Google Home will now let you listen to music on your own Bluetooth speakers -- no Chromecast streamer required.

Starting Wednesday, you can pair your Google Home to a Bluetooth speaker of your choice using the Google Home app. Make that speaker your default for music playback, and the next time you ask your Google Home smart speaker to play a song, it'll play from that preferred speaker. You can even group that Bluetooth speaker with any others you have synced to Google Home for simultaneous playback.

Google announced the change via a blog post on Wednesday. You could previously control other speakers using Google Home. Google's voice controlled smart speaker also let you group other speakers, but you needed a separate Chromecast Audio streamer plugged into any speaker you wanted to control. Google's doing away with that barrier to entry, making it much easier to make Google Home the center of a whole home audio setup.