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Global smart speaker market to grow by 21 per cent in 2021

Heading into 2021, with many countries facing the prospect of lockdowns, it’s expected people will decide to bring new devices into their homes to help with being cooped up inside again

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59 per cent of smart speaker users have privacy concerns – report

The majority of smart speaker users (7 in 10) say their devices cause privacy concerns, according to The Case for Voice Control, a new report released by Hub Entertainment Research.

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Century Communities launches smart home initiative

Century Communities, Inc., a national home builder, has announced the launch of its new initiative, Century Home Connect, which will implement Google Assistant technology into all of its soon-to-be constructed

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Amazon is accounting for 63 per cent of the US smart speaker market

Amazon’s total domination of the smart speaker market continues to roll on with its Echo family of devices now accounting for 63 per cent of the smart speakers in use

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Amazon sees its smart speaker market share halved

9.2m smart speakers were shipped in Q1 2018, with Amazon continuing to lead the way ahead of Google despite having its market share nearly halved. According to Strategy Analytics, Amazon

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Amazon Echo still dominates the smart speaker market, but Google Home is pegging it back

Amazon’s Echo devices are continuing to dominate the smart speaker market but its lead is slowly being eaten into by Google Home and other devices. 40.7m people in the US

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Google Home gets free voice calling in the UK

Around half a year after introducing voice calling in the US, Google is now rolling out the same feature on its Home smart speaker in the UK. The introduction of

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Voice shopping through AI assistants will hit $40bn by 2022

Voice shopping accounted for $2bn in spend last year but this is expected to jump to $40bn in 2022, as the number of smart speakers in homes more than quadruples

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Google has sold a Home device every second since October

Google has revealed that it sold more than one Google Home device every second since it started shipping the Google Home Mini back in October. The Google Home Mini was

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Google permanently disables Home Mini button after speaker is found accidentally spying on users

Google has permanently disabled a button on its Google Home Mini smart speaker ahead of launch, after the device was discovered listening in on users conversations without consent. This issue

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