Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a former senior reviewer who worked at The Verge from 2011 until May 2025. His coverage areas included audio, ...

Sonos launched a new voice control feature for its lineup of smart speakers. The music assistant lets you control playback with hands-free voice commands. It's also designed with privacy in mind, so ...

Sonos is adding its own voice control to its smart speakers, a music-focused assistant that puts privacy to the fore. While Sonos has supported Amazon Alexa and the Google Assistant on select models ...

Sonos devices have supported Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant for almost five years now. The Sonos One from 2017 was the first speaker the company made with built-in microphones, and almost every ...

iPhones have a reputation for being user-friendly, yet a recent email from Sandra in New Jersey shines a light on some hurdles she’s experiencing with the double-squeeze action on an iPhone. The ...

Sonos speakers have always been able to talk to one another over a wireless network, but now you can talk to them directly with your own voice. Focused on better privacy features than Google Assistant ...

Adding voice control to Home Assistant is quite easy now. Typically, you could set up a cloud-based or a local LLM with Home Assistant. Now, you can use the new Speech-to-Phrase feature with Home ...

Pictured: In addition to Sonos Voice Control, Sonos has released the Roam in three new colors: olive, wave (light blue) and sunset (orange). They are priced at $179 each. With Voice Control, Sonos is ...

Across the board, Apple takes tech accessibility seriously. Their most visible efforts come via iPhone features like Voice Control, but are hardly limited to iOS and iPadOS. While accessibility ...

Roku OS 14 already is official and theoretically has been rolling out to some users, but today it’s officially official, along with the announcement of the new Roku Ultra for 2024. And perhaps more ...

OmniFocus 3, which is a popular task app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, received a major update on Monday that makes it easier to use for people with motor limitations. That’s because the app now fully ...