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

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: 2) by MostCynical on Wednesday May 17 2017, @10:38AM (4 children)

    by MostCynical (2589) on Wednesday May 17 2017, @10:38AM (#510993) Journal

    According to the article, between 7 million and 11 million of these things have invaded/found homes in the US.

    Apparently, there are 125 milllion households in the US, although only 118 million "TV homes"
    https://www.statista.com/statistics/183635/number-of-households-in-the-us/ [statista.com]
    http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/news/2016/nielsen-estimates-118-4-million-tv-homes-in-the-us--for-the-2016-17-season.html [nielsen.com]

    So these devices can now be found in about 8% of US homes.

    Who needs privacy when you have such convenience!

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    • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday May 17 2017, @11:40AM (3 children)

      by kaszz (4211) on Wednesday May 17 2017, @11:40AM (#511009) Journal

      Better change habits when visiting other people. Ask for a declaration of listening devices and remote operated "security cameras" indoor. Any failure to comply should leave them out of the loop of any sensitive matters that considering big data is just about anything.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @01:16PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @01:16PM (#511066)
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @04:48PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @04:48PM (#511215)

        Sound deadening condoms for voice-controlled speakers?

        • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @04:51PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17 2017, @04:51PM (#511220)

          "The Cone of Silence".

  • (Score: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Wednesday May 17 2017, @11:24AM (1 child)

    by Rosco P. Coltrane (4757) on Wednesday May 17 2017, @11:24AM (#510999)

    Amazon dominates the conceiled home-spying device market.

    • (Score: 2) by inertnet on Wednesday May 17 2017, @05:16PM

      by inertnet (4071) on Wednesday May 17 2017, @05:16PM (#511234) Journal

      I foresee a market for home microphone detection devices, in combination with wire cutters. Or super glue.

  • (Score: 2) by kazzie on Wednesday May 17 2017, @11:27AM (1 child)

    by kazzie (5309) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday May 17 2017, @11:27AM (#511001)

    I used to be really keen on voice-controlled speakers. Then I wasn't. Then I was again.

    Does that make me a voice-controlled oscillator?

    • (Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday May 17 2017, @12:22PM

      by Bot (3902) on Wednesday May 17 2017, @12:22PM (#511030) Journal

      No, it makes you an average female.

      (hey, cool down, I learned it from the internets)

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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by kaszz on Wednesday May 17 2017, @12:22PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Wednesday May 17 2017, @12:22PM (#511029) Journal

    So how is the open sourced voice control software doing?

  • (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...

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