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I have a Sonos setup in my house, it's connected to Spotify Premium (as I suspect most Sonos systems are). I recently added a Sonos/Alexa hybrid thing because I
by _dan 8y ago
I have a Sonos setup in my house, it's connected to Spotify Premium (as I suspect most Sonos systems are). I recently added a Sonos/Alexa hybrid thing because I liked the idea of being able to play whatever I fancied while cooking.
"Alexa play <whatever> in the kitchen from spotify"
No other combination of words works. I'm not sure why it needs me to say "kitchen", all my Sonos systems are connected together, but if I say anything else it'll either play on just the one speaker or not work at all. I'm not sure why I must say "from spotify", but apparently I do or it ends up playing some random radio station from some other service.
I find things like this quite the mouthful:
"Alexa play Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath in the kitchen from spotify"
..and with a statement so complicated it often misunderstands and starts doing something random.
I would MUCH prefer a simple voice based API. Attempting to understand conversational speech properly rarely seems to work effectively and often just ends up with users memorising a command just to get it to understand.