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Yesterdays (March 11th, 2016) Sonos Anouncment

  • March 12, 2016
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Not as much talk about yesterdays sonos anouncment as I would have expected from such a passionate community. So what are people thinking?

Obviously Amazon Echo has impacted SONOS but how do you go from hiring new people and planning a retail store to cutting staff?

What's next ? Should we be concered about making more current investments in sonos hardware (I really want to buy a sub)?

People have been posting for months about voice support and for years about DTS.

The standard response is sonos doesn't comment on future enhancements or new products.

We know what we have today and there pretty darn good products but we all want to be excited and look forward to what's coming next.
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      chicks
      chicks
      March 13, 2016
      Sonos also needs to somehow counter those brilliant Alec Baldwin commercials for Echo. 😉
      jgatie
      jgatie
      March 13, 2016
      Sonos also needs to somehow counter those brilliant Alec Baldwin commercials for Echo. ;)

      They are good. Perfect choice, his hosting at SNL proves hes a guy who's not afraid of laughing at himself.
      chicks
      chicks
      March 13, 2016
      Searched the Sonos job postings just now for any sort of clue, nothing found. One principal design engineer lists microphone array experience, but searching for "voice" or similar apt terms gets no applicable hits.
      jgatie
      jgatie
      March 13, 2016
      Interesting. So hardware is looking for microphone array, but software has nothing for voice recognition. Still only points to acquiring existing, or using existing. I've glanced at Alexa Skills. Not really a requirement on a resume, because any code geek can handle it. But it would be a preferred. Someone here posted that they hired the guy who blogged about Alexa Skills for Sonos.
      Elkiehound
      Avid Contributor I
      March 13, 2016
      Is there any reason to think that a new speaker / playbar is soon and if people should wait on a big purchase?
      The LHC
      March 13, 2016
      Is there any reason to think that a new speaker / playbar is soon and if people should wait on a big purchase?

      No, there's no reason to think that. However there's also no reason not to think that.
      chicks
      chicks
      March 14, 2016
      Well, after a bit more reading, I think Sonos may be hooking up with Alexa after all. She's free and easy, apparently, for all takers. Would save a huge development effort; Sonos just needs to add skills to control their own system. I'll wait for the Beta before ordering a Dot, though...

      Not sure where that leaves the Play:1, but I'm sure Sonos has a (revised) strategy.
      The LHC
      March 14, 2016
      Well, after a bit more reading, I think Sonos may be hooking up with Alexa after all. She's free and easy, apparently, for all takers. Would save a huge development effort; Sonos just needs to add skills to control their own system. I'll wait for the Beta before ordering a Dot, though...

      Not sure where that leaves the Play:1, but I'm sure Sonos has a (revised) strategy.

      What difference would it make to the play:1? If they can integrate Amazon's voice control then what's the problem?
      chicks
      chicks
      March 14, 2016
      Well, after a bit more reading, I think Sonos may be hooking up with Alexa after all. She's free and easy, apparently, for all takers. Would save a huge development effort; Sonos just needs to add skills to control their own system. I'll wait for the Beta before ordering a Dot, though...

      Not sure where that leaves the Play:1, but I'm sure Sonos has a (revised) strategy.

      What difference would it make to the play:1? If they can integrate Amazon's voice control then what's the problem?

      Echo sales are apparently denting Play:1 sales pretty badly, at least that's my thought as to why Sonos is suddenly having to change their strategy.
      The LHC
      March 14, 2016
      Well, after a bit more reading, I think Sonos may be hooking up with Alexa after all. She's free and easy, apparently, for all takers. Would save a huge development effort; Sonos just needs to add skills to control their own system. I'll wait for the Beta before ordering a Dot, though...

      Not sure where that leaves the Play:1, but I'm sure Sonos has a (revised) strategy.

      What difference would it make to the play:1? If they can integrate Amazon's voice control then what's the problem?

      Echo sales are apparently denting Play:1 sales pretty badly, at least that's my thought as to why Sonos is suddenly having to change their strategy.

      Yeah, so presumably integrating echo into Sonos would be a good thing for the play:1, usually the phrase "not sure where that leaves xy" indicates a negative impact.
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