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Contributor I
November 29, 2017

Sonos One reading Kindle books

  • November 29, 2017
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I have recently purchased Sonos One with Alexa. However when I ask Alexa to read a kindle book she will give a summary of the book and then say sorry something has gone wrong.
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    Keith N
    Sonos Staff
    November 29, 2017
    Hello there, Joe8089. Thanks for reaching out and posting to the Community. Does the book you are trying to read from Kindle support text to speech?
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    Joe8089Author
    Contributor I
    November 29, 2017
    Hi Keith, yes I have checked all the books. Thank you for the reply
    Keith N
    Sonos Staff
    November 29, 2017
    Understood. Do other Alexa commands work on the Sonos One (such as playback control, volume control, etc.)? If you have an Amazon Dot available, does this work as expected with a Dot?
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    Joe8089Author
    Contributor I
    November 29, 2017
    I only have sonos and other Alexa commands works ie radio stations ,volume contro and weather
    Keith N
    Sonos Staff
    November 29, 2017
    Thanks for testing that out for me. I was able to talk to one our senior technicians about what you are experiencing and we were able to replicate the problem on our end. Although we do not have an estimated time when this feature could be released, I have forwarded this feature request along. Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause in the meantime.
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    Contributor I
    December 18, 2017
    @keith will this feature be supported in the future?
    Lyricist I
    December 26, 2017
    I've wasted half an hour trying to get Alexa to read a Kindle book on my Sonos One. When will this be sorted out as it's a feature that I'm very keen to use?
    Lyricist I
    January 2, 2018
    + 1 to this. Keen to use the feature.
    Lyricist I
    January 2, 2018
    Just received this as a gift and am experiencing the same problem, Alexa will repeat the name and author of the book and then say sorry something went wrong and shuts down, very frustrating !
    Lyricist II
    January 8, 2018
    I also have the same trouble with a Sonos one, and one of the only reasons for getting the "one" instead of another play 1 was so that I could incorporate the married couple of Alexa with the sound quality of Sonos. This is an important feature that would be a deal breaker if not remedied. The Sonos one has to be as good if not better than the $39 dot or $69 echo. Please work on this as many users of this new Sonos product thought that we would be getting a "full featured" product.