


No matter how you plan on pairing your Google Home device with a Bluetooth speaker, the setup process is basically the same. In both instances, you still need to talk to your Google Home speaker. You can either have your Bluetooth speaker take over audio duties from the Google Home speaker, or you can connect the Bluetooth speaker to an existing multiroom system with other Google Home speakers. This new Google Home and Bluetooth speaker partnership can be used in two ways. However, it opens up a lot of possibilities for those who want to listen to better audio and don’t want to populate their homes with numerous smart speakers. This ability to stream music from a smart speaker to another Bluetooth speaker isn’t groundbreaking - Amazon’s Echo devices have been able to do it for a while. However, if you have a Google Home Mini ($49), you can now use voice commands to play music on your significantly better-sounding Bluetooth speaker, like a Bose SoundTouch 30 ($499) or Fender Monterey ($350). It’s a skill you probably won’t need if you have a Google Home Max ($399), as it’s Google’s biggest speaker that already sounds pretty great. Google recently rolled out an update that allows anybody to control a Bluetooth speaker with their Google Home Mini, Google Home or Google Home Max.
