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Caroline V.
Caroline V.
Retired Community Manager
May 11, 2022

Introducing Sonos Voice Control

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Introducing Sonos Voice Control

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.

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    Kumar
    June 4, 2022

    @TuxUser : See the response above. Something strange at your end including the stated Sonos response. Lets see if @James L. of Sonos can help sort out this.

    Ken_Griffiths
    Ken_Griffiths
    June 4, 2022

    I’m not using a US Sonos account FWIW, my online account is setup the same as @SarahN’s and  showing a country setting of UK - Might it perhaps be a DNS issue, or users running some type of security software that’s blocking the service, perhaps🤔?

      skullc
      skullc
      Prodigy III
      June 4, 2022

      Also a UK account and no problem setting svc on all my hardware 👍

      Network= livewire cpe pro 3 +eero 6 pro wireless
        ssbmx90
        Lyricist I
        June 4, 2022

        I’m assuming you can’t since I tried, but how do you turn surrounds on/off without having to toggle every single time, gets old without a widget or voice control…

        skullc
        skullc
        Prodigy III
        June 5, 2022

        I had the opportunity to try svc outside yesterday as the sun was out 😀

        Was excellent only issue was with the volume at over 60% it had trouble hearing me no big deal 

        First time I have found a voice assistant useful 👍

        Network= livewire cpe pro 3 +eero 6 pro wireless
          Jeffrey_35
          Jeffrey_35
          Headliner III
          June 6, 2022

          Perhaps a better place to troubleshoot would be the discussion area, and not the announcements thread?

           

          https://en.community.sonos.com/sonos-voice-control-229127

          @Airgetlam Wouldn’t that go for virtually ANY of the topics being discussed here. Just curious why MY topic needs to go but nobody else’s does.

          “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
            todayswertresresult
            Lyricist I
            June 7, 2022

            Now that the Five lack the ability to speak, the stupidity of not including them is exposed.😍

            kuwarrulz_11
            Enthusiast II
            June 7, 2022

            Please fix audio dropouts in 14.6 update. 100s of users are having sub and surrounds dropping. This isn’t expected from Sonos.

            melvimbe
            melvimbe
            June 7, 2022

            Now that the Five lack the ability to speak, the stupidity of not including them is exposed.😍

             

            Seems that way when you don’t know all the details around the decision.  I found the decision puzzling when the Five was first released, but Sonos supported Alexa and GA then, and had purchased Snips, the predecessor to SVC.  Seems like a better assumption that there are things around costs, maybe performance and marketing data, that we don’t know, rather just simple stupidity.

            Danny
              SarahN
              SarahN
              Local Superstar
              June 7, 2022

              I use the mic on my Beam to speak with my stereo Fives in my lounge 😀 - of course this works as they are in the same room!

              Can you have too many Sonos speakers? 🤔 😆
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