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jdrednation
Avid Contributor III
December 27, 2024
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Can Sonos Voice Assistant recognize Group names?

  • December 27, 2024
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I just started using Sonos Voice Assistant and I’m loving the ability to group rooms by voice. I have Groups set up like ‘Upstairs’ and ‘Downstairs’ which include multiple rooms.

Can Sonos Voice Assistant recognize Group names? It doesn’t appear so, but I’m hoping others might confirm.

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Best answer by UKMedia

The user guide references grouping/ungrouping rooms, as well as adding a room to currently playing group. But what I don’t see is that we’re able to activate a group itself via voice. Where one command for a Group activates multiple rooms.

For example, when I say “add in DOWNSTAIRS” (which is a Group of rooms that I’ve created) I want it to activate the living room, kitchen, and sitting rooms all at once. 

 

Please follow the link in my post and in the last row of the Playing Music table:

Play in another room or on a saved group

"Play some jazz in the kitchen"
"Play Tame Impala downstairs"

In your example asking “Play Jazz in downstairs” will play in all rooms added to that Group

Please also see:

Grouping, ungrouping, and moving music

Group products and Rooms together or move music from one place to another.

 

Action

Example requests with "Hey Sonos"

Group and ungroup products or Rooms

"Group the kitchen and living room"
“Group all of my downstairs speakers”
“Group everywhere”
“Ungroup all of my rooms”

Add or remove products or Rooms from a group

“Add this room to the group”
“Add the kitchen and the dining room to the living room group”
“Remove the office from the group”
“Play here too”

Move the music from one place to another

“Move the music from the living room to the kitchen”
“Move the music upstairs”
“Stop the music in the office and play it in the backyard”

 

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jdrednation
Avid Contributor III
December 28, 2024

Can you confirm what voice command you are using?  I have a group called ‘Living Area’ and I’ve just tested the command ‘Hey Sonos, play Adele in Living Area’ and it works straight away.

Seems to be working like a champ after a night of sleep. I’m having no issues starting or moving music to my Group names now. Since SVC is local to my devices, I can’t blame it on the cloud (unless it’s only speech itself that is local to the devices)…but I’m unsure why it took 12+ hours for SVC to recognize the Group names.

Appreciate the help y’all! I’ll revert if I get any more hiccups. 

Corry P
Sonos Staff
December 30, 2024

Hi ​@jdrednation 

It can take Sonos Voice Control up to 24 hours to recognise the name of a new favourite, new playlist, or a new group - as speech recognition is done locally - and with limited resources as compared to a huge data centre - new words or phrases must be downloaded before they can be recognised. You can hurry the process by removing and adding SVC manually.

I hope this helps.

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