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.
More than half
of smart speaker owners report at least trying a game on their device and nearly one - third say they use them monthly.
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.
However, Amazon Echo products still command nearly 72 % market share of current
U.S. smart speaker owners according to the Voicebot Smart Speaker Consumer Adoption Report published yesterday.
The purpose of this study was not to gauge smart speaker market penetration but rather to assess use cases
for smart speaker owners compared to non-owners.
The focus on Amazon Music with these new Alexa developments is likely meant as further indirect encouragement from the tech company to have
Echo smart speaker owners gravitate more towards its own music platform.
In what must be some sobering news for Google, according to this Voicebot report, only 18.4 percent of
American smart speaker owners have a Google Home product.
New research from Panasonic reveals that 69 % of
smart speaker owners identify listening to music and radio as the primary motive for buying one.
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.
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 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.
For
smart speaker owners with children in their household, the rates were higher for each period, although the overall trends were the same as the overall base: 45 %, 40 %, and 36 % for the respective top time periods.
Further, an online survey of 806 people, self - identifying
as smart speaker owners (Amazon or Google) transpired between Nov. 17 and 22.
Only about 34.3 percent of
smart speaker owners own more than one speaker, and only a paltry 7 percent own four or more.
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.
We gave it a middling score for its messy interface and lack of TV controls, though the hands - free Alexa voice commands are a nice touch for Amazon
Echo smart speaker owners.
Voicebot data show an average of 2.79 consumer uses per day
for smart speaker owners versus just 0.33 per day for smartphone owners.
Smart speaker owner use of games was another interesting finding from the report.
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.
More than one - in - four
smart speaker owners say they have purchased something using voice and 11.5 % say they are using the feature monthly.
Seventy percent of
smart speaker owners use them at least weekly and 86 % at least monthly.