Best smart speaker for visibility – Amazon Echo Show 10: £239.99, .uk.Best smart speaker for sound quality – Bose smart speaker 500: £359.95,.Best overall smart speaker – Sonos One: £182.49, .uk.Price and quality vary hugely with smart speakers, and choosing the right one is a balance between audio quality and smart capability, with the two not necessarily coming hand-in-hand. With the advent of AirPlay2, even Siri is getting in on the third-party action: plenty of big audio brands are compatible with the software, giving you the chance to enter the Apple world with a little more flexibility. Each company makes its own speakers to show off smart capability and help users stick to a seamless ecosystem, but there are countless companies out there producing speakers compatible with Alexa and Google Assistant. From controlling your smart home products (the ones linked to your lighting, heating etc.), to analysing your sleep patterns (not creepy at all), smart speakers are a one-stop shop for making your home life just that little bit easier.įor proper smarts, the three big names are Google Assistant, Amazon Alexa and Apple’s Siri. What can a smart speaker actually do, besides talk to you and let you know what the weather is going to be like tomorrow?

To most people, the idea of a smart speaker is probably still fairly alien.

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