The best smart speakers offer oodles of functionality beyond playing music. Smart speakers come with built-in voice assistants equipped with skills to help you with a range of everyday tasks.

Ty Pendlebury has worked at CNET since 2006. He lives in New York City where he writes about TVs and home entertainment. Expertise Ty has worked for radio, print, and online publications, and has ...

Amazon and other audio manufacturers (such as Sonos) offer a wide range of Alexa-enabled smart speakers and displays. From inexpensive mini spheres to booming towers, there are speakers for all ...

Are you looking for a great smart speaker? The true fight is between the Google Nest Audio and the Amazon Echo 4th Generation. These offer a great experience, and they are both at a super low ...

and yet I wouldn’t call it my favorite smart speaker — not even if I have both of them and my Nest Hub Max playing in symphony. Instead, my absolute favorite speaker is smart when it comes to ...

the smart home standard designed to connect and control all your smart home devices, could soon support speakers. Chris LaPré, CTO of the Connectivity Standards Alliance (CSA), which runs Matter ...

Expertise Smart home devices, outdoors gadgets, smartphones, wearables, kid's tech, and some dabbling in 3D printing Credentials Covered the mobile and smart home tech space for the past five ...

A new report says smart speaker support is in the works for Matter, but there’s a big catch regarding what this means for Apple users and the HomePod. Today The Verge reported that Matter is ...

Some Google smart speakers recently stopped responding to questions Users reported the problem with a variety of different devices Google investigated, and says the issue should now be fixed for ...

Here’s how it works. Hi-fi systems generally require three elements. You need a source (to play the music), an amplifier (to necessarily strengthen the audio signals) and a pair of speakers (to output ...

Bluetooth speakers have been a major fixture in my life ever since I picked up the original Ultimate Ears Boom in college. I use them to listen to podcasts or my favorite playlists while I’m ...