The era of open voice assistants has arrived

[BlinkyLights]

@AshaiRey

Also, i hear so many things about the internal speaker but remember this is presented as a voice client not as a netwerk speaker. It can be but then you have to plug in you own speaker.
For hearing speech clearly you do not need a full range speaker. Even the speaker of a phone sounds crap.

That is all correct, it is FINE if you ONLY want voice commands.

I don’t have my own speakers OTHER than complete google minis currently I would like to replace… About 69% of 252 voters of this forum responded they expect their voice assistant to play music.

So we would need to purchase speakers… or it would be nice if there was a variant of this device with a equivalent speaker to a google mini / alexa dot / home pod mini.