TCL announces the first soundbar with Roku’s voice assistant
TCL’s Roku TVs are very successful, so it’s not too surprising to see the closely-aligned companies collaborating on the first soundbar to feature the Entertainment Assistant recently announced by Roku. Today at CES, Roku offered a preview of the soundbar that it’s plainly branding as the TCL Roku Smart Soundbar. The company is cautioning that these images aren’t the final product and that changes might occur before it ships. The Smart Soundbar will be part of TCL’s new Alto line of audio products.
But you can think of this as Roku’s answer to Google Assistant and Alexa, which both allow consumers to control content on their TVs (and often the TVs themselves) if they’ve got a supported streaming device like a Chromecast or Fire TV,...