Joining the Sonos Echo/Alexa beta

There isn't a Public Beta to join.

When there is there will be an announcement. In the meantime you can join Public Beta in your account and follow the links to Beta

OK thanks. Do we know that once the integration is in place between Sonos & Echo and if like me you have Sonos speakers in nearly every room, do we only require an Echo Dot as all audio response, including the voice of Alex would come though the Sonos speakers?

No we don't

From the original video and the way I have ever seen Alexa work I would assume no alex voice would come through Sonos speakers. Alexa would send a push command to send music selection to specific speaker. Music only to Sonos. I don't see how it would be any other way.

I'll agree with Chris here. Alexa's voice will likely come through whatever Echo device receives the command, not the Sonos device that will be playing the music.

Thanks. Makes sense.

My daughter in Nevada was selected to be part of the Public Beta, she told me she was contacted by Sonos but was not told how she was selected. She said the integration works very well and is super cool.

An interesting thing to test will be the difference in user experience between a Dot connected to a decent pair of powered speakers vs. a Dot controlling a pair of Play1s. We know the Dot controlling the Play1 will likely keep the voice responses on the Dot and not be able to mute music when Alexa is talking and will also be able to control additional Sonos speakers in other rooms from where the Dot and Play1s are located. The powered speaker configuration on the other hand will manage music muting so Alexa can speak since voice and music both will come from the speakers but I wonder if Amazon will add the ability to have one Dot control music on a different Dot in another room? Lots of unkowns on both sides.

Why would the echo be unable to pause the Sonos speakers. Once the Sonos speakers start playing music the echo would go back to listening for next command.

Why would the echo be unable to pause the Sonos speakers. Once the Sonos speakers start playing music the echo would go back to listening for next command.

I meant Alexa can't automatically pause the music playing on the Sonos speaker while speaking the way it does whan playing natively through an Echo device. I'm sure you will be able to tell Alexa to pause or mute the Sonos when you need to hear a voice response or intercom call but it won't do it on its own. Not saying that is good or bad, just noting one way things will be different for people who are used to listening to music via an Echo and decide to move up to a Sonos speaker (as distinct from existing Sonos users who get a Dot to control the Sonos system they already own).