Voice Intercom for Sonos Reviews

When I press the “Hold to Talk” button there is a delay before I hear the sound from the speakers. That’s fine. But as soon as I *let go* of that button, the speakers cut off. In other words, I hold down the button, say my phrase, and let go of the button. Meanwhile, the speakers (with a second or two delay) play my message but STOP as soon as I let go of the button, and before they’re done playing my message.

There’s an option to turn off “Real Time Audio” which fixes this, but then it plays my message twice for some reason.

Let me start by saying VoiceIntercom developer is on top of problems or challenges that arise. An update to Sonos messed up VoiceIntercom . The developer was honest and forthcoming about fixing it as fast as possible. A few days later the new revision was out and it works perfect again.

The only thing I can recommend is to turn off “Real Time Audio” in the settings. It causes the echo that some people complain about. It happens because it starts playing the page before you finish saying something and you get an echo. Uncheck that box in the settings and the problem goes away. Just remember to hold down the button until you’re done talking.

I don’t usually write extended reviews but VoiceIntercom does exactly what it’s supposed to do.

Well worth the money.

I just got VoiceIntercom today. I chose the this one although there was another that was free-probably should have just used that one.
It will not connect to my system. Everything is up to date we use the Sonos speakers daily, but VoiceIntercom doesn’t not stay connected.
It takes like 30 tries and will finally connect, but then I left my house and when I returned it was disconnected again and won’t seem to re-connect. My son is having the same issue with his iPad. So annoying and a waste of time.

Really great app. Worked just as well as I hoped it would. Makes using my Sonos a lot more fun! One feature request — an “always on” mode. So I can leave it on and talk to people with VoiceIntercom open. It would make it easier so I don’t have to press and hold every time.

Thanks! Really good app. 🙂

I just downloaded VoiceIntercom and with seconds I was able to scare the snot out of my son’s friends by “haunting” the Play 1 in our living room. VoiceIntercom auto-detected our Sonos setup and all four speakers allowing me to easily select the right one. I’ll be using VoiceIntercom to page the family when needed. Well worth $1.99.

Great little app for your Sonos speaker system. I use this to yell at my kids to get out of the pool or just annoy my wife in general when I’m bored and want to talk to her from the other room. She loves it! 😬😎
Also I emailed the creator when it was broken due to a Sonos update and he was very responsive and quick to get it back up and running! A+

I do not understand why so many other people are rating it poorly, for it works wonderfully. It may cause an echo to be in the same room as the speaker, but if you are in a state of general boredom, it is quite enjoyable to listen to the echo.

No longer need to shout through the house to call the kids to dinner. Intercom, you are a voice saver!!! I love VoiceIntercom!!

It took a few tries for VoiceIntercom to recognize my Sonos network, but it eventually found it. The sound quality is good. Now I can boss the kids around upstairs and down without yelling.

If you are far from the speakers and don’t care about delay, then this works. If you are trying to use this as a microphone, don’t bother: the delay even at the lowest buffer setting makes this a useless microphone. Also if you are anywhere near the speaker you will hear an echo. I didn’t try to use a mic to cancel background.

There’s nothing better out there. My sister spent money on an intercom system. I just use my Sonos as an intercom right from my phone. Now everyone can hear me. Best thing ever.

Works super easy & right away!!! So grateful for VoiceIntercom! Wonderful to be able to send announcements to kids in different rooms or the back yard over the Sonos speakers. They can talk back using VoiceIntercom .

Worked fine until a day or so ago it just stopped working. Won’t connect to the sonos system even though they both are in the same network.

So it’s a great app if it worked.

VoiceIntercom is really great. My mom can wake me and my brother up in the morning now by talking into VoiceIntercom. Also we can scare each other now. 😋

Yelling in the house just went down 50%

Please add hands free feature and Bluetooth headset support. Thanks.

Used to work great, but quit working about a year ago. Hopefully they will fix, but after this long I’m not hopeful. It did not auto discover my sonos system. I had to manually enter the up of one of my devices for it to discover.

Old app worked great. I hate this one. I use the intercom at the office but, with VoiceIntercom, the volume on the intercom is NOT independent from the music. So, I have to crank the music up way too loud, use the intercom, then turn music back down. On top of that, sometimes it won’t resume whatever was playing before announcement

Didn’t work on my Sonos system. Connected to it, recognized the groups, but when I pushed to talk, no sound came out. Further, I had to power cycle my four of my speakers and Apple TV has for whatever reason that group stopped playing sound from the TV until a reboot.

At first it would not even see our Sonos.
Then it sees the speaker, I can play music from my iPhone on the Sonos, but the Intercom app sends nothing to the Sonos.
I wrote to their Help line with no response.
Latest try is to delete it and try to reload.
I hope others have a better experience.