Denon Home smart speakers now support Apple’s Siri voice assistant. | Image: Denon
Way back in 2021, Ecobee’s thermostats became the first non-Apple device to integrate Siri voice control into its hardware, following Apple’s making the voice assistant available to third-party devices at WWDC that year. Fast-forward a few years, and there’s finally another device with Siri on board: Denon smart speakers.
While primarily known for its receivers, Denon’s line of wireless whole-home audio and music-streaming smart speakers position it as a competitor to Sonos and Bose. Denon also happens to be owned by Massimo Consumer Audio, a division of Massimo, the company whose patent infringement case around its pulse oximetry tech is currently blocking some of the Apple Watch’s health features.
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