Since its launch in 2022, the capabilities of Sonos Voice Control have expanded to incorporate setting timers and checking the climate. However by the top of this 12 months, the good assistant will introduce compatibility with the Philips Hue good residence platform permitting it to additionally management lights by way of voice instructions, according to Hueblog.
In late 2019, Sonos acquired a Paris-based company called Snips that had created a “private-by-design” AI voice platform. Practically three years later, Sonos Voice Management was launched providing customers a substitute for Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant for controlling the corporate’s good audio system with voice instructions. Sonos Voice Management can be utilized to regulate quantity, group a number of Sonos audio system collectively, or play songs from streaming providers together with Apple Music and Spotify, with an emphasis on privateness since all instructions are processed regionally and by no means despatched to the cloud.
Its capabilities have slowly expanded over the previous few years, however interoperability with Philips Hue can be the primary time Sonos Voice Management is suitable with one other good residence platform. Specifics on how precisely you may management Hue lights with the good assistant aren’t identified, however Hueblog speculates that customers will have the ability to flip particular person lights on and off, modify brightness, or activate scenes utilizing voice instructions. Extra particulars will probably be revealed at a media event that Philips Hue has planned for September 3rd, 2025, in the course of the IFA present in Berlin the place it sometimes pronounces new services and products.
The Verge has reached out to Sonos about this potential main enlargement of Sonos Voice Management’s capabilities.