Not exact matches
Xiaomi said that the speaker
offers «excellent sound quality», along with a six -
microphone omnidirectional
array to pick up voice commands and enquiries from anywhere in the room.
The Sonos One does
offer custom drivers however, along with a six far - field
microphone array that allows it to
offer the voice control feature we mentioned above.
Instead, it
offers an integrated
microphone array that supports Amazon's Alexa assistant — which conveniently can also control most home automation devices and take a number of spoken queries.
Amazon today began
offering devices in its Echo smart speaker range at discounted prices for the first time in the products» short history, as part of its Black Friday Deals Week.For those unfamiliar with the devices, the connected speakers»
array of
microphones lets users query voice - based assistant Alexa, who can be asked to do things like play music, read the news, use apps, check the weather, turn on the lights, set timers, and more.The full - size Echo speaker is being
offered at $ 140 (usually $ 180), while the second - generation Echo Dot — a smaller variant with the same features — has had $ 10 lopped off the price and is going for $ 40.
One advantage that Amazon has over the competition is that it currently has the best far - field
microphone arrays —
offering up to seven
microphones inside the Amazon Echo.
Google and Amazon both
offer rich, room - scale audio, while Apple has promised the highest - fidelity audio, with quality engineered sound, and
arrays of
microphones and tweeters.