Smart Home Will See Voice Control Hit Full Potential, ABI Says
Siri and Google Now voice controls launched as smartphone interfaces, but the smart home is where voice control will reach its full potential, said ABI Research in a Monday news release. Smart TVs, refrigerators and plugs are among the devices…
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that will extend the reach of the smart home and bring simplicity to managing the smart home by voice, it said. ABI forecasts more than 120 million voice-enabled devices will ship annually by 2021, and voice control -- combining speech recognition with natural language processing -- is becoming the “key user interface” in the smart home. Amazon’s Alexa, leading the pack of voice engines, is creating “new competition" and demand for wireless speaker manufacturers and other vendors to include voice capabilities in their devices, said analyst Jonathan Collins. But scaling voice control capability brings complexity, Collins said. “Vendors will need to evaluate how and when to bring voice control into smart home devices in order to best tackle adding the service into wider smart home systems,” he said.