Sonos speakers have been updated with Alexa Announcements

Sonos recently announced that its partnership with Amazon has come to fruition once again through an update that brings additional features to its smart speakers. A new cloud update is now rolling out to Sonos smart speakers, which will bring Amazon Alexa Announcements.

Two Sonos smart speakers are now getting the update – One and Beam, so if you have one, here is what you can do with the new Alexa Announcements. First off, you'll have to say “Alexa, announce,” followed by commands like:

• Alexa, announce that dinner is ready.
• Alexa, broadcast the midnight dance party is beginning.
• Alexa, tell everyone that the car is leaving in 5 minutes. 

Instead of “Alexa, announce,” you can also use “Alexa, broadcast” or “Alexa, tell everyone.” As soon as you say the announcement, you'll hear a short chime and then the announcement will play in your voice on all of your Sonos One, Beam, and compatible Alexa-enabled devices.

It's also worth mentioning that you'll be able to send announcements from Alexa-enabled devices, as well as from the Alexa App on Android and iOS devices. Also, if you don't want an announcement to be broadcast to a specific device, you can set it to Do Not Disturb mode. There's also an option that will allow you to turn off both inbound and outbound announcements per device.