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Do most people in the US use some smart speaker at home and give commands via voice? I'm not in the US, so I'm curious how pervasive it is. Is it the minority

• daveslash 7y ago
  I suppose that it depends upon what social group you're in. I'd say for people under 50 who life in modestly affluent parts of cities - yes, smart speakers are increasingly popular. Not sure if I'd use the word "most people", but it's a lot.
• shantly 7y ago
  No, far, far from most. Most people in certain tech-heavy cities, maybe. Now, if you count voice assistants on phones, tablets, and laptops/desktops, most probably have access to at least one of those and maybe even most have tried it at least once. I doubt most (as in, over 50%) use them on a regular basis, though. Probably way under half.
• tasty_freeze 7y ago
  In my own small sample size of my family and wife's family, that is 8 households, only one has an amazon echo type of device. Recently I visited the house of the one who does have it for four days. They used it to (a) set timers and (b) ask it odd questions for humor's sake to show it off to me. After an alarm sounded, 25% of the time they would have to request it to stop multiple times. I was unimpressed.
• A4ET8a8uTh0 7y ago
  My immediate social circles do. It is definitely more common than I thought it would be ( I hoped the trend would go away the way 3d tv did ).