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The 2017 Voice Report by Alpine (fka VoiceLabs)
by Adam Marchick | January 15, 2017 | Voice Assistants
VoiceLabs is continuing to innovate as Alpine.AI. Alpine will create an intelligent Google Assistant app or Amazon Alexa skill for your business.
View our product offering that is helping evolve the voice-enabled Path to Purchase. Also, we are keeping an updated list of Voice Search Trends and Statistics.
In 2016, Amazon Echo evolved from novelty to in-the-home powerhouse, with over seven million devices in households. Google Home launched in November, legitimizing a multi-platform ecosystem of voice-first devices.
These two devices (Google Home, Amazon Echo) are simply the start of a much bigger future, where hundreds of millions of consumers will enjoy a more natural way of interacting with machines — conversational voice.
Using only your voice, you can now seamlessly play music, turn on your lights, order a pizza, and get breaking news. While early innovation is about taking phone and mobile app use cases and porting them to voice-first platforms, in 2017 we will see unique voice-first experiences that will take the world by storm. Get ready for always communicable family members, a personalized home assistant that makes life easier, and a conversational device that anticipates your needs.
As Mary Meeker pointed out in her 2016 Trends Report, voice commands to your phone are increasing. However, until we had an always-on, dedicated voice device, the Amazon Echo, the voice-first market did not exist.
A voice-first device is an always-on, intelligent piece of hardware where the primary interface is voice, both input and output.
VoiceLabs provides Voice Experience Analytics and is the most widely used Analytics service for Amazon Alexa and Google Home developers. In the past year, we have been fortunate to work with hundreds of voice developers and partner with both Amazon and Google in this exciting space. VoiceLabs created The Voice Report to help define this emerging market, map out key pieces of the…
