Google Home Vs Echo Dot. The Amazon Echo Dot brings all your smart home devices together with the power of the Amazon Alexa voice assistant. Amazon's Echo Dot has been around much longer than Google's Nest Mini, which has given Amazon time to build out a relatively strong ecosystem.
Smart speakers are all the rage these days. Amazon Echo: Which Smart Speaker Is Right for You? The Echo Dot is Amazon's smallest connected loudspeaker Once the Echo Dot is activated, you won't be able to control it via the app, but via your voice.
Both devices are capable of connecting to your existing sound system.
Both devices, perhaps quite disturbingly, are always listening due to their inbuilt microphones.
For instance, the baby Echo, Echo Dot, plugs straight into a speaker. While the Google Home Mini has outperformed the Echo Dot in the past, providing deeper, richer sound, this is no longer the case. The Echo Dot has seven microphones inside to make sure it can hear you in even noisy conditions, while the Mini makes do with two.