Smart hub

A wireless speaker device for executing commands based on voice recognition and detecting the presence of other wireless speaker devices, the wireless speaker device comprising:

• a Wi-Fi radio;
• a Bluetooth radio;
• one or more microphones;
• at least one loudspeaker;
• a signal generator for providing one or more audio information signals;
• an audio information interface for providing the one or more audio information signals for use in the generation of respective acoustic signals to respective loudspeakers;
• and
• one or more processors configured to execute program code to:
• communicate with a second wireless speaker device utilizing the Wi-Fi radio and/or the Bluetooth radio, to provide simultaneous audio playback of streaming content utilizing both the at least one loudspeaker located within the wireless speaker device and at least one loudspeaker local to the second wireless speaker device;
• communicate with one or more remote servers using the Wi-Fi radio to receive streaming content for playback from a plurality of content sources;
• receive acoustic signals using the one or more microphones;
• perform voice command recognition on the acoustic signals, to determine a connected speaker command;
• in response to the at least one connected speaker command, select particular content from one of the plurality of content sources as the streaming content for playback to both of the wireless speaker devices at the same time;
• and
• wherein the processor is further configured to:
• determine that the second wireless speaker device is proximal to the wireless speaker device, based upon both (a) detection of at least one Bluetooth beacon and (b) detection of unique sounding signals.