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Celebrate Smart Home Day On Sunday Nov. 3 With Siri, Alexa and Hey, Google!
2019 smart home statistics From Safesmartliving.com
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Giving Voice To Verbal Interface
More than 5 billion devices will be in use in less than five years
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What The Evolution Of Digital Assistants Means For Retailers
Two-thirds of voice shoppers access a digital assistant every day
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V-Commerce To Find Its Voice In 2019: CTA
A quarter of consumers will utter a purchase next year.
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Amazon Moves Deeper Into White Goods With 1st Branded Appliance
Amazon is tightening its grip on smart home with new Alexa products and services.
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Cavalier Audio Welcomes Alexa To The Family
Bluetooth and Wi-Fi speakers can be linked for left/right sound
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DTS Play-Fi Adds Klipsch, Onkyo, Phorus, Soundcast & More To Alexa Linecard
Multiroom control capable once Amazon account is linked
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This Is What People Are Actually Asking Amazon’s Alexa
One marketing firm recently conducted a survey to find what people are asking of their smart speakers.
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Sonos Deepens Relationship With Alexa With New Beam Soundbar
Smart speaker will add support for other digital assistants in the future
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Acer To Offer First Laptop With Built-In Alexa
Acer announced its Spin 3 and Spin 5 models will include Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant pre-installed.
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Everything You Need To Know About Smart Speakers & How Consumers Use Them
A handy compendium of smart speaker and shop-by-voice stats
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LG Appliances Now Bilingual
LG's SmartThinQ majaps are now formally fluent in Alexa and Google Assistant.
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Alexa, Google Home Neck-And-Neck In Consumer Poll
The split underscores today’s schizophrenic shopper.
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Alexa, Google Assistant On A Collision Course
Amazon holds the lead in voice-assisted devices, but Google will catch up this year, says Futuresource
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Was Hillary Behind Alexa’s Outbursts?
Jimmy Kimmel suggests the former Secretary of State may be connected to a rash of creepy cackling.
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Amazon-Google Feud Reignites
The digital giants are at it again in the battle for smart-home supremacy.
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Bezos: Amazon To ‘Double Down’ On Alexa After Record Q4
The company pointed to historic holiday volume and widespread Alexa adoption.
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Amazon Super Bowl Ad Asks: What If Alexa Lost Its Voice?
None other than founder/CEO Jeff Bezos makes a cameo appearance in this year's Super Bowl spot.
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Global Smart Home Market Worth $6B In 2017, And Rising Fast
Smart home devices have shaken off their novelty image and are moving mainstream, becoming one one of the fastest growing consumer electronics categories of...
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Amazon Cooking Up More Feats For Alexa
The virtual assistant can now control microwave ovens by voice.
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How Best Buy Is Using Alexa Against Amazon
Best Buy has stolen the shopping-by-voice show this holiday season with the most effective use of Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant platform.
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Better Hurry: Smart Speakers’ Time Has Come, And May Soon Go
Which digital assistant speaks the loudest?
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Consumers Can Now Purchase Items From Best Buy Via Amazon Alexa
Best Buy is making a select number of products available for purchase via Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant.
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Intel To Release Developer Kit For Amazon Alexa
Intel has released a developer kit for Amazon Alexa, paving a clear path for third-party developers to integrate the voice-control technology into their products. ...
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Amazon Alexa’s Getting Personal
Amazon has taken voice recognition to the next level for its Alexa virtual assistant. The omnipresent helpmate can now be trained to distinguish and remember...
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The State Of The Smart Home: Voice Control
Fifty-five percent of U.S. broadband households find it appealing to use voice control to control or understand the status of connected devices, according to...
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Amazon Invading Apple’s Ecosystem With Its Echo Smart Speakers
Smartphone users seem to be taking sides in the Amazon vs. Google smart speaker race. New analysis from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) indicates...
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Sonos One Seeks To Be The Speaker For All (Digital) Voices
Sonos continued its commitment to voice control with the launch of a new “platform-agnostic” speaker that will be compatible with Google Assistant, Alexa and...