Bose Tips Alexa-Powered 'Home Speaker 500,' Soundbars

Bose is making a push into the smart speaker space with three new products with Amazon Alexa built-in.

The new wireless speakers promise high-quality sound and the power to option up your phonation commands, even over loud music. However, the products aren't exactly cheap. The Bose Habitation Speaker 500, for example, will retail for $399.95, making it $fifty more expensive than Apple tree's HomePod.

Bose acknowledged that the marketplace is full of other voice-controlled speakers. Merely the company said the Habitation Speaker 500 has some advantages over competing products, such as the power to evangelize "true stereo separation" which eliminates the demand to pair information technology with another speaker to create accurate stereo imaging.

Bose Home Speaker 500

To pick up your voice commands, the speaker leverages the company's microphone technology from its commercial headsets. Bose claims this allows it to hear your vocalism across a room, fifty-fifty if a party or other conversations are going on.

The Home Speaker itself is independent within an 8-inch alpine aluminum case that's designed to direct the sound in contrary directions, letting the audio bounce off the surrounding walls. If y'all're not a fan of vocalization controls, you can merely apply the physical buttons, located on the meridian of the speaker. The Home Speaker 500 also comes with a brandish that'll show off anthology fine art.

The Bose SoundBar 700

If you're seeking to build a dwelling house theater, Bose developed ii soundbars that have likewise been equipped with Amazon'southward Alexa. The Soundbar 500 will retail for $549.95, while the Soundbar 700 will get for $799.95. The larger soundbar, the 700, comes with a universal remote, but yous tin too control the speakers via the Bose Music app.

All three speakers can connect wirelessly over Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to stream your music. They arrive next month, and Bose says they'll support Apple AirPlay 2 by early 2022. Eventually, information technology will add support for other voice assistants but Bose didn't specify when or which ones.