Talked about in Many forums, I finally decided to try SONOS voice app. Its a third party app with a very simple interface and all it does it mute your music for the time you talk through the App. You can play the audio with the flexibility of the SONOS system. Any room, All the rooms or Some rooms. Upto that its sheer bliss.
The only down side I see is that the starting of the app takes a bit of time and the volume for some reason I see as low compared to the music volume.
The app takes almost the same time as the SONOS app takes to start up so you cannot really complain about it. All the discovery of speakers process may be taking time.
Volume is a bit of a let down. At 50% level I can hear the music playing in my bedroom upstairs, standing down stairs where as at the same level the audio is barely audible next room. May be issue with my voice:-)
The final glitch is the feedback. If you try to use the Voice in a room where you are trying to play it, there will be the audio feedback. The developer of the app says something to effect that its to do with the buffering that SONOS forces on the feeds.
This is where I was wondering why SONOS them selves not updating their app to include voice into it. They have the API which others are using, they have the App. It will give a nice integrated interface. I am not even complaining why they are not giving a Karaoke when they have the technology to control the Vocals (SONOS Bar can boost the Audios and also it can drop the volume of Bass. May be this will work in only 5.1 Channel recording, I am not sure. But even simple apps are there which can identify the vocals and trip down that some what) since I think this may not be a sure hit solution, and they may not want to do a half baked one. BTW, a nice addition could be an integration with some Lyrics server and download and show the Lyrics on the app if that is possible!
So SONOS, I hope you do come up with the Public Announcement Option for SONOS!
The only down side I see is that the starting of the app takes a bit of time and the volume for some reason I see as low compared to the music volume.
The app takes almost the same time as the SONOS app takes to start up so you cannot really complain about it. All the discovery of speakers process may be taking time.
Volume is a bit of a let down. At 50% level I can hear the music playing in my bedroom upstairs, standing down stairs where as at the same level the audio is barely audible next room. May be issue with my voice:-)
The final glitch is the feedback. If you try to use the Voice in a room where you are trying to play it, there will be the audio feedback. The developer of the app says something to effect that its to do with the buffering that SONOS forces on the feeds.
This is where I was wondering why SONOS them selves not updating their app to include voice into it. They have the API which others are using, they have the App. It will give a nice integrated interface. I am not even complaining why they are not giving a Karaoke when they have the technology to control the Vocals (SONOS Bar can boost the Audios and also it can drop the volume of Bass. May be this will work in only 5.1 Channel recording, I am not sure. But even simple apps are there which can identify the vocals and trip down that some what) since I think this may not be a sure hit solution, and they may not want to do a half baked one. BTW, a nice addition could be an integration with some Lyrics server and download and show the Lyrics on the app if that is possible!
So SONOS, I hope you do come up with the Public Announcement Option for SONOS!
