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it's crystal to the verge here in New York City where we just saw the Sonos one it's the first ever sono speaker that is built-in voice controls Sonos finally has its own smart boys controlled speaker and it's called the sono Swan it works with Amazon's Alexa goes on sale October 24th and costs $1.99 the same price as the old play one speaker the soloist one looks identical for the play one from the front and it sounds exactly the same but on top are new microphones that listen for you when you ask Alexa to play music or control your smart home or just answer a question so you can say Alexa play some time petty or Alexa turn off the lights just like you would on an echo and it works the same way so no one will support Google assistance sometime next year so you'll be able to pick one or the other or maybe even use both at the same time unfortunately not every music service can play your spoken song requests right now Spotify won't be supported until after launch and Apple music doesn't work either Amazon music pandora iheartradio and others dufoy support voice out of the box and your basic commands like pause or skip this track work everywhere so no someone might have some of the same features as an echo but your music is gonna sound a lot better first and foremost this is still a music speaker you can put two Sonos ones together for a stereo pair or at the new speaker to your current zone was set up anywhere in your house Sonos is also redesigning its smartphone app where you can stream music or podcasts from any number of popular services so it's easier to use but other companies are also starting to make their voice speaker's sound better Amazon's brand new echo has improved sound quality and is half the price of the Sonos one and on the more expensive side Google just announced a $400 speaker the home Maxx and then there's Apple which is also said that its upcoming home Pottle sound better than all the competition when it ships in December the other way Sonos has realized how easy and valuable voice control is people love listening to music on the echo and home not because they sound great but because they're so convenient that's what led Sonos to try and defend off everybody else with this $200 Sonos won and you can pre-order it starting now if buying a whole new speaker is too much for you you can try the new public beta to control your isono system with a $50 echo dot now we're going to be comparing all these new speakers very soon for more videos like this just check out the verge calm