Soro adds Siri and Shortcuts support to your Sonos speakers

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What you need to know

Soros is a new app that adds support for Siri and Shortcuts to your Sonos speakers.
There are 24 new actions to use when controlling your smart speakers.

Sonos users have long looked at HomePods and wished for similar functionality and now they can enjoy exactly that thanks to a new app. Soros, available in the App Store now, adds 24 different conversational shortcuts that allow users to do anything from mute their music to set a particular TV input and much more.

Users can set the new actions up via Shortcuts and then use Siri as well, making everything work as if all of your legacy Sonos speakers supported this stuff from day one.

Soro extends Siri and the Shortcuts app with 24 new actions to control your Sonos speakers.Create quick actions and workflows to control your speakers with the Shortcuts app using widgets, Siri voice commands or automation.

Of the 24 different actions you can look forward to the following:

Group/Ungroup
Set Volume
Play/Pause/Stop
Mute/Unmute
Load music from your 'My Sonos' to your speaker or your speakers list
Load URL
Set a Sleep Timer
Set Line-In input
Set TV input
Change Repeat/Shuffle
Adjust Equalizer Settings (Treble/Bass/Loudness/Trueplay)
Turn Speech Enhancement On/Off
Turn Night Mode On/Off
Adjust subwoofer and surround sound settings

You can get your hands on Soros right now. It's priced at a one-time fee of $5.99 and is available in the App Store.

Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too.

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