to fill your home with music.

While it had been already possible to manually group Nest speakers together to play equivalent music on different speakers simultaneously, Google says the new update allows you to add and take away speakers "dynamically" and alter the number of individual speakers, also because of the entire loudspeaker.

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In a blog post, Google Nest product manager Chris Chan says that the multi-room audio control interface is now available on the "Nest Hub, Nest Hub Max and other compatible Assistant-enabled Smart Displays", which "the same functionality are going to be coming to the Google Home app" within the next few months.

That means you ought to be ready to control your multi-room playback using your smartphone, very similar to a Sonos loudspeaker.

Sound in every room

Based on the photographs released by Google, the new multi-room interface looks pretty simple to use.

At the highest of your Google Assistant smart display, you will see a volume slider that controls every speaker within the group, with sliders for the individual speakers below.

Available devices are displayed at rock bottom of the screen, which you'll tap to feature into your multi-room system. within the top-right of the screen, you will be ready to see which track is playing; consistent with Google, the feature will work with most audio apps, "including YouTube Music, Spotify, Pandora and more".

As well as controlling the quantity and number of devices, the new interface allows you to move music from one room to a different – and you'll do that using your voice, the Google Home app, or the touchscreen on your smart display.



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