Sonos One Speaker Announced with Alexa Support at Launch and Assistant Support in 2018

Sonos, a small company dedicated to sound and multimedia that has been making waves recently, is the latest big player looking to get into the smart speaker game with their Sonos One smart speaker. This market is currently dominated by Amazon and their Echo line (powered by Amazon Alexa) and Google with their Home line (powered by Google Assistant). However, unlike the mentioned smart speaker lines, which only support a single voice assistant for their speaker, they are instead taking a slightly different approach to it.

According to Sonos, the just-unveiled Sonos One will support multiple voice services, music playback, podcasts, audiobooks, and more multimedia content. However, the most interesting feature of this speaker is, arguably, the fact that it will be able to support multiple major voice assistants, seamlessly switching between them at user command. At launch, it will support Amazon's Alexa assistant service, which includes support for using Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, and other sound services with your voice. And in 2018, it will also get support for the Google Assistant, bringing in all the goodies of the Google ecosystem, like smart home integration, to do lists, questions and answers, and a lot more. This makes the Sonos One the first smart speaker to support multiple voice services simultaneously.

Also, current Sonos speaker owners will get Amazon Alexa through a software update, bringing support for this voice assistant to millions of existing owners across the US, the UK, and Germany. It's not clear whether the Google Assistant will come to existing devices, as the company has only mentioned Assistant support for the Sonos One starting next year. The Sonos One will launch globally on October 24th with a $199 price tag, and it can already be pre-ordered from the Sonos website. If you'd like to read more, you can have a read at the official Sonos press release, where they made a number of announcements aside the new smart speaker.

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Source: Sonos

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