Sonos might be making its own Alexa-style voice assistant, survey suggests

Company’s own on-device voice control may be coming to its speakers

Sonos could be making its own Alexa-style voice assistant. It recently sent out a customer survey to gauge responses to the function, which would work slightly differently to most voice assistants by being completely on-device, and not routing requests through the cloud.

Its purpose? To let you control a speaker’s main functions like play/pause, search songs, and play music through other speakers on the same wi-fi network, all by speaking.

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