TechAudioSonos just gave Spotify users a great free upgradeSonos Voice Control is now available for your Spotify subscription and delivers more than just playback controlWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
TechAudioSonos just gave Spotify users a great free upgradeSonos Voice Control is now available for your Spotify subscription and delivers more than just playback controlWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Sonos Voice Control is now available for your Spotify subscription and delivers more than just playback control
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
(Image credit: Sonos)
(Image credit: Sonos)
Good news forSonosspeaker owners with Spotify subs:Sonos’s voice control software has been updated to provide some useful Spotify integration.
Voice Control can do more than just skip tracks or adjust the volume, although of course it can do that too. You can tell it to play music in particular rooms, to add songs to particular playlists, to group and ungroup rooms and more. And it works with portable speakers too, so you can use it while playing songs from your backpack.
Spotify isn’t the only service with Voice Control support: it also works withAmazonMusic,AppleMusic, Deezer and Pandora. But Spotify’s bigger user base means its support is a bigger deal.
What Sonos speakers work with Voice Control?
As you’d expect, in order to use Voice Control with your Sonos kit you need to have a speaker with a microphone in it. In terms of the current range that means theEra 300, the Era 100, the Move 2, theSonos Roam, theSonos Onebut not the One SL, theArc soundbarand both generations of theSonos Beam soundbar.
To use Voice Control it’s just a matter of using the “hey Sonos” trigger phrase and then telling your speaker what you want to do: play Taylor Swift, add this song to your dinner party playlist, group the dining room and living and so on. You only need to use the trigger phrase once to get your speaker’s attention; you can then ask it to do multiple things without having to repeat the phrase every time. With the Arc and Beam soundbars you can also use voice commands to turn on the TV and adjust your home cinema settings.
Sonos, like Apple, is keen to point out that your voice isn’t being uploaded to the cloud where shenanigans and tomfoolery may occur: all of your voice requests are processed locally on the device and then deleted when they’ve been understood and acted upon. That’s reassuring, because of course the concern with smart speakers isn’t that someone’s listening in to your playlist choices but that the speaker might be hearing and uploading other audio too.
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