Google Assistant has earned a Mashable Readers' Choice Award

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As smart home products become more integrated into U.S. homes, they need the best smart home hub to operate successfully. Smart assistants act as the centralized brain for a smart home, connecting to various devices so you can set routines, use voice commands, and more to seamlessly operate your gadgets.

We polled our readers to learn about the smart home products they use in our Readers’ Choice Smartest Home survey. When it comes to smart assistants, Google was the clear winner.

We asked readers to score their Google Assistant devices on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being the best) on multiple factors, including voice recognition, smart home controls, and programmable actions. Here’s how Google fared compared to the competition. (Interact with the chart below by clicking the arrow buttons or using the dropdown menu.)

Testimony from Google Assistant users

Our readers who use Google Assistant in their homes lauded it for being reliable, saying they use Google for cooking, asking questions, and smart home controls like turning on the lights.

One respondent said, “Our whole house has Google displays, speakers, TVs integrated with Google TV, and third-party plugs, bulbs, and the like. Just recently, I upgraded to a Google mesh router. The third-party devices can occasionally be a bit tricky to set up, but once everything is working, it's nice to be able to control everything right in the Google Home app.”

Others called Google Assistant “awesome” and said that they are “overall very satisfied.” On the likelihood to recommend, Google Assistant scored 8.2 out of 10.