Canalys, a market research firm, has reported that Amazon shipped three times the number of smart speaker/display units as Google in the third quarter of 2019. The company says that Google was responsible for 3.5 million units compared with Amazon’s 10.4 million. Alibaba cam in second with 3.9 million. During Q3, shipments of 28.6 million smart …

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Google’s automated concierge feature, Duplex, has finally made it to Chrome browsers. Google confirmed that, as part of the Google Assistant in Chrome, the test is currently being applied to movie ticket booking sites, Android Police reported. Ads are already being tested in Assistant, although handling transactions seem to be a big part of the monetization …

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There is a large number of surveys that focus on smart speakers, but there is some new data from Kantar Worldpanel that stands out when it comes to comparing attitudes and behaviors of Google Home and Amazon Alexa owners. The survey was conducted in late 2018, and there are two main takeaways from it.  According to the …

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Google has added a microphone to the Google.com search field on Android phones to enable mobile voice search.  With this addition, it begs the questions as to why add this at all since users had the ability to do voice search on the mobile web, with the Android keyboard microphone. Below are screenshots from Search Engine Land …

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The results of Loup Ventures annual “smarkt speaker IQ” test has now been published, and the surprise winner is Google Home.  According to the results, Apple’s HomePad and Siri bested Alexa and Cortana, which is quite a surprise. 800 questions was asked to the virtual assistants, and then graded based on whether the question was understood …

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Consumer Intelligence Research Partners (CIRP) now reports that smart speaker growth is beginning to level off.  It could be that the novelty is fading. According to the firm’s latest survey, their analysis argues there were 53 million smart speakers in US homes at the end of September.  That’s up from 50 million in June.  Echo devices …

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When to comes to advantages, Google Assistant devices has one over Echo in international markets.  The company, who wants to capitalize on this fact, is expanding multilingual support and has announced a raft of new partners. One of the many things that was announced, one of the things users can do s switch between languages …

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According to Canalys, looking at over 50 million Alexa devices sold, fewer than 500,000 have been the Echo Show.  The device fails to live up to the promise of a “smart speaker with a screen.” If we take the Echo Show and use it as a point of reference, the Lenovo Smart Display with Google Assistant, which has …

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Consumer Intelligence Partners (CIRP), reported this week, using consumer survey data, that Apple’s HomePod smart speaker make market share gains against rivals Google Home and Amazon Echo.  The firm is saying that Apple’s device has 6 percent of the US smart speaker market. According to the report, Echo has a 70 percent share compared to …

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In an announcement by Google, Google Assistant on Google Home devices is now able to communicate with you in Spanish.  The devices were previously able to translate to and from Spanish, but now, users can do more advanced actions in Spanish.  Some examples includes asking it to play music, asking it to control smart devices around the …

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