'Alexa, how do people interact with Alexa?'

A new study analyzing the way users interact with their "smart speakers" shows that the most used feature of devices like the Amazon Echo and Google Home isn't to stream music or even to get the latest weather. The most commonly used feature of smart speakers is asking "general questions," proving that getting answers to life's daily queries and curiosities from a cloud-based computer voice is becoming an increasingly standard practice in today's society. To be specific, among people in the US who owned a smart speaker in the first quarter of 2017, 60 percent of them said they use… [Continue Reading]