31 percent
of smart speaker owners want their virtual assistants to control other devices in their home such as devices in the living room or kitchen.
Although, it's not all bad news for the smartphone, with 44 %
of smart speaker owners saying they use voice assistants more on their phones since getting a speaker.
Edison collected the data during a telephone survey of 1,010 adults the last week of December and combined it with a more in - depth online survey
of smart speaker owners in November.
A VoiceLabs
survey of smart speaker owners found that more than 40 percent of activity with the AI - powered devices is still related to playing music or books.
According to a new report released by Activate, the majority
of smart speaker owners just use them for a small set of mundane functions, like playing music, getting the weather, or setting alarms.
According to the Voicebot Smart Speaker Consumer Adoption report, only a little over half
of smart speaker owners claim to use their device daily, and only 12.7 % use it more than six times per day.
According to NPR and Edison's data, 42 %
of smart speaker owners say the devices are essential to their everyday lives, and 65 % say they wouldn't want to go back to life without one.
Twenty - nine percent
of smart speaker owners reported using smart speakers to research a product they were considering for purchase and 31 % had added an item to a shopping cart for later purchase consideration.
General information questions are tried by 91 %
of smart speakers owners.
Voicebot's Smart Speaker Consumer Adoption Report 2018 developed in collaboration with Pullstring and RAIN Agency found that 45.9 %
of smart speaker owners had a device in the living room and 41.4 % in the kitchen.
Forty - one percent
of smart speaker owners report having used their device to make a phone call and 34 % have used messaging.
General information questions are tried by 91 %
of smart speakers owners.
Forty - one percent
of smart speaker owners report having used their device to make a phone call and 34 % have used messaging.
Edison Research is out with new survey and ethnographic research data that reveals 42 %
of smart speaker owners have two..
Nearly two - thirds (63 %)
of smart speaker owners said they had a Google Home but no Amazon Alexa device.
The Voicebot Smart Speaker Consumer Adoption Report found that 26 %
of smart speaker owners had tried voice shopping at least once, while nearly 12 % claim to make purchases by voice monthly.
According to NPR and Edison's data, 42 %
of smart speaker owners say the devices are essential to their everyday lives, and 65 % say they wouldn't want to go back to life without one.
Edison Research is out with new survey and ethnographic research data that reveals 42 %
of smart speaker owners have two or more devices.
The Smart Audio Report found that over 50 %
of smart speaker owners used the devices more often than their first month of ownership.
If true, that may represent 10 %
of all smart speaker owners in the U.S.
Pandora recently reported that smart speaker listening for its platform has grown 282 % since last year and a recent Edison report found that 69 %
of smart speaker owners use their device to listen to audio content at least once a week.
Another interesting finding from the Edison survey is that 8 %
of smart speaker owners have both Amazon Echo and Google Home.
At that time Edison reported that 42 %
of smart speaker owners had two or more devices an 58 % has one.
In addition, 65 %
of smart speaker owners reported they were listening to more music and 20 % were consuming more podcasts after acquiring the device.
An extensive survey in 2017 by Edison Research and NPR found that 68 %
of smart speaker owners listened to music on the devices and several other popular use cases were related to news and information services where radio has content today.
A recent survey from Edison Research and NPR indicated 42 percent
of smart speaker owners have more than one home speaker.
Of those interviewed, it was also found that 42.2 %
of smart speaker owners are female and 57.8 % are male.