{"id":65630,"date":"2018-12-31T09:47:34","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T14:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=65630"},"modified":"2018-12-31T09:47:34","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T14:47:34","slug":"dc-voice-continues-to-pick-up-steam-smart-speakers-hit-critical-mass-in-2018-perez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2018\/12\/31\/dc-voice-continues-to-pick-up-steam-smart-speakers-hit-critical-mass-in-2018-perez\/","title":{"rendered":"DC: Voice continues to pick up steam &#8212; &#8220;Smart speakers hit critical mass in 2018 [Perez]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/12\/28\/smart-speakers-hit-critical-mass-in-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Smart speakers hit critical mass in 2018<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from techcrunch.com by Sarah Perez<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> (emphasis DSC):<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">We already know Alexa had a good Christmas \u2014 the app shot to\u00a0the top of the App Store\u00a0over the holidays, and the\u00a0Alexa service even briefly crashed\u00a0from all the new users. But Alexa, along with other smart speaker devices like Google Home, didn\u2019t just have a good holiday \u2014 they had a great year, too. <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>The smart speaker market reached critical mass in 2018, with around 41 percent of U.S. consumers now owning a voice-activated speaker, up from 21.5 percent in 2017.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>In the U.S., there are now more than 100 million Alexa-enabled devices installed \u2014 a key milestone for Alexa to become a \u201ccritical mass platform,\u201d the report noted.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smart speakers hit critical mass in 2018 &#8212; from techcrunch.com by Sarah Perez Excerpt (emphasis DSC): We already know Alexa had a good Christmas \u2014 the app shot to\u00a0the top of the App Store\u00a0over the holidays, and the\u00a0Alexa service even briefly crashed\u00a0from all the new users. But Alexa, along with other smart speaker devices like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,556,356,45,31,8,37,63,391,180,276,256,821,480,40,195,206,156,312,822],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-amazon","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-computer-science","category-convergence","category-digital-audio","category-future","category-google","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-innovation","category-interactivity","category-music","category-natural-language-processing-nlp","category-society","category-technologies-for-your-home","category-tools","category-trends","category-usability","category-user-experience-ux","category-voice-recognition-voice-enabled-interfaces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65633,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65630\/revisions\/65633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}