I have a Sonos Roam, and I do use it with Alexa. I could also use it with Google assistant if I wanted to. I think other Sonos speakers also have Alexa as an option.
-- Christopher (AKA CJ) =>÷ Chaltain at Outlook, USA -----Original Message----- From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Kelly Pierce Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2023 11:08 PM To: viphone@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Sonos CEO says Amazon, Google aren’t "doing anything interesting" in audio - The Verge I heard a Charge five and the sound was awesome! Unfortunately, it did not have Alexa integration. I decided to go for a Marshall Alexa powered speaker with Blue Tooth. For those using sonos, do you wish you could use it with Alexa? Kelly On 2/10/23, 'Mervin Keck III' via VIPhone <viphone@googlegroups.com> wrote: > I thought about grabbing a Sonos Move this week as I have a coupon for > a discount that expires Sunday. But now I am going to wait and see if > they will refresh that model. I bought a roam last year and gave it to > Nicki, my wife, who had a specific need for it and it serves her well. > The accessibility of the Sonos system is very good except on the Mac. > I made several requests to have their Mac app as accessible as the PC > and iPhone app. > Regarding the battery status, however, I have several Sony Headphones > that will give me the battery status with the push of a button. I have > two > WH1000-XM4 which still sell on Amazon for around $250 even though the > XN5 model is available for around $350. The right side of the > headphones are touch but very accessible. The left side has push > buttons. One button speaks the battery status when pushed while the > headphones are in operation. > If I didn’t already own the WH1000-XM4 I would have the XM5 because of > the greater noise reduction for making calls in a crowded room. But > the XN4 are my go to headphones on the iPhone and totally accessible. > Getting back to Sonos, I have never been disappointed with their > quality or their committment to accessibility. If I lived in a house > rather than an apartment, I would own a lot more than the ten Sonos > speakers that I currently do own. > Merv > > _____ > If you have questions regarding Sonos, Fire TV, Fire Stick, Fire Cube, > Echo or other Lady A powered device, we are the oldest and largest > group dedicated to blind users: > main+subscr...@echoing.groups.io > main+<mailto:main+subscr...@echoing.groups.io> > > If you own an Apple Watch, let’s get uncomplicated together. We are a > group of blind users that have been around for a few years and support > any ad all models of the Apple Watch. > applewatchuncomplicated+subscr...@groups.io > <mailto:applewatchuncomplicated+subscr...@groups.io> > > >> On Feb 10, 2023, at 11:50 AM, Angie Nutt <an...@comproom.co.uk> wrote: >> >> Thanks for that: am interested in what the Era models will be like. >> >> While on the subject of Sonos: I was wondering recently whether there >> are any other brands who have speakers which one can speak to and get >> the information about the battery spoken back. When I discovered I >> had access to Sonos Voice I quickly got it set up and was blown away >> by the fact that I could do that. To my mind, that makes them >> eminently accessible. There are other bluetooth speakers and >> headphones on which one can press a button and get that information >> but this is the first time I’ve seen anything quite like what I can do with >> my Roam and Move. >> >> All the best >> Angie >> >> >>> On 9 Feb 2023, at 17:52, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca >>> <mailto:siegh...@live.ca>> wrote: >>> >>> Here the other article from The Verge: >>> >>> Sonos CEO says Amazon, Google aren’t "doing anything interesting" in >>> audio And he doesn’t sound particularly impressed by Apple’s >>> second-generation HomePod, either. >>> By CHRIS WELCH/ Feb 8, 2023, 3:53 PM PST >>> >>> During Sonos’ Q1 2023 earnings call, CEO Patrick Spence expressed >>> the usual optimism about his company’s financial performance, sales >>> momentum, and upcoming product roadmap. This man really loves the word >>> “flywheel,” >>> folks. But he also took clear jabs at Big Tech competitors, >>> including Amazon, Google, and Apple, for barely putting up a fight >>> in recent months. With Amazon rumored to be taking a hard look at >>> its ambitions surrounding Alexa and Echo products and Google largely >>> focused on all things Pixel, Spence said that Sonos faced no serious >>> competition during the crucial holiday quarter. “We’ve gone through >>> fiscal Q1, which is the height of the consumer electronics and audio >>> season and we’ve seen some of the traditional players go heavy >>> discounting and, kind of like a traditional playbook for consumer >>> electronics that we’ve always fought against and don’t really >>> believe in,” he said. “And then, the big tech players, we just >>> haven’t seen them active and we haven’t seen them doing anything >>> interesting.” >>> Neither of Sonos’ primary smart speaker rivals launched any new >>> audio hardware during the holiday quarter. And Apple’s >>> second-generation HomePod arrived after it had already ended. But >>> Sonos doesn’t seem all that impressed with or concerned about Apple’s >>> resurrected $299 device. >>> “We never want to get overconfident in these things, but you know, >>> even seeing what’s emerged recently, from Apple, I could not be more >>> excited or confident about the product roadmap we have and our >>> ability to take more and more of that $96 billion global audio market,” >>> Spence said. >>> Google’s most recent home audio product is the aging Nest Audio, and >>> Amazon’s fall 2022 hardware event went light on smart speakers: the >>> company introduced a refreshed Echo Dot and added a new white color >>> option for the top-of-the-line Echo Studio. The regular Echo speaker >>> was last refreshed in 2020. >>> I just feel like there’s others that are probably questioning their >>> investments in this area, and we are investing in four new >>> categories. We are going to raise the bar in our existing >>> categories. I mean, we’ve got a lot going on,” Spence added. >>> Sonos has said it will release a product in the first of those new >>> categories sometime in 2023. In the nearer term, Sonos will be >>> revitalizing its high-end home audio lineup with new speakers, >>> including the Era 300 and Era 100. Both are designed to showcase >>> spatial audio and Dolby Atmos. A second-generation Sonos Move >>> portable speaker is also under development, The Verge has learned. >>> Discounts on Sonos products over the holidays helped the company >>> deliver strong earnings and beat Wall Street expectations for the Q1 >>> fiscal quarter. This was the first time that Sonos had been able to >>> offer those promotions in three years; the multi-room audio leader >>> struggled to keep its speakers and soundbars in stock during the >>> covid pandemic, facing the same supply chain woes that reverberated >>> across the tech industry But the deals were back this time — even if >>> some of them just returned Sonos products to their former pricing. >>> Either way, the company put greater emphasis on bundles that boost >>> its percentage of multi-product customer households. The average >>> number of products for each Sonos household is currently 2.98. 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