Smart Homes Archives

Voice Activated Apartments

It looks like Amazon is going a B2B route with its smart speakers. Echo for Residential is the name of the new service and it’s basically a smart speaker management system for property managers.

Consumer Electronics Household Penetration Rates [CHART]

For the first time the three most-owned devices in US households are screen devices, says the Consumer Technology Association.

This presentation by Tom Webster of Edison Research presents the Spring 2018 edition of The Smart Audio Report from NPR and Edison Research. More than 43M people (18+) in the U.S. now own a smart speaker. And it’s no longer just the early adopters using these devices. New smart speaker owners are emerging as a distinct audience in terms of user profile, behavior and media habits.

Attitudes Toward Emerging Technologies [TABLE]

Table: Attitudes Toward Emerging Technologies

A global survey found that among a variety of emerging concepts, cryptocurrencies and their underlying technology, blockchain, leave the most people scratching their heads.

Voice Activation [INFOGRAPHIC]

This infographic by Raconteur illustrates the competition over voice activation technology between Google and Amazon via their smart speaker products.

Top Reasons To Use Smart Speakers [CHART]

For the time being, the most common use cases for Smart Speakers among households owning these devices are general questions, weather and streaming music.