Out of the field, fashionable Sonos audio system assist Alexa and Google Assistant, and in a roundabout manner Siri as nicely. Between these choices, you would possibly assume Sonos could be lined in terms of voice-activated assistants, however the firm could also be engaged on an answer of its personal. In a customer survey noticed by VoiceBot.ai and later The Verge, Sonos describes a system that might reply to the phrase “Hey Sonos” and permit customers to manage music playback, seek for songs and transfer tracks between completely different audio system of their house.

Additionally, the corporate states the potential voice assistant would course of requests regionally, claiming that’s one thing that might permit it work quicker. It additionally factors to the privateness advantages of such a setup. “Sonos Voice Control interprets your voice entirely on the speaker, so no audio is sent to the cloud, stored, transcribed, or listened to by anyone,” the corporate says within the survey. We’ll notice right here Sonos purchased a startup that specialised in quick and personal on-device voice processing in 2019.

A Sonos spokesperson informed The Verge the corporate ceaselessly collects suggestions from its prospects, however that it had no extra info to share. If Sonos plans to launch its personal voice assistant, it’s not laborious to know its motivations. After spending at the very least a yr to get Assistant on its units, the corporate had a really public falling out with Google in 2020, culminating in an ongoing authorized spat between the 2.