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Introducing Sonos Voice Control

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Hi Sonos Community members!

Today, we introduce the first voice experience created purely for listening on Sonos. Designed with privacy at its core, Sonos Voice Control is the simplest way to control your music, offering complete command of your Sonos system using only your voice.

Sonos Voice Control works on every voice-capable Sonos speaker, processing requests entirely on the device.

No audio or transcript is sent to the cloud, stored, listened to or read by anyone.

Available on new voice capable products and as a free update for existing customers, Sonos Voice Control is compatible with Sonos Radio, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Deezer, and Pandora at launch. More services and markets will follow.

Fast, accurate control of your music and your Sonos System

Sonos Voice Control finds the music you want to listen to, processing requests entirely on the device. Local processing delivers faster response times, and effortless follow-ups.

All you need is one “Hey Sonos” and you can follow up without the need for additional wake-words.

Just like the Sonos app, you can control music and speakers in any room, easily move music around the home, save and like your favorite songs to your personal music library and more.

Natural conversation with Giancarlo Esposito

Sonos Voice Control understands the nuance of human communication and will respond to natural commands like “turn it up!”. After a careful search, Sonos chose award-winning actor Giancarlo Esposito - best known for his roles in Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul and The Mandalorian - to deliver a familiar voice for US customers. With careful recording, advanced processing and mastering, the voice is natural, unobtrusive, yet confident and engaging.

Sonos’ first voice will be joined by others over time as Sonos continues to expand the experience to new people and places.

Sonos Voice Control is available in the US starting June 1 and in France later this year, with additional markets to follow.

Read the full press release on Sonos Voice Control here.

Sonos Voice Control

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GuitarSuperstar

Lead Maestro

“Hey Sonos, group the Living Room and Dining Room.”

Thank you, Sonos.

Here are other voice requests for Sonos Voice Control:
https://support.sonos.com/s/article/5108?language=en_US

"Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you." - Rashi

melvimbe

Danny

melvimbe

Great news @Caroline V. ! And thanks for the additional details @GuitarSuperstar

A few questions:

Can you set default music services? Per system or per room?
Can a room (or speaker) be set to act on a different room by default, similar to Alexa groups. For example, you have a Roam (Room 1) and an Amp (Room 2). Can you set it up so that a request to play music, change volume, etc be made to the Roam automatically go to Roam 2? “Hey Sonos turn up the volume “...and the volume on Room 2 goes up?
Will the product control commands work regardless of music service currently played? For example, if you’re streaming spotify, and request to fast forward, will it work?
Can you request to play music from an aux input?

Danny

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ghost

Avid Contributor I

@melvimbe

Yes, you can set a default service: https://support.sonos.com/s/article/5088?language=en_US

Bad news is that this is only good for existing SONOS speakers with voice control. Most of my setup are AMPs. I’m hoping SONOS will release separate hardware for just voice control like Echos.

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Nollind

Prominent Collaborator I

Will Sonos Voice Control play music in lossless (ie Apple Music)?

Haven’t seen any info about this. Be great if it could overcome this limitation of other voice assistants.

Mr. T

Hey Sonos!

melvimbe

@melvimbe

Yes, you can set a default service: https://support.sonos.com/s/article/5088?language=en_US

Bad news is that this is only good for existing SONOS speakers with voice control. Most of my setup are AMPs. I’m hoping SONOS will release separate hardware for just voice control like Echos.

Thanks for that. Your second point is why I asked my second question. I am wondering if the cheaper (relatively) Roam, or a used/refurbished Sonos One can be used as the mic for a Sonos room that doesn’t have mics, in a way. Pretty sure it can, if you include the room name with your command...but that’s not ideal, and will get old really fast. And yes, it’s hard to say the dot you got for $20 on black friday two years ago is going to be replaced by a $180 Roam. In my case though, my amp is serving outdoor speakers, so using a Roam for voice control might be the best option.

The Verge posted their article about the voice control release. Worth a look as it has a bit more information.

Yes, volume, stop, mute, fwd, rev, etc will work regardless of what streaming service is playing, same as it does for Alexa or GA.
You can have both Alexa and Sonos Voice Control (can we call it SVC?) operating on the same speaker. Google Assistant won’t allow that.

Danny

skullc

Prodigy III

I hardly use voice assistants anyway

2 commands I use good night turn downstairs lights and TV off and upstairs on, And all lights off found that works 99% of the time, rest of the time I have tried it it rarely works properly 😩

Prefer to use the app for music selection as it's the closest thing I have to flipping through my lp collection

But what do I know I am old...

Network= livewire cpe pro 3 +eero 6 pro wireless

arcadelt

Enthusiast I

Now the stupidity of not putting voice capabilities in the Five comes home to roost.

Airgetlam

Designed long before there was knowledge about how such a system would potentially work. Seems like blaming Sonos for not allowing the PLAYBAR to have AirPlay 2.

Bruce

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