With Amazon's Alexa and a very competent 10 watt speaker, the Safe and Sound can play music, listen to audiobooks, and access Alexa's thousands of skills. It's also compatible with Apple's HomeKit. However, the Safe and Sound requires a hard wired connection, and we found that the location of these connections doesn't make it the most conducive for using all of Alexa's capabilities. Of the 200 odd reviews on Amazon where it has an average rating of 3. 3 stars, the most positive commenters noted its ease of installation, as well as the fact that they could stream music, and that the alarm's nightlight was bright. Chief complaints were that it doesn't support all of Alexa's features such as Drop in, and that it's expensive. "The speaker is okay, definitely not audiophile level, but capable, installation was easy, and the light that shows it's listening or received a notification also doubles as a night light," wrote a Vine reviewer. Another owner noted that the mounting bracket is nonstandard, and it took a lot of effort to attach the smoke detector. "Alexa integration is pretty good," she write, "but you can't change the wake word, which is a problem if you have two installed within earshot of each other. And I kind of had to speak loudly to get its attention in a room with an air conditioner. Which meant that the upstairs one heard me, too.