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“Amazon is hiring 1,147 people for its Alexa business unit alone,...” I’m sure Google is not going let Amazon run away with the voice assistant market. There’

“Amazon is hiring 1,147 people for its Alexa business unit alone,...” I’m sure Google is not going let Amazon run away with the voice assistant market. There’s nothing like an arm’s race between tech titans to move the needle. With the additional efforts of Apple and Microsoft, voice as a user interface will soon be a solved problem.

samfisher83 9y ago
70% of people have bought alexa. http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-echo-vs-google-home-sales-estimates-chart-2017-5 http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-echo-vs-google-home-sa... I think amazon has a pretty big lead in the voice assistance market. I know you can use google assistant on your phone, but if you have your phone it might easier to just type it in.
- melling 9y ago
  Amazon has 70% of the voice assistant market. That’s not percentage of total households. Amazon has taken the Echo global so look for hundreds of millions of users soon. https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/3d8b2e1e-d8c5-41f6-a193-5456a590ef9a/amazon-echo-now-available-to-customers-in-over-60-countries https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/3d8b2e1e-d8c5-...
- TaylorAlexander 9y ago
  Which people? Surely not all people.
- dragonwriter 9y ago
  > 70% of people have bought alexa. No, the claim in the source that that article is based on is that 70% of people who interact with a “voice enabled speaker” at least once a month do so with an Alexa.
  - samfisher83 9y ago
    Lets supposed the true sales were 50/50. That would indicate a majority of google people are just buying the equipment and not ever using it.
    - dragonwriter 9y ago
      The true sales of “voice enabled speakers” could be 100% Amazon, and they could still not lead the “voice assistance” marketplace, or reach the claimed 70% of people. The big issue isn't confusing usage rates with market position (those probably are close, though in theory they could be divergent), it's confusing the voice assistance market with the voice-enabled speaker market (and then also confusing the current market for those products with the whole population.) Voice assistance isn't about selling dedicated voice devices, it's about voice-enabled services, for which dedicated devices are simply one gateway. Dedicated devices are a small share of voice assistant usage, far behind smartphones, and even behind the combined category of tablets and general purpose computers [0]. [0] https://www.voicebot.ai/2017/12/12/46-percent-americans-use-voice-assistants-pew-research/ https://www.voicebot.ai/2017/12/12/46-percent-americans-use-...

samfisher83 9y ago

70% of people have bought alexa. http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-echo-vs-google-home-sales-estimates-chart-2017-5 http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-echo-vs-google-home-sa... I think amazon has a pretty big lead in the voice assistance market. I know you can use google assistant on your phone, but if you have your phone it might easier to just type it in.

melling 9y ago
Amazon has 70% of the voice assistant market. That’s not percentage of total households. Amazon has taken the Echo global so look for hundreds of millions of users soon. https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/3d8b2e1e-d8c5-41f6-a193-5456a590ef9a/amazon-echo-now-available-to-customers-in-over-60-countries https://developer.amazon.com/blogs/alexa/post/3d8b2e1e-d8c5-...
TaylorAlexander 9y ago
Which people? Surely not all people.
dragonwriter 9y ago
> 70% of people have bought alexa. No, the claim in the source that that article is based on is that 70% of people who interact with a “voice enabled speaker” at least once a month do so with an Alexa.
- samfisher83 9y ago
  Lets supposed the true sales were 50/50. That would indicate a majority of google people are just buying the equipment and not ever using it.
  - dragonwriter 9y ago
    The true sales of “voice enabled speakers” could be 100% Amazon, and they could still not lead the “voice assistance” marketplace, or reach the claimed 70% of people. The big issue isn't confusing usage rates with market position (those probably are close, though in theory they could be divergent), it's confusing the voice assistance market with the voice-enabled speaker market (and then also confusing the current market for those products with the whole population.) Voice assistance isn't about selling dedicated voice devices, it's about voice-enabled services, for which dedicated devices are simply one gateway. Dedicated devices are a small share of voice assistant usage, far behind smartphones, and even behind the combined category of tablets and general purpose computers [0]. [0] https://www.voicebot.ai/2017/12/12/46-percent-americans-use-voice-assistants-pew-research/ https://www.voicebot.ai/2017/12/12/46-percent-americans-use-...