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Voice-enabled smart speakers to reach 55% of U.S. households by 2022, says report
Adoption of voice-powered smart speakers is taking off. According to a new report from Juniper Research out this morning, smart devices like the Amazon Echo, Google Home and Sonos One will be installed in a majority – that is, 55 percent – of U.S. households by the year 2022. By that time, over 70 million households will have at least one of these smart speakers in their home, and the total number of installed devices will top 175 million.
The new forecast follows other reports pointing to growth in the voice-enabled speaker market, including one from eMarketer this spring which said that 35.6 million U.S. consumers would use a voice-activated device at least once per month in 2017, representing 128.9 percent growth over last year.
Despite the increased adoption of smart speakers with voice control capabilities, the new report points out that the majority of voice assistant usage won't be through these in-home devices. Instead, the most usage will occur on smartphones, with over 5 billion assistants installed on smartphones worldwide by 2022.
Amazon teaches Alexa Japanese for Echo's next destination
Amazon's Echo, Plus and Dot speakers will finally be available in Japan starting next week. To prepare for the devices' arrival in the island nation, the e-retail giant taught the voice assistant how to understand and respond in the Japanese language. Alexa SVP Tom Taylor said the company designed an all-new experience "from the ground up for Japanese customers, including a new Japanese voice, local knowledge and over 250 skills from Japanese developers."
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by c0lo on Saturday November 11 2017, @04:20AM (6 children)
In my books, "voice-powered" means "using the energy from voice to function".
Drifting meanings, is that a marketing/advertising tool?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 11 2017, @04:44AM (2 children)
It uses kinetic energy produced by your voice to trigger certain functionality.
Asshat.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 11 2017, @05:42AM
Powered to be triggered by a question about the definition of "voice powered", which by definition is voice powered, or at least text powered.
And we await the second iterartion: Triggered asshat worried about voice powered asshattery asking if this is the voice powered asshattery he was waiting for. Evidently, not. Trigger? Roy Rodger's Horse, had 'im stuffed. Stuffed Horse triggering to follow.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 11 2017, @08:42PM
I respectively disagree. Using the term "Voice-Powered" instead of "voice activated" is just plain incorrect. It's bad English, bad journalism, and bad (although not unusual) marketing. Pointing out that it's an incorrect and dumb term is not asshattery. At worse, it's pedagogy. But frankly, if someone wants to communicate, they should use the correct terms.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Bot on Saturday November 11 2017, @11:52AM
voice -> information -> database -> marketers -> profiling -> advertising -> income -> power
voice -> information -> database -> NSA -> profiling -> power
Yes it is voice powered, the joke is on us.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 11 2017, @04:40PM (1 child)
"In my books, "voice-powered" means "using the energy from voice to function"."
Piezoelectricity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piezoelectricity [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Saturday November 11 2017, @08:23PM
Yeah, well, make some computation "on a napkin" and look at the energy available in "voice" then compare with the energy required to power the entire device.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford