HomePods will soon become yesterday’s news, as Apple is heavily rumored to be releasing what has been dubbed a Home Hub.

A recent rumor posited that Apple’s answer to the Amazon Echo, which we’ve been calling the Siri Speaker, could be announced at WWDC. This isn’t a new idea—we’ve been ruminating on the ...

It’s long been rumored that Apple is working on a competitor to Amazon’s Echo platform and Google Home in the form of a so-called Siri Speaker. While WWDC has been a software-only event in ...

As reported by HomeKit News, Denon now supports invoking Siri via its wireless speakers and sound bar. You can use the standard “Hey Siri” phrase to ask the assistant to control playback on ...

On the one hand, the smart speaker was playing catch-up in a segment Amazon and Google had already flooded with options, many of which cost a fraction of the price. Problem was, back then Siri's ...

Why wait for Apple? Armed with an old iPhone and nearly any speaker, you can create a voice-activated Siri speaker on the cheap. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of ...

It’s been almost a decade since Amazon launched the original Echo, ushering in the era of the smart speaker. Google followed suit shortly after with its entry, Google Home, and Apple made Siri ...

I’ve reviewed more than a thousand different consumer electronics products including headphones, speakers, TVs, and every major game system and VR headset of the last decade. I’m an ISF ...

If there is enough confidence that the phrase spoken was "Hey Siri," the device will activate. Once the command or request is given by the human speaker, Siri takes the audio, converts it into a ...

Of course, we have plenty of other picks on the page, for smart speakers that work with Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri — or some combination of them. We've tested them all in our homes ...