smart speakers

Alexa, who should I vote for?

11 May 2022 Hey Google, who will win the Australian election?Steve Ahern checks what smart speakers are telling voters, and is not impressed. 5.6...

5.6 million Australians now own a Smart Speaker

13 July 2021 Edison Research and Commercial Radio Australia have released the finding of the Smart Audio Report for Australia revealing that 26% of...

33% of all Americans now own a Smart Speaker

9 March 2021 Thirty-three percent of all Americans now own a smart speaker, a 22% increase from 2020, according to the latest research...

Radio sees an increase in listening via mobile phones and smart speakers

14 February 2021 The commercial radio industry has reported a strong year on year increase in the number of Australians listening to radio...

Smart Speaker consumption grows by 29% in the US

22 January 2021 Triton Digital have released new data around the consumption of U.S. AM/FM streams on smart speakers. Triton compared the consumption of U.S. AM/FM streams on smart speakers in December...

Radio’s mix of music and talk is a format people want to hear on smart speakers

15 November 2020 Geraint Davies talks streaming apps, smart speakers and podcasts Geraint Davies was at ARN for just over ten years, before leaving...

Big plans for Community Radio to expand to digital platforms: CBAA Conference

29 October 2020 The community radio sector is going digital big time next year with the planned launch of an app that will...

SCA’s live streaming now reaches 1.5 million

9 September 2020 SCA’s digital audio platforms have reached new highs with more people tuning into Hit and Triple M than ever before,...

The personality of voice assistants

17 June 2020 Siri is “disingenuous and cunning,” compared to Alexa, who is “genuine and caring,” according to voice designer Phoebe Ohayon.Speaking at...

Smart Speakers move beyond a novelty and radio is benefitting in the US

29 April 2020 Voicebot.ai have released their Smart Speaker consumer adoption report for 2020, and the major finding is that Smart speakers in...

ABC News flash briefings get smarter

29 February 2020 Analysis from Steve AhernA while ago, in an article on smart speakers, one of my observations was a criticism of...

Is Alexa being unfaithful?

12 December 2019 Analysis from Steve AhernI have been using my Amazon smart speaker all this year.I set her up so that she...

We can reach listeners in new ways: Andrew Morris discusses community radio’s iHeartRadio alliance #CBAAConf

29 October 2019 Dynamic data and being able to be found outside your listening area, are two of the big wins for the...

Different devices have different audience behaviours: James Cridland #CBAAConf

25 October 2019 James Cridland begun his presentation to the CBAA Conference with a history of radio and technology changes, and debunked the...

Face recognition, voice control and more: The Datafication Project #RadioAlive2019

18 October 2019 Douglas Nicol, leader of the Datification project at The Works, discussed in-depth research about how Aussies are using voice interfaces...

Australian radio partners with Google #RadioAlive2019

17 October 2019 CRA has made a third announcement at the opening of this year’s Radio Alive conference, revealing a new partnership with...

Smart soundbars are coming

8 September 2019 As smart technology continues to gain pace, digital technology supplier Frontier Silicon has launched a new control card to make...

China’s smart speaker market doubles it’s growth in Q2

26 August 2019 The global smart speaker market grew by 55.4% in Q2 of 2019 according to a new report from Canalys, with...

Smart speaker home invasion?

31 July 2019 A study conducted last year by the US based organisation Consumer Watchdog found that Google and Alexa have patented a...

Smart Speaker ownership grows by 75%, but is the government listening?

27 June 2019 The NPR and Edison Research Spring 2019 Smart Audio Report is showing that the number of Smart Speakers in households...

One third of US households will have a smart speaker this year

20 June 2019 In their latest estimates, Loupventures research team has updated their estimates for smart speaker ownership in the US, predicting that one-third...

How to train your smart speaker

29 May 2019 Analysis from Steve Ahern. Smart speakers are not quite as smart as we are led to...

Taking control of news on smart speakers

28 April 2019 Steve Ahern examines the issues around disaggregating radio news content for delivery over smart speakers. How we connect to news...

Interactive documentary making for smart speakers #RDE19

12 April 2019 Thanks to smart speakers, audio documentaries are about to evolve to the next level. Newspapers are rapidly moving into...

Fast and Curious discussion about smart speakers #RDE19

1 April 2019 One of the highlights of Radiodays Europe is the first day’s Fast and Curious session, where participants move tables every...

Australia vaults past U.S. smart speaker adoption – Voicebot.ai report

20 March 2019 Voicebot.ai has released its Australia Smart Speaker Consumer Adoption Report 2019 that now places the country ahead of the U.S. in...

Divergence and convergence of listening: smart speakers and the age of audio

9 March 2019 Steve Ahern’s assessment of the continuing evolution of audio devices and consumption.A few years ago I started tracking the divergence...

Speakers vs headphones

5 March 2019 Radio Tomorrow with James CridlandNew figures have come out this week from Triton Digital, who produce a ranker for (in this case)...

Alexa, who sings this song on Nova?

24 February 2019 NOVA Entertainment has launched a unique, voice-activated experience for the Nova audience, with the release of an Amazon Alexa skill.The...

Content creators must profit from the content they create: Joan Warner

13 February 2019 Earlier this week we published Michael Miller’s comments on Google’s new strategy to deliver radio news on smart speakers.He wasn’t...