It's Friday again, which means that it’s time for our voice-first and related news weekly roundup. February 16-22, 2019Amazon and Google: Increase in Smart Speaker Sales2/19/19 According to the research firm Strategy Analytics Amazon increased its lead in global smart speaker sales in Q4 2018. Their latest…
Voice-First News Roundup for February 8-15, 2019…
The Alexa World Fair in Chattanooga has been the professional highlight of my year so far. It was my first conference, and I was honored for the chance to meet and learn from game-changers shaping the future of voice - which is, quite simply, the future.…
The Super Bowl is the number one television advertising event of the year, and many viewers are more interested in the awesome new ads they'll see than in the game itself! This excitement has led to the creation of some of the most famous, funny, and familiar ads of all time.…
While Assistant had fewer titles, its top games rivaled those on Alexa in both popularity and user sentiment.…
On Friday, January 25th Amazon released a series of teaser clips about a top secret beta testing program for new Alexa technologies. No information about the results of this program have been announced, except for a cryptic and tantalizing invitation to turn into the "big game" on 2/3/19.…
In the midst of Facebook’s launch of its voice-activated smart camera and display (Portal from Facebook), we thought it’d be interesting to find out how communication apps were faring on the two major platforms (Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant).…
To delve deeper into the state of voice shopping we decided to analyze the shopping categories of both the Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant stores for interesting trends and data points.…
What may be the most substantial difference between voice user-interface design and traditional visual user-interface design can be encapsulated by the motto "be available".…
To find out what’s tickling the fancy of weather aficionados worldwide (and to find out, what, if any, differences exist between platforms), we decided to analyze the weather categories of both the Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant stores.…