News

Voice control comes to Deezer on Apple HomePods

Voice control comes to Deezer on Apple HomePod and HomePod mini and is now available for Premium, HiFi, Family and Student plan subscribers. Currently 70% of smart speaker owners use voice control to regularly play music and Deezer users can make this their default music service.  Then just ask Siri to play any song from their global catalogue of 73 million tracks. All paying subscribers with iOS 14.3 and above and the latest software on […]

Apple iOS 11.4 supports new HomePod music control
News

Apple delivers stereo and multi-room audio with iOS 11.4

Apple’s latest iOS upgrade brings stereo pairs and multi-room audio to its HomePod wireless speaker. Using AirPlay 2, music can be played in any room, moved from one room to another or the same song can be played everywhere using any iOS device, HomePod, Apple TV or by asking Siri. HomePod stereo pairs With two HomePod speakers set up as a stereo pair each HomePod automatically adjusts the audio for optimum sound quality using a […]

Amazon Echo and EchoDot - 2
Hardware

What is a Smart Speaker?

Smart Speakers are internet-connected speakers controlled by voice commands coupled with an artificial intelligence (AI) assistant responding to the owner’s requests. These voice controlled personal assistants are often referred to as Voice Assistants (VA). The most popular VAs are Amazon’s Alexa and Google’s Google Assistant with Siri powering Apple’s HomePod and Cortana controlling Microsoft enabled devices. Traditional electronics companies are rapidly playing catchup and Samsung recently announced its own Bixby powered speaker which is scheduled […]