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...
13 July 2021 Edison Research and Commercial Radio Australia have released the finding of the Smart Audio Report for Australia revealing that 26% of...
9 March 2021 Thirty-three percent of all Americans now own a smart speaker, a 22% increase from 2020, according to the latest research...
14 February 2021 The commercial radio industry has reported a strong year on year increase in the number of Australians listening to radio...
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...
15 November 2020 Geraint Davies talks streaming apps, smart speakers and podcasts Geraint Davies was at ARN for just over ten years, before leaving...
29 October 2020 The community radio sector is going digital big time next year with the planned launch of an app that will...
9 September 2020 SCA’s digital audio platforms have reached new highs with more people tuning into Hit and Triple M than ever before,...
17 June 2020 Siri is “disingenuous and cunning,” compared to Alexa, who is “genuine and caring,” according to voice designer Phoebe Ohayon.Speaking at...
29 April 2020 Voicebot.ai have released their Smart Speaker consumer adoption report for 2020, and the major finding is that Smart speakers in...
29 February 2020 Analysis from Steve AhernA while ago, in an article on smart speakers, one of my observations was a criticism of...
12 December 2019 Analysis from Steve AhernI have been using my Amazon smart speaker all this year.I set her up so that she...
29 October 2019 Dynamic data and being able to be found outside your listening area, are two of the big wins for the...
25 October 2019 James Cridland begun his presentation to the CBAA Conference with a history of radio and technology changes, and debunked the...
18 October 2019 Douglas Nicol, leader of the Datification project at The Works, discussed in-depth research about how Aussies are using voice interfaces...
17 October 2019 CRA has made a third announcement at the opening of this year’s Radio Alive conference, revealing a new partnership with...
8 September 2019 As smart technology continues to gain pace, digital technology supplier Frontier Silicon has launched a new control card to make...
26 August 2019 The global smart speaker market grew by 55.4% in Q2 of 2019 according to a new report from Canalys, with...
31 July 2019 A study conducted last year by the US based organisation Consumer Watchdog found that Google and Alexa have patented a...
27 June 2019 The NPR and Edison Research Spring 2019 Smart Audio Report is showing that the number of Smart Speakers in households...
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...
29 May 2019 Analysis from Steve Ahern. Smart speakers are not quite as smart as we are led to...
28 April 2019 Steve Ahern examines the issues around disaggregating radio news content for delivery over smart speakers. How we connect to news...
12 April 2019 Thanks to smart speakers, audio documentaries are about to evolve to the next level. Newspapers are rapidly moving into...
1 April 2019 One of the highlights of Radiodays Europe is the first day’s Fast and Curious session, where participants move tables every...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...