It’s one thing for a company like Amazon or Google to create a synthetic voice for their assistants from scratch, but it’s entirely different when you hear a real, recognizable human voice - especially one with Esposito’s warm and reassuring tones. Instead, those recorded snippets provided the sonic DNA for a completely virtual version of Esposito’s voice.Īrmed with that data, and a big helping of machine learning, Esposito has effectively become the voice of Sonos Voice Control, and will likely never need to record another word in order to keep the system going. Contrary to what you might think, this wasn’t to provide Sonos with a library of Esposito’s canned responses, to be played back at the appropriate moment. Speaking with Sonos Dan Baker/Digital Trendsįor Sonos Voice Control, the company enlisted the help of actor Giancarlo Esposito, who spent many hours in a recording studio, speaking a variety of phrases and words into a mic. When I tried it, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Deezer, and Sonos Radio (naturally) were available to me, but several others, including Tidal, Stitcher, SoundCloud, and, Spotify, SiriusXM, and Plex were grayed out, with the words “not compatible” next to them. Unfortunately, not all services will work as a default. That brings up your list of compatible services. Once you’ve set up Sonos Voice Control on at least one speaker, you can go back into the Settings > Services & Voice menu, tap Sonos Voice Control, then tap on Default Service. Instead of saying, “Hey, Sonos, play Sting on Amazon Music,” you can simply say, “Hey, Sonos, play Sting.” But setting a default service means you can make your commands much shorter. Just like Alexa and Google Assistant, you can ask for streaming music services by name using Sonos Voice Control.
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