The Arduino is perfect for this purpose, but choosing it ruined a perfectly good pun and we can never forgive that. Well, not exactly universal control, but similar functionality at any rate.

Waveshare’s ESP32-S3-AUDIO-Board is an ESP32-S3-based low-cost smart speaker development kit with a dual microphone array, a speaker header, echo cancellation, surround RGB lighting, RTC, microSD card ...