Sonos Unveils First Voice-Controlled Speaker, With Amazon's Help
- Device will ship with Alexa voice, Google’s Assistant later
- Speaker available for $199, undercutting Apple’s HomePod
Sonos CEO on First Voice-Controlled Speaker
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Sonos Inc. entered the growing smart speaker market, a move that forces the privately held company to both compete and cooperate with some of the world’s largest technology companies, including Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc. and Google.
The Sonos One smart speaker, introduced Wednesday at a press conference in New York by Chief Executive Officer Patrick Spence, looks similar to the company’s Play:1 speaker but adds six far-field microphones for capturing voice commands and a new array of buttons at the top for controlling the device.