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home pod is going to reinvent music in our home the home pod is just under 7 inches tall along the bottom is a seven array beam formed tweeter pack that's packed with seven tweeters each with their own individual driver their precision acoustic horns the drive the audio from within and then out along the bottom with tremendous directional control and that'll become really clear in a bit as we talk about how it works it has a really big woofer 4 inch woofer upward-facing with a large motor to move a lot of air it's automatic basically zation and dynamic software modeling so that as we turn the volume up it's free from distortion and all of this is controlled by an Apple a8 chip compact enough you can put it most anywhere in your house you can put it on a table on a shelf against the wall in a corner and it intelligently and automatically detects the space that's within and it uses that information to adjust the audio to balance it and take full advantage of the environment and create a very spacious sound the siri team has worked very hard to adapt the domain of music and siri to be even greater and understand more of the questions we're going to ask about music play something new who's singing on this track something I asked all time was playing drums on this track and since series built-in there and you can speak to it well the teams also worked hard to make it a great and helpful home assistant as well we said the domain of music is something Cyrano's really well in home pod there are other domains as well we've worked hard to pick the first ones that we think matter most in a product like home pods of course you can play your podcasts but it can also do things like give you news give you weather traffic sports you can ask it to set a reminder set a timer text someone with messages and if you have homekit devices set up your home you can speak to your home pod and control your home kit devices so for example for the home pod set up you can say when do the Red Sox play next going to beat the Yankees trust me tune to NPR instead and if you have homekit devices set up you can say simple things like are the lights on turn the heat up turn on the air-conditioning bring the shades down halfway our team cares deeply about your privacy so for example it has that magic phrase hey Siri until you say it nothing's being sent to Apple it recognizes when you do say it and from that point it sends an anonymous Siri ID in order to help you with the command you're looking for and of course that communication is all encrypted we're really excited to tell you that home pod is going to be priced for 349 dollars