1. A system comprising: a microphone; a loudspeaker; a network communications interface configured to provide data communications with a network-based service; one or more audio processing components configured to produce a first signal using the microphone, the first signal representing user speech; one or more processors; one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform actions comprising: sending the first signal to the network-based service using the network communications interface, the network-based service being configured to perform automatic speech recognition to determine that the user speech comprises a request for a status of data communications with the network-based service; receiving, from the network-based service, a query for the status of data communications with the network-based service; determining the status of data communications with the network-based service; sending data to the network-based service indicating the status of communications with the network-based service; receiving a second signal from the network-based service, the second signal representing speech indicating the status of data communications with the network-based service; and producing the speech represented by the second signal using the loudspeaker.