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Sonos would be preparing the last touches of his virtual assistant, Sonos Voice Control. It would work alongside other assistants, like Amazon's Alexa.
4 November, 202120:07 Manuel FernandezRelated news
In 2019, Sonos bought a voice assistant similar to Amazon's Alexa or Google's Google Assistant: Snips. Neither in Spain nor in the rest of the world have we yet seen a Sonos assistant integrated into their audio devices, but this could be about to change in the coming months.
On Reddit, a user has spotted references in the Sonos app code to voice commands for an assistant called Sonos Voice Control. The evolution of the Snips assistant that the audio firm bought 2 years ago, and that was focused on privacy.
These references show that this assistant would be able to control the multimedia played on Sonos speakers, adjust their volume and even check the battery of these same speakers. Also, it might work with other assistants, like Alexa.
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These code references even have images related to the features of this Sonos assistant. For example, he found two groups of logos, which would imply that this assistant would work without problem with Alexa, the Amazon assistant. But not with Google Assistant.
Let us remember that a few weeks ago Sonos denounced that he wanted to implement a system to be able to use two virtual assistants at the same time on smart speakers, but that Google was preventing him. Although this is not a confirmed fact, the leaked logos would indicate that Sonos would implement this system in its speakers, allowing the Sonos and Alexa assistant to be used at the same time.
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In such a case, the logos would indicate that the Sonos assistant would not work at the same time as the Google Assistant, so if we had to use the Google assistant, we could not use another. However, none of this has been confirmed, although it is a clear indication that relations between Google and Sonos have not improved due to their legal disputes.
It's hardly the first hint that Sonos is close to launching its own assistant, one of the first being a survey earlier this year called Sonos Voice Control. Sonos has not wanted to answer these rumors, ensuring that they do not confirm this kind of speculation, so we will have to wait for the next releases of the firm.