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<\/figure>\nYou can ask your smart speaker to play a song or playlist. You can ask it to set a timer while baking a souffl\u00e9. You can control your AV system. You can ask it to turn down the lights in your room, turn up the heating, ask for the weather report, check the traffic, book an Uber, tell it to create a to-do list or get it to tell you a joke.<\/p>\n
WHAT ARE SMART SPEAKERS?<\/strong><\/h3>\nVoice recognition technology, like Apple\u2019s Siri, has been around for a while. However, smart speakers such as Amazon\u2019s Echo and Google\u2019s Google Home are game changers. These speakers want to be your virtual assistant and transform the way you interact with your home, other devices, even your favorite brands. Based on voice-activated artificial intelligence, smart speakers can be connected to the third-party Internet of things devices, such as your thermostat or car doors, enabling you to order and control things using your voice! Smart speakers are equipped with a web-connected microphone, that is constantly listening for their trigger word. When a user activates a smart speaker to make a request, the device sends a record or stream audio clip of the command to a server where the request has processed a response is formulated. The audio clips are stored remotely and with both Amazon and Google\u2019s devices you can review and delete them online. However, it is not clear whether the data stays on servers after being deleted from the account. Furthermore, at the moment devices only record requests, however, as they advance and are we are able to do more with them, such as dictate emails to be sent, where will this data be stored?<\/p>\n
THE PRIVACY<\/strong><\/h3>\nAt the rate, the smart speaker and IoT industries are evolving it looks like they are going to become more and more present in our daily lives, therefore, it is essential to understand how they work and what you can do to prevent them from breaching your privacy. In conclusion, yes, theoretically smart speakers could pose a threat to privacy. However, they are not terribly intrusive, as they are only recording when awoken by a trigger word, and the likelihood of them picking up on a conversation they aren\u2019t supposed to, and then someone intercepting it is very slight. Google, Amazon and other sites have been logging our web activity for years, now it is starting to happen with voice snippets. In the pursuit of convenience privacy is sometimes sacrificed, and in this particular trade-off, convenience comes out on top of us!<\/p>\n
AI Smart Speaker for Kids + Education + Privacy Protection<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe smart speaker and IoT industries are evolving it looks like they are going to become more and more popular, as parents look for new and convenient ways to connect and protect their kids, in-home digital assistants will be a huge boon for the modern family, For marketers, the early engagement opportunity is currently focused on creating skills and apps that present a value exchange for how we shop, consume content, and most recently connect with friends and loved ones.<\/p>\n
The intimacy with which smart speakers have become part of millennial-led households is downright fascinating. A BabyCenter survey from earlier this year found that 42 percent of parents\u2019 households use either Google\u2019s voice assistant, Amazon\u2019s Alexa, Apple\u2019s Siri or Microsoft\u2019s Cortana multiple times a day. What\u2019s more, 22 percent say their virtual assistants are \u201clike another part of the family.\u201d During the upcoming holiday season, it will be intriguing to see how marketers try to drive sales in creative ways via AI devices.<\/p>\n
The report also found that 41 percent of early mainstream users (those who bought a smart speaker in the past year) with children talk to their smart speaker during meal times, compared to only 17 percent of first adopters (who’ve owned a smart speaker for a year or more). This speaks to some evolving usage trends as families get used to this new tech interface in the house and embedded in their daily lives.<\/p>\n
As for how children are using these voice-activated digital assistants, 55 percent of parents said their kids ask the speaker to play music, 44 percent said kids ask their speaker questions, and 40 percent command their speaker to tell a joke. Some other kid uses include playing a game (28 percent) and helping kids with their homework (25 percent), along with reading short stories and audiobooks and connecting with people both inside and outside the home.<\/p>\n
Smart-speaker use is reducing screen time spent on other devices & Want your kid to be bilingual?<\/strong><\/h2>\nData shows that only 40% of children in the US with two foreign-born parents can speak their parents\u2019 non-English language \u201cvery well.\u201d That number drops dramatically as you consider cohorts with one foreign-born parent, and reaches close to 0% with those who have no foreign-born grandparents.<\/p>\n
In addition to family members teaching children their mother tongue, smart-home devices\u2019 prominent places in the home could help reinforce those lessons. If more children have opportunities to speak and learn the languages tied to their identity, it could mean a significant transformation for immigrant parents passing along their culture, and children would have a better shot of hanging on to that heritage.<\/p>\n
Voices make sense<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe power of our voices has (quite literally) been right under our noses for some time now. Voice and conversation are the most natural forms of interaction and communication, so it makes sense that this sense is now pushing tech in new directions. Typing on a keyboard is pretty unnatural, but we\u2019ve all been babbling words since we were babies. Through language apps that get us talking in a more natural manner than text-based applications.<\/p>\n
In the near future<\/strong><\/h2>\nWhile personal devices can feel like they\u2019re pushing people further apart\u2014both as individuals and a society\u2014something as seemingly simple as a smart-home device has the potential to bring people closer together. The more people understand each other, whether through speech or customs and the more room the world has for cultural pride, the better off we\u2019ll all be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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At the rate, the smart speaker and IoT industries are evolving it looks like they are going to become more and more present in our daily lives, therefore, it is essential to understand how they work and what you can do to prevent them from breaching your privacy. In conclusion, yes, theoretically smart speakers could pose a threat to privacy. However, they are not terribly intrusive, as they are only recording when awoken by a trigger word, and the likelihood of them picking up on a conversation they aren\u2019t supposed to, and then someone intercepting it is very slight. Google, Amazon and other sites have been logging our web activity for years, now it is starting to happen with voice snippets. In the pursuit of convenience privacy is sometimes sacrificed, and in this particular trade-off, convenience comes out on top of us!<\/p>\n
