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Amazon Dominates Voice-Controlled Speaker Market

posted by on Wednesday May 17 2017, @09:54AM   Printer-friendly
from the OK-Alexa,-tell-Cortana-to-call-Siri dept.

takyon writes:

Amazon is dominating the voice-controlled speaker market, according to a new forecast from eMarketer out this morning. The maker of the Echo-branded speakers will have 70.6 percent of all voice-enabled speaker users in the U.S. this year – well ahead of Google Home's 23.8 percent and other, smaller players like Lenovo, LG, Harmon Kardon, and Mattel, who combined only account for 5.6 percent of users.

The new report backs up another from VoiceLabs released in January, which also found that Amazon was leading the voice-first device market, thanks to Echo's popularity.

While the market itself is not expected to be a winner-take-all scenario, competitors like Amazon and Google will win entire homes, as most consumers have said they wouldn't consider buying a competing device once they already own one voice-controlled speaker.

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/08/amazon-to-control-70-percent-of-the-voice-controlled-speaker-market-this-year/

Gee whiz!

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by bradley13 on Wednesday May 17 2017, @01:41PM (1 child)

    by bradley13 (3053) on Wednesday May 17 2017, @01:41PM (#511085) Homepage Journal

    AFAIK, in most places you must warn people and receive their permission before recording conversations with them. Yet, these remote control devices send voice data continuously to some remote server for analysis, and apparently the data is often retained [wired.com]. So...how is that different from recording?

    Anyone have any idea what the legal situation is here?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @04:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @04:28PM (#511193)

    The situation is very simple: YOU ain't got no rights...