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When does Sonos expect to have support for Google Assistant?

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Ryan SAnswer

Retired Sonos Staff

As of today, we've officially rolled out support for Google Assistant on Sonos players, and control of Sonos devices using Google Home devices. For more details, check out our announcement post here, and some of our getting started and tips and tricks posts.

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Chris

Lead Maestro

I would personally expect to see "Summer 2018"

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ibjon

Lyricist I

I would love to have Google Assistant available on my Sonos One.

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chad_

Lyricist I

I'm not yet a Sonos customer, but I will be when Google Assistant is available. ?

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Chris

Lead Maestro

We don’t know but expectation would be by this summer. I would expect personally may-June based on normal Sonos development cycles. This is guess as Sonos doesn’t give timeframes.

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Michael Sinclair

Lyricist I

Are you going to offer the Google Assistant integration on only the Sonos One product in 2018? I feel like I've been left in the dark ages with Sonos only supporting Alexa.

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GJVeld

Lyricist I

I am also looking forward to the Google assistant integration very much. Knowing it would come some day was the reason for me to buy the Sonos One
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chicks

Something big coming in April. Possibly Google Assistant, possibly AirPlay 2, possibly Audible support.

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darrenb5

Lyricist III

I have five Sonos units in my house. When will you have support for Google Home? I would like to stay with Sonos, but I really need a Google-compatable music solution ASAP. Google Home Max is starting to look a replacement. Can you please provide a date when you will release a solution?

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Paulw123

Virtuoso

Will it only work with the sonos one?
In which case, this will push sonos further out my house. It has already been relegated to the bedroom with a stereo pair of play1s, which sound fantastic.
Google home has replaced it in the kitchen and works great with GPM.
Samsung tablet works great with GPM and all other google dongles, used to cast to sonos as well, but now has been dropped by sonos.
Iam unlikely to buy a sonos one just to get voice in the bedroom.

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jgatie

There have been no indications that Google Assistant will only work with the Sonos One. That's zero, zip, nada. All indications are that it will operate exactly like the current Alexa voice assistant, and do so on all Sonos devices. Unlike Airplay 2, which requires an entirely new codec and encryption on the actual devices, Google Assistant, like Alexa, works in the cloud via communications between APIs. So there is absolutely no reason why GA and its cloud processing cannot be used with the same Sonos API as Alexa.

As to a date? Sonos has steadfastly said it will have Google Assistant working in 2018. That is all the specificity you are going to get, until they start rolling it out.

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