New TTS Announce Feature For Sonos (Overlay)

Currently, that’s a known limitation.

The developer who maintains the Sonos integration implemented support for announce in version 2023.5.0 and here’s jjlawren’s description of the feature:

The new announce behavior avoids the need to snapshot/regroup/etc and will play over any currently playing music without interruption.

The tradeoff is that you need to explicitly target all rooms/speakers where you’d like the announcement to play and they are called individually, so audio playback may not be perfectly synced.

tl;dr
Sonos announce feature doesn’t currently support playing to all members of a grouped set of speakers.


NOTE

It’s my understanding that if the target speaker is a stereo pair, the announcement will only play via one of the paired speakers.

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