Top Voice News of First Half of 2019 with Ben Fox Rubin, Pete Erickson, and Eric Schwartz - Voicebot Podcast Ep 104

The first half of 2019 started with data around big growth
numbers for smart speakers over the previous year, Amazon saying
there were more than 100 million Alexa enabled devices, followed
within a week by Google announcing there were over 1 billion
devices with Google Assistant. That was followed by a lot of
voice assistant news across multiple devices ranging from patio
umbrellas to motorcycle helmets from the U.S. and China at CES.
As the year progressed many more stories followed about on-device
performance, new voice assistant features, new enterprise
applications, and notably, issues and news items focused on
privacy and security. Joining me today are Pete Erickson of
Modev, Ben Fox Rubin of CNET, and Eric Schwartz of Voicebot.ai.
They share their thoughts on the news that was most noteworthy
thus far in 2019.