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Sonos is Working on Its Own Version of Siri

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Popular smart speaker manufacturer Sonos is planning to introduce a voice assistant service that will compete with Siri, Google Assistant, Alexa, and other voice-based personal assistants, reports The Verge.

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Sonos Voice will allow Sonos users to play and control playback on Sonos speakers. Sonos speakers already support Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant, and Sonos Voice will be able to be used in lieu of these services. Sonos speakers do not support Siri, but a limited number of Siri voice commands can be used with Sonos products that support AirPlay 2.

When it comes out, Sonos Voice will be compatible with Apple Music, so Sonos users will be able to ask the voice assistant to play Apple Music content. It will also work with Amazon Music, Pandora, and Deezer, but Spotify and YouTube Music won't be compatible.

As with all voice assistants, Sonos Voice will have a wake word, so users can say "Hey Sonos" to activate the feature for playing music. Activation and voice recognition will be on device for privacy reasons, and audio commands will not be uploaded to the cloud for processing.

The Sonos Voice feature is set to launch on June 1 in the United States, with an international rollout to follow soon after.

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I don’t say this meanly but I don’t know anyone who uses voice assistants anymore.

When they first came out people were excited. Then it became a chore and they weren’t really improving. Still misunderstanding instructions. Still having a jerky response.

hen came bad stories that Amazon was sending recording snippets to real people to listen to them. Then people didn’t trust them anymore.

Then hacking, spying, Pegasus, ransomware, Facebook data all became bad stories.

I don’t think this damage can be fixed for a while. Maybe that’s good. Maybe we need to use our hands instead of asking a robot to do something. Maybe we need to talk to people more often again.

This post was too long to be haiku. My waifu is calling. She’s a real person.
 
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ponzicoinbro said:
I don’t say this meanly but I don’t know anyone who uses voice assistants anymore.

When they first came out people were excited. Then it became a chore and they weren’t really improving. Still misunderstanding instructions. Still having a jerky response.

hen came bad stories that Amazon was sending recording snippets to real people to listen to them. Then people didn’t trust them anymore.

Then hacking, spying, Pegasus, ransomware, Facebook data all became bad stories.

I don’t think this damage can be fixed for a while. Maybe that’s good. Maybe we need to use our hands instead of asking a robot to do something. Maybe we need to talk to people more often again.

This post was too long to be haiku. My waifu is calling. She’s a real person.
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Our family has both Google and Siri and we cannot think living without them :)
My eldest son really gets pissed off when vacationing at my parents' home where he cannot turn off the lights by voice or ask Google for whatever random trivia question :D
 
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ponzicoinbro said:
I don’t say this meanly but I don’t know anyone who uses voice assistants anymore.

When they first came out people were excited. Then it became a chore and they weren’t really improving. Still misunderstanding instructions. Still having a jerky response.

hen came bad stories that Amazon was sending recording snippets to real people to listen to them. Then people didn’t trust them anymore.

Then hacking, spying, Pegasus, ransomware, Facebook data all became bad stories.

I don’t think this damage can be fixed for a while. Maybe that’s good. Maybe we need to use our hands instead of asking a robot to do something. Maybe we need to talk to people more often again.

This post was too long to be haiku. My waifu is calling. She’s a real person.
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I only do when driving or to control the lights from bed. Other than that, I find it mostly useless!
 
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Are they creating their own voice assistant from scratch? If so, sounds like a tall order and I wish them the best in that endeavor. Even Apple didn't create Siri, but purchased it from a company that was going to release it for iOS, Android, and Blackberry OS.
 
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ponzicoinbro said:
I don’t say this meanly but I don’t know anyone who uses voice assistants anymore.

When they first came out people were excited. Then it became a chore and they weren’t really improving. Still misunderstanding instructions. Still having a jerky response.

hen came bad stories that Amazon was sending recording snippets to real people to listen to them. Then people didn’t trust them anymore.

Then hacking, spying, Pegasus, ransomware, Facebook data all became bad stories.

I don’t think this damage can be fixed for a while. Maybe that’s good. Maybe we need to use our hands instead of asking a robot to do something. Maybe we need to talk to people more often again.

This post was too long to be haiku. My waifu is calling. She’s a real person.
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Control lights, volume, texting, calenders, Apple tv, car temperature, etc. I use voice throughout the day and find it very useful.
 
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ApostolisApo said:
Our family has both Google and Siri and we cannot think living without them :)
My eldest son really gets pissed off when vacationing at my parents' home where he cannot turn off the lights by voice or ask Google for whatever random trivia question :D
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My sister's family has Google Nest (or whatever it's called) in their household. They like they can just ask Google for info like on weather, events coming up (tied to their calendar, or in general), or if they need to get ahold of someone, ask it to broadcast a message. Still remember in the olden' days how people would scream at the top of their lungs that dinner is ready, or somebody needs help with something :D

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I only do when driving or to control the lights from bed. Other than that, I find it mostly useless!
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I play clips from YouTube, and it's nice to tell it to pause, rewind or ff 'x' seconds rather than fiddling with on-screen controls 😎
 
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ackmondual said:
Are they creating their own voice assistant from scratch? If so, sounds like a tall order and I wish them the best in that endeavor. Even Apple didn't create Siri, but purchased it from a company that was going to release it for iOS, Android, and Blackberry OS.
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They did release Siri, I had it on my iPhone 4 before Apple bought them out, killed the app and made it a feature exclusive to the iPhone 4s
 
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ponzicoinbro said:
I don’t say this meanly but I don’t know anyone who uses voice assistants anymore.

When they first came out people were excited. Then it became a chore and they weren’t really improving. Still misunderstanding instructions. Still having a jerky response.

hen came bad stories that Amazon was sending recording snippets to real people to listen to them. Then people didn’t trust them anymore.

Then hacking, spying, Pegasus, ransomware, Facebook data all became bad stories.

I don’t think this damage can be fixed for a while. Maybe that’s good. Maybe we need to use our hands instead of asking a robot to do something. Maybe we need to talk to people more often again.

This post was too long to be haiku. My waifu is calling. She’s a real person.
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The fact that another company is investing resources in voice control says otherwise.
 
ponzicoinbro said:
I don’t say this meanly but I don’t know anyone who uses voice assistants anymore.

When they first came out people were excited. Then it became a chore and they weren’t really improving. Still misunderstanding instructions. Still having a jerky response.

hen came bad stories that Amazon was sending recording snippets to real people to listen to them. Then people didn’t trust them anymore.

Then hacking, spying, Pegasus, ransomware, Facebook data all became bad stories.

I don’t think this damage can be fixed for a while. Maybe that’s good. Maybe we need to use our hands instead of asking a robot to do something. Maybe we need to talk to people more often again.

This post was too long to be haiku. My waifu is calling. She’s a real person.
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I use Siri countless times a day, with great success.
It makes daily life and tasks so much easier, whether I’m at my desk, in the car, or chilling on the sofa.

Losing Siri would be massively inconvenient.
 
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I didn't think Sonos had enough of a user base for this to be good and by good, I am not setting the bar high if being better than Siri is good. You can't build a good voice assistant without having enough people using it to get a decent level of feedback on whether it is getting it right when people ask it to do things.

I do have an echo in my study, to be fair it is amazing in terms of overall accuracy whatever I throw at it.
 
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