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.
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.
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.
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.
30 percent of smart
speaker owner said the device is replacing time spent with TV.
Nearly two - thirds (63 %) of smart
speaker owners said they had a Google Home but no Amazon Alexa device.
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.
Not exact matches
«The key to growing a business is to consistently meet and find specific goals that move your business forward,»
says David Mitroff, Ph.D., a business consultant, marketing expert, keynote
speaker, and founder of Piedmont Avenue Consulting, Inc. «What most business
owners don't realize is that the process for business growth is an accumulation of small milestones rather than one huge leap.
Stanforth recommends $ 150,000 to get a store up and running, while Debbie Allen, the
owner of a Scottsdale, Arizona, women's clothing store and industry
speaker,
says you should start out with $ 200,000 for a 1,200 - to 1,500 - square - foot store — the average in this business.
The first Apprentice, who is now a motivational and business
speaker as well as a restaurant
owner and real estate developer,
said he used those lessons in building the brands of his own ventures.
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.
Karen Mills, former head of the U.S. Small Business Administration and the keynote
speaker at the event
said, «Small business
owners are seeing the number of alternative sources for financing their companies grow at an unprecedented rate, and while this is a good thing in terms of increasing access to capital, borrower protections have not caught up.
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None of us call him House
speaker, none of us call him by that,»
owner Gum Tong
said.
We provide the audio
speakers, the
owner provides the audio drivers,»
said Campbell.
Veterinarians, pet - shop
owners and humane society officials
said Tuesday that widespread changes proposed for Orange County's animal control law could do more harm than good.Those changes were first unveiled in November by the county's animal control committee.Commissioners took no vote on the proposal, which would add 80 pages to the county's 14 - page animal control ordinance, but will discuss the matter Monday.Several of the
speakers praised the county's animal control committee for working hard on the proposal, but
said some of its changes were uninformed and unreasonable.
A number of HomePod
owners are airing their dissatisfaction over Apple's first firmware update for the device,
saying the new software tweaks the
speaker's sonic fingerprint, a specific sound for which customers paid a hefty premium.
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.
The update, which will be pushed out to Echo
owners invisibly as an OTA update, works with Spotify Connect, to deliver what Amazon and the music service
say will be a seamless transition between your headphones and your home
speakers.
Forty - two percent of
owners say smart
speakers have become «essential to their everyday lives,» and 56 %
say that «they don't want to go back to life before them,» according to Inside Radio.
Many smart
speakers are designed to be chained together, and 11 % of the device
owners said they have three or more.
Among smart
speaker owners, 46.1 %
said they use the products to listen to AM / FM radio.
Bluetooth
speaker maker Libratone has announced that beginning this fall, Zipp and Zipp Mini
speaker owners will be able to use their devices to invoke Amazon's Alexa virtual assistant as well as tap in to Apple's forthcoming AirPlay 2 protocol.The company
said it will make a free firmware download available in the coming months that activates Alexa support in the wireless
speakers, which connect to Wi - Fi and have integrated microphones.Following the update, Zipp and Zipp Mini
owners will be able to touch the button on the top of the
speakers to ask Alexa for news, sports, traffic updates, and all the other things that can be done on Amazon's Echo range of
speakers, including controlling smart home devices.Libratone intends to add Apple AirPlay 2 support as soon as Apple
The latest research drives home a point of importance to all media publishers and distributors: Smart
speaker use is replacing other behavior — for example, 30 % of
owners say their
speaker is replacing time spent with TV.
Sonos
says that 50 percent of its
speaker owners already use Spotify.
«Although smart
speakers have not been around for very long, nearly one in five
owners say that these devices are the way that they most often listen to audio,» Webster
said.
The report also includes other encouraging signs for smart
speaker manufacturers: 70 percent of
owners said they are listening to more audio at home and 65 percent of polled users
said they wouldn't want to go back to not having a
speaker in their homes.
One lucky Huawei Watch
owner has taken to Reddit to
say that he has received a test build on his watch that enabled the
speaker.
Smart
speakers have demonstrated their staying power, with usage replacing at least some time that would've been spent on computers (26 percent of
owners said yes to the suggestion), television (30 percent), traditional radios (39 percent) and even smartphones (34 percent).
What's really interesting from the research is that 64 % of all
owners of a smart
speaker say that they couldn't go back to their life without it.
In that same vein, Echo smart
speaker owners will be able to
say «Alexa, open Cortana» to call upon Microsoft's digital assistant.
«The REALTOR ® Broker Summit is designed to help brokers hone the specific management and entrepreneurial skills they need to make their businesses thrive,»
says NAR President Tom Salomone, broker -
owner of Real Estate II Inc. in Coral Springs, Fla. «We are excited to provide attendees with inspiration from keynote
speakers, new insights into the brokerage industry from presenters, and incredible networking opportunities.»