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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/GUI-Discharge on 2025-03-23 03:54:18+00:00.
As a current user of Amazon Alexa with sonos products, I am now very concerned about the announcement of Alexa+ and the privacy concerns that it now creates. I will no longer be able to opt out from sending my voice recordings to the cloud and have them routed locally, as well as no longer being able to delete recordings.
I've got 5 days to find a new voice assistant and have already started looking into the esp-32-S3-Box-3 and its integrations form homeassistant but that's way more involved than I care to be as I don't have the time for it either.
I've used Alexa because it worked and was very simple to setup and not very time consuming. Is there something anyone uses that works with Sonos, or not, that is just as good and local and not being given to a cloud service that can't be deleted. As a pre-emtive answer any one that say's just switch to google on the Sonos... I will as soon as they put back in "Don't Be Evil" in it's code of conduct clause.