Topping market research firm Parks Associates’ list of Top 10 Consumer IoT Trends in 2017 is this: Voice control is vying to become the primary user interface for the smart home and connected lifestyle. At the CES 2017 show in Las Vegas I saw—and heard—that trend in full force, with demo after demo of connected products controlled using Amazon Alexa, Google Home, and other interactive voice interfaces. Clearly, voice control is set to become a big deal in the IoT. But what does it mean to designer engineers working on the IoT’s “things?”
From the article "Hear the future: IoT voice control" by Oliver Cockroft.
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