Steve Kovach August 30, 2016 at 07:30AM
Sonos is teaming up with Amazon.
The company announced Tuesday that Sonos speakers will now let you control your music with your voice using Amazon's Echo connected speakers.
The move marks a shift in priorities for Sonos as it attempts to compete with the budding trend of voice control in the home. Amazon's Echo, which is powered by its digital assistant Alexa, turned out to be a sleeper hit for the company, and proved there's a hunger to control music in the home with voice.
But Sonos' speakers don't have built-in microphones, so it'll have to link to the Echo speaker for voice control.
Sonos also announced a change to how you control music with your phone. The company partnered with Spotify so you can control the music playing from your Sonos speaker from the Spotify app instead of the Sonos app. The Sonos app has been heavily criticized for being clunky and difficult to use with various streaming services, so this will be a much easier solution for Spotify subsribers.
Here's a video demo of how the Amazon Echo will work with Sonos:
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