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jakehallen3
jakehallen3
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February 3, 2017
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Alexa-Sonos

  • February 3, 2017
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When is The Think With alaxa and sonos comes out?
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      Best answer by Ryan S
      Glad you're excited for the update. Progress is going great but we're not ready to release a timeline to the world yet. It'll be out this year though. We'll make sure to let everyone know as soon as we can share more.

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      Jeff S
      Jeff S
      Retired Sonos Staff
      March 24, 2017
      Hi folks,

      We haven't made an update here in a while because we don't have an exact timeline we can share just yet. We're working to make voice control available on Sonos later this year. There should be a beta program before then, and we'll be sure to let you all know when we have a date for that, stay tuned.
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        quitclaim
        Trending Lyricist I
        April 3, 2017
        I'd like to believe the integration is coming soon, but I'm guessing it will be much later in the year if it happens this year at all. I don't understand the ins and outs of the technology, but I do know that in Aug 2015 Audible stopped working with Sonos and though Sonos said they were working on it, it still hasn't been fixed. They recently announced it should be back by summer - fingers crossed. But that it has taken almost 2 years to fix the issue and add Audible integration back in has led me to believe that (a) the tech is way more complicated than I realized and (b) updates and changes aren't likely to come quickly.

        I'm curious to see what the Alexa integration actually means. I can't tell if it's simply voice control (cool, but not a game changer) or if it will play Alexa through Sonos (which would then mean users could play *anything* on Sonos because they could connect their phones to Alexa via bluetooth and then play from through Sonos (phone -> Alexa -> Sonos). Right now I'm unbelievably frustrated by Sonos's limitations in that department.
        Paulw123
        Paulw123
        Virtuoso
        April 3, 2017
        Google Home launches April 6th in UK.
        This may have delayed things as ideally sonos needs to ensure it can work with both, and their development will be cheaper/cleaner if done together from the start.
        Maybe sonos will need to make a statement soon about working with google home.....the clock is ticking 😉
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