Exclusive: Sonos launches its first AI-powered sound mode to enhance speech, developed with a major hearing-loss charity – and it sounds great

• Sonos adds AI Speech Enhancement option to the Arc Ultra
• It's Sonos' first AI sound feature, with four levels of speech boost
• It's been developed with a hearing charity to help people with hearing loss

Sonos has launched a new version of its Speech Enhancement tools for the Sonos Arc Ultra, which we rate as one of the best soundbars available.

You'll still find these tools on the Now Playing screen in the Sonos app, but instead of having just a couple of options, you'll now have four new modes (Low, Medium, High and Max), all powered by the company's first use of an AI sound-processing tool. They should be available today (May 12th) to all users.

These modes were developed in a year-long partnership with the Royal National Institute for the Deaf (RNID), the UK's leading charity for people with ...