How is this a good thing? WTH?Everyone in my home including visitors can use Alexa to control things regardless of which room of the house they are in across all 3 floors whether I’m there or not.
How is this a good thing? WTH?Everyone in my home including visitors can use Alexa to control things regardless of which room of the house they are in across all 3 floors whether I’m there or not.
How is this a good thing? WTH?
That would be a terrible solution as often your phone is nearest to you but you might want to dictate to the speaker which could be at the other end of the room.Same as it has worked with iOS devices for 18 months or so now: Only the device nearest to you activates.
The biggest problem with Siri is just how often it either doesn't understand or just gets things wrong or just opens a website instead of giving you an answer.Apart from basic tasks what else do you really need an assistant for? As you can still control lights, heating with home kit so for that there’s not much difference.
What things do people generally do with google and Alexa that you don’t do with Siri?
If it has airplay it can stream well anything. Not sure if you order Siri through the speaker to get another device to stream or being able to a internet radio by itself (not sure what Apple Music offers in that regard which the speaker will directly support).
The Echo is not a decent speaker. If Apple's speaker is as good as people expect for the price, that will be its USP.The design looks nice, the speaker technology is probably the best out on the market but what's stopping me is the price. What I mean, is that I can get a more capable voice assistant, in a decent speaker setup for 80 dollars from Amazon, or spend 350 dollars be locked into Apple Music and deal with Siri's short comings.
I disagree, I think the Echo speaker is very good. I'm quite happy with music from itThe Echo is not a decent speaker. If Apple's speaker is as good as people expect for the price, that will be its USP.
The Echo is not a decent speaker. If Apple's speaker is as good as people expect for the price, that will be its USP.
Too late.
I haven't bought any of the 'smart' speakers yet. I'm getting a HomePod because of the microphone array that allows you to speak to it from any direction + Apple Music + Siri.
Obviously they should – if you give them permission. Privacy and security should be your number one concern with anything in your home connected to a network.You’re right, my wife and kids shouldn’t be able to control anything in the home we share.
That would be a terrible solution as often your phone is nearest to you but you might want to dictate to the speaker which could be at the other end of the room.
With Google it just seems to work it out, I'm not quite sure how but my Pixel never gets confused and take over. I think basically if you have a smart speaker in that room it takes priority and that works fine.
Sorry, I should have said "the device that makes the most sense”. Obviously if you are in a room with a HomePod it should give the HomePod the preference.
Obviously they should – if you give them permission. Privacy and security should be your number one concern with anything in your home connected to a network.
Nope. Read more on the HomePod. Aside from both making sound they are fundamentally different speaker designs.You only get the HomePod if you don't know the Libratone Zipp exists. Which is portable. And has literally all the features the HomePod will.
Read more about beam forming. It isn't perfect and Apple may not have gotten it right but the technology is maturing and it can do some pretty magical things that should seems possible. It is more than just bouncing sound.Surround sound?? It's one speaker that radiates sounds in 360 degree. Unless Apple has Dolby/DTS processor inside, you won't get anything. Plus I don't know why people buy sound bar to experience surround sound. How is it even possible? I understand the ginmic of using sound reflection. But really?? A sound bar replaces 5 speakers??
I agree. I'm really tempted to sell my Sonos One and buy the Pod when released.
But with Airplay 2 (and possibly Siri) on the Sonos One, do you think we'll be able to use voice control to select songs in our itunes play lists on the iPhone or iPad by asking Alexa?
No echo. Just the One. But it does have alexa. Will that work?If you have an Echo device, you can ask it right now to play music on your Sonos.
FYI: Even the inexpensive Echo Dot has seven beam-forming microphones. HomePod has six.
Echo’s ability to pick out your voice from across the room even while playing music, or with it sitting on a shelf right next to a loud TV, is astonishing.
Prime Music and Alexa are great, too.
I’m not fearful or uncertain about this, thanks. Just literally describing how Siri works and comparing it to Alexa. If you’re able to have the audio you’re listening to continue uninterrupted when a timer goes off or when you invoke Siri I’d be keen to know how to achieve that.Never had this issue, but keep spreading your FUD.