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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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    James L.
    James L.
    Retired Community Staff
    May 25, 2022

    To clear up any confusion - Sonos Voice Control is not available yet.

    It will launch on June 1st as originally stated in this thread 🙂

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      Jeffrey_35
      Jeffrey_35
      Headliner III
      May 25, 2022

      @James L. While I liked your answer, I do not like your answer. 😉

      “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
        melvimbe
        melvimbe
        May 25, 2022

        @James L. While I liked your answer, I do not like your answer. 😉

         

        eh.  Just one week to go.  I only wish it went live on a weekend so I could play with it immediately, rather then wait till I get home from work.

        edit: Of course, that would likely mean more Sonos staff would have to work the weekend for support reasons...which makes me a tiny, tiny, bit sad.  😀

        Danny
          Steerpike
          Trending Lyricist I
          May 30, 2022

          Hey Sonos!

          Add UK

          Add Spotify

           

            nik9669a
            Senior Virtuoso
            May 30, 2022

            Hey Sonos!

            Add UK

            Add Spotify

             

            Lots to read in this thread, but English will be one of the released language and UK will be getting it. 

              James L.
              James L.
              Retired Community Staff
              June 1, 2022

              Hey all,

               

              I’m really excited to announce that Sonos Voice Control is now available globally in US English!

               

              We’ve published an article detailing the full list of commands you can use with SVC:

               

              Please continue to leave us feedback on your SVC experiences 😊

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                Ken_Griffiths
                Ken_Griffiths
                June 1, 2022

                SVC is working okay for me here in the UK. I will just briefly mention that during ‘first-time’ setup (on a Sonos Roam) I didn’t initially notice an option to set a ‘default’ music service for the new voice assistant (unless I missed that?), but I did find that it was possible to set that quickly anyway by going to ‘Settings/Services & Voice/Voice/Sonos Voice Control’ in the App where I was able to easily set a default music service (Amazon Music in my own case).

                What has surprised me is just how quick the service responds to a request to play music - it started playing the requested audio much more quickly than the other voice services I use. I just need to go away and play some more with the commands available.
                 

                One further thing I did notice is my Roams ‘Now Playing’ screen showed an ‘UltraHD’ badge, so it looks like the voice-requested audio is in the available higher resolution formats, where such tracks are available from the music services and is supported of course by the chosen Sonos playback device. So that’s great to see too.👍

                  SarahN
                  SarahN
                  Local Superstar
                  June 1, 2022

                  @Ken_Griffiths - that’s all good to hear as I’m in the UK too. Currently in the office but will have a play around with it when I get home. I too have Amazon so will link that as my preferred service and I’m glad to hear it will play the HD and Ultra HD music.

                  Can you have too many Sonos speakers? 🤔 😆
                    nik9669a
                    Senior Virtuoso
                    June 1, 2022

                    Another UK user saying all’s good so far. My Playbase/Sub/One’s HT system responds well, and I can choose which of the One’s has voice recognition active. Control of different rooms also working great, as is selection of artists to play. Nice work, Sonos. And you’ll tell me the time and respond to a “thank you” 😜

                      Jeffrey_35
                      Jeffrey_35
                      Headliner III
                      June 1, 2022

                      US here. I was pleasantly surprised to wake up with SVC upon opening. No update needed!  Setup was easy, less than a minute for each of my devices. Did not see the default music choice in set up as well but knowing it was out there, it was easy to find and turn on-Apple Music for me. Still figuring out timing of asking and response as was stated; it seems quicker and don’t have to pause between statements. My wife and I use Sonos HD Radio mostly so this is a great help that it now supports voice commands for that. Well done Sonos, can’t wait to turn off Alexa. 

                      “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
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