It took loads longer than anybody anticipated, however Sonos lastly started rolling out Google Assistant help for its Sonos One and Sonos Beam good audio system on Tuesday.
I received a sneak peek on the new capabilities at a demo in Palo Alto throughout Google I/O and got here away impressed, with one caveat: You’ll want to decide on one or the opposite digital assistant for every Sonos speaker in your house. You gained’t be capable of say “Hey Google” in a single breath and summon “Alexa” with the subsequent—except you’re speaking to completely different audio system.
Sonos is rumored to even be working to help Apple’s Siri digital assistant on its good audio system, and an organization press launch contains this quote from Sonos CEO Patrick Spence: “We imagine a day where we’ll have multiple voice assistants operating concurrently on the same device.” Today, you possibly can solely use Siri on an iPhone or iPad to manage Sonos audio system that help AirPlay 2 (particularly, the Sonos One, Beam, Playbase, and the second-generation Play:5).
Google Assistant is being rolled out as a free replace to U.S. customers on Tuesday, whereas residents of the U.Okay., Germany, Canada, Australia, France, and The Netherlands will get the combination in July. Additional nations will obtain the replace on a rolling foundation within the coming months.
