QOTW: Do you own a smart speaker?

[HEXUS]

If so, which did you choose and does it get a lot of use?

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[Andi-C]

No, I don't own any smart devices ether. I'm happy to get up & turn on my device's & lights.

It's almost getting like Wall-E where robots are doing everything for us & the computer world want's us to be obese.

[spacein_vader]

No, I'm smart enough to have dumb speakers.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Nope,was thinking of maybe getting one and got a £15 pair of PMC DB1 standmounts instead.

I am a smart dinosaur.

[Kimbie]

I have 2 full echos, and one dot and think they are brilliant

[rabidmunkee]

Not talky smart, but ive got some networked ones i can push stuff to.

[blokeinkent]

Got a Google Home and a Mini at Xmas but still not got around to setting them up yet. Looks fun though

[Stuen4y]

I own an Echo and the only thing I can say is Meh. It was a gift and I would not pay money at this point. Once the whole ecosystem gets a bit more mature it will be a valuable asset to every home. At the moment it is a rather expensive toy.

[Percy1983]

Don't want something always listening. The sound quality isn't as good as my current speaker set-up which I can plug things into or stream to if wanted.

[el_raberto]

Hell no. Fed up with everyone and their granny tech companies trying ever so bloomin' hard to be helpful and control my life for me, no. I enjoy my option for complete manual control of my tech and life.

[hb904460]

Just no

[Myss_tree]

Just got an echo dot which is connected to hi-fi by cable and its a doddle to just ask it to play music from my Amazon account.
At £40 its as much as i am prepared to pay for now and i will get my monies worth out of it and a lot of the simpler things it does are what i want.
I think a rechargeable on would be a good idea so that you could carry it around like an old transistor radio.

[Peter Parker]

Google Home Mini came free with my Pixel 2. So far I've just said "Hey Google, play Radio Five Live" on some Saturdays and that's about all.

[Friesiansam]

Don't have one, can't see the point and don't want Google or Amazon listening to what I'm doing/saying all the time.

[Millennium]

hell no. I value Sound Quality over many things in life. The apple one may be ok but it's still mono. No to the rest.

[3dcandy]

2 x Echo Dot's. The better half is disabled so it's there to turn on lights for example at night if she needs the ladies room. Works beautifully well for that reason....