AI Smart Speaker for Kids + Education + Privacy Protection<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe smart speaker and IoT industries are evolving it looks like they are going to become more and more popular, as parents look for new and convenient ways to connect and protect their kids, in-home digital assistants will be a huge boon for the modern family, For marketers, the early engagement opportunity is currently focused on creating skills and apps that present a value exchange for how we shop, consume content, and most recently connect with friends and loved ones.<\/p>\n
The intimacy with which smart speakers have become part of millennial-led households is downright fascinating. A BabyCenter survey from earlier this year found that 42 percent of parents\u2019 households use either Google\u2019s voice assistant, Amazon\u2019s Alexa, Apple\u2019s Siri or Microsoft\u2019s Cortana multiple times a day. What\u2019s more, 22 percent say their virtual assistants are \u201clike another part of the family.\u201d During the upcoming holiday season, it will be intriguing to see how marketers try to drive sales in creative ways via AI devices.<\/p>\n
The report also found that 41 percent of early mainstream users (those who bought a smart speaker in the past year) with children talk to their smart speaker during meal times, compared to only 17 percent of first adopters (who’ve owned a smart speaker for a year or more). This speaks to some evolving usage trends as families get used to this new tech interface in the house and embedded in their daily lives.<\/p>\n
As for how children are using these voice-activated digital assistants, 55 percent of parents said their kids ask the speaker to play music, 44 percent said kids ask their speaker questions, and 40 percent command their speaker to tell a joke. Some other kid uses include playing a game (28 percent) and helping kids with their homework (25 percent), along with reading short stories and audiobooks and connecting with people both inside and outside the home.<\/p>\n
Smart-speaker use is reducing screen time spent on other devices & Want your kid to be bilingual?<\/strong><\/h2>\nData shows that only 40% of children in the US with two foreign-born parents can speak their parents\u2019 non-English language \u201cvery well.\u201d That number drops dramatically as you consider cohorts with one foreign-born parent, and reaches close to 0% with those who have no foreign-born grandparents.<\/p>\n
In addition to family members teaching children their mother tongue, smart-home devices\u2019 prominent places in the home could help reinforce those lessons. If more children have opportunities to speak and learn the languages tied to their identity, it could mean a significant transformation for immigrant parents passing along their culture, and children would have a better shot of hanging on to that heritage.<\/p>\n
Voices make sense<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe power of our voices has (quite literally) been right under our noses for some time now. Voice and conversation are the most natural forms of interaction and communication, so it makes sense that this sense is now pushing tech in new directions. Typing on a keyboard is pretty unnatural, but we\u2019ve all been babbling words since we were babies. Through language apps that get us talking in a more natural manner than text-based applications.<\/p>\n
In the near future<\/strong><\/h2>\nWhile personal devices can feel like they\u2019re pushing people further apart\u2014both as individuals and a society\u2014something as seemingly simple as a smart-home device has the potential to bring people closer together. The more people understand each other, whether through speech or customs and the more room the world has for cultural pride, the better off we\u2019ll all be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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Data shows that only 40% of children in the US with two foreign-born parents can speak their parents\u2019 non-English language \u201cvery well.\u201d That number drops dramatically as you consider cohorts with one foreign-born parent, and reaches close to 0% with those who have no foreign-born grandparents.<\/p>\n
In addition to family members teaching children their mother tongue, smart-home devices\u2019 prominent places in the home could help reinforce those lessons. If more children have opportunities to speak and learn the languages tied to their identity, it could mean a significant transformation for immigrant parents passing along their culture, and children would have a better shot of hanging on to that heritage.<\/p>\n
Voices make sense<\/strong><\/h2>\nThe power of our voices has (quite literally) been right under our noses for some time now. Voice and conversation are the most natural forms of interaction and communication, so it makes sense that this sense is now pushing tech in new directions. Typing on a keyboard is pretty unnatural, but we\u2019ve all been babbling words since we were babies. Through language apps that get us talking in a more natural manner than text-based applications.<\/p>\n
In the near future<\/strong><\/h2>\nWhile personal devices can feel like they\u2019re pushing people further apart\u2014both as individuals and a society\u2014something as seemingly simple as a smart-home device has the potential to bring people closer together. The more people understand each other, whether through speech or customs and the more room the world has for cultural pride, the better off we\u2019ll all be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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While personal devices can feel like they\u2019re pushing people further apart\u2014both as individuals and a society\u2014something as seemingly simple as a smart-home device has the potential to bring people closer together. The more people understand each other, whether through speech or customs and the more room the world has for cultural pride, the better off we\u2019ll all be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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