

It’s worth noting, too, that while Sonos One offers a large degree of Alexa functionality, it doesn’t currently support the entire feature set. That means instead of saying, “Alexa” you could control your speaker with “OK, Google.”
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Next year, a free software update for Sonos One will give users the ability to connect to Google Assistant. One big benefit to the Sonos One is that it’s not solely an Alexa device.

Trying to control loud music with an Amazon Dot next to a Play:1 proved frustrating, the same experience with a Sonos One worked perfectly. This means it can filter its own music out of the equation and discern your speech much more clearly.

One nice perk of doing this with the Sonos One versus the alternative solution of pairing your non-voice-enabled Sonos speakers with another Alexa unit is that the Sonos One knows what sound is coming out of it. In my house, we love listening to music while we cook dinner each night, and being able to casually tell the speakers to turn down or switch to the next song without having to free up our hands is blissful. That means you can use the Sonos app on your iPhone to start playing your Apple Music on Sonos and then take over voice from there. Right now voice control for choosing your music on Sonos One is limited to those services which are supported by Alexa, but all the rest of the controls, including asking Alexa which song is playing, work for anything playing on your Sonos. The icing on the cake? “Alexa, what song is playing in the kitchen?” can be the best kind of conversation starter. The best, though, is telling your speakers to play, pause, turn up, turn down, or skip to the next song. Selecting the specific music you want to hear can certainly – and very quickly – highlight the current limitations of voice parsing technology, but saying things like, “play me music for washing the dishes” or “play me something for late at night” can work brilliantly. Save favourites to My Sonos to get to the music faster, create alarms so you can wake up to a favourite radio station or playlist, filter explicit content, and more.After years of controlling music with a computer or an iPhone, moving to voice control is liberating. Trueplay™ puts the speaker-tuning capability of the pros in the palm of your hands, customising the sound of the speaker to the unique acoustics of the room. Turn on Speech Enhancement to emphasise the frequencies associated with the human voice and clarify dialogue, or enable Night Sound to reduce loud sound effects when you don’t want to disturb others in the house. Sonos soundbars feature special settings for TV, movies, and gaming. Listen to thousands of stations free on your system, including live radio from round the world, genre stations, artist-curated stations, and original programming from Sonos. Browse all your music, podcasts, radio, and audiobooks in one place. It’s a smart platform that brings together hundreds of services for streaming and control, including voice control. Adjust volume levels, group products to play in sync, or play something different in every room. With the Sonos app, you can control all your speakers, soundbars, and components. Get step-by-step instructions for setting up and adding speakers. Stream any song, podcast, audiobook, or radio station to any room, and elevate your TV, movie, and gaming experiences. Customise your system with speakers, soundbars, and components that connect over WiFi.

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