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The Impact of Voice Control: From the Smart Home to Connected Entertainment

Smart home adoption continues to be stymied by competing protocols and fragmentation, creating complexity for the end user. This is further intensified by the growing number of connected devices in consumers’ lives. Parks Associates research shows the average U.S. broadband household has 8.1 connected computing, entertainment, or mobile devices, plus another 2.1 smart home devices.

From the article "The Impact of Voice Control: From the Smart Home to Connected Entertainment" by Dina Abdelrazik.

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