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Why voice is much bigger than smart speakers
When people think of voice, most think smart speakers. In fact, more people use voice on mobile phones and in cars than smart speakers.
In 2018, there were 250 billion voice searches on mobile and other voice devices and that number is growing rapidly as people learn that asking is faster than typing. Voice search and verbal commands have become far more accurate than just a few years ago when many people were disenchanted with early iterations of services like Apple’s Siri.
We sat down with the leading voice on voice, Bret Kinsella, founder and CEO of Voicebot.ai to talk about where voice is going.
Among other things, we get into how podcasts can do better on smart speakers, why radio stations need skills and how to improve voice search.
Lets start with how people are using smart speakers
Sure. Media of all sorts is performing better through voice platforms on the smart speaker than anything else. There are more users and there’s more frequency of use of streaming music services. Those have absolutely been successful on the platform. Radio is actually starting to do much better. It’s moved up a…
