You know you’ve got the best smart speaker when it’s incredibly responsive to your voice commands and provides great audio. But while having excellent audio quality is important — it’s a speaker, and you’ll likely use it to play music — a smart speaker’s most important function is allowing you to interface with a virtual assistant using your voice.
Whether you need to control your smart home devices, like your smart light bulbs and smart thermostat, look up answers to questions or connect with your friends and family hands-free, you need a smart speaker that easily hears and understands those commands. After all, the whole concept of a smart home is to make your life easier, so having the best smart speaker is key.
I tested the top smart speakers, using each one as my main speaker for at least a week to identify the best ones. In the end, two speakers beat all others in performance, audio quality and design.
Amazon Echo Dot Max Smart Speaker
Best smart speaker
