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Report: Voice assistant technology growth more than doubles

April 19, 2017

Homeowners are loving Internet of Things voice assistant technology as a new report reveals adoption of such tools more than doubled from 2015 to 106.

The Parks Associates research reports 56 percent of U.S. broadband households enjoying using voice assistance to control smart home devices such as Amazon's Echo and the Google Home. The adoption of smart speakers with voice assistants grew from 5 percent in the last part of 2015 to 12 percent in the final quarter of 2016, according to a press release.

"In the past five years, voice control and voice-based technologies have experienced massive growth in the consumer market, igniting the competitive landscape among current and emerging smart home players," Dina Abdelrazik, research analyst at Parks Associates, said in the release. "Voice interfaces are advancing due to continued improvements in machine learning and natural language processing, paired with the prevalence of portable devices. Apple increased consumer familiarity of voice control with its introduction of Siri in 2011, but the later-to-market Amazon Alexa has taken a clear lead in this category."