2019 - Voice Assistant -A Search Engine Revolution

Ok Google, Hey Google, Alexa, Hi Siri, familiar Words right?

Revolution always changes the way traditional things work and so is the search engine traditional working.

Companies have changed the way things are done earlier. Searches become smarter and more elaborated and much more classified and so is the way of searching and doing things.

Voice Assistants are new search engine tools used by people for everyday searches. Not only searches Voice Assistants are capable of controlling appliances enable with IOT and they itself has some emotions controlling through Music and songs.

How It Started.

Radio Rex was the first voice activated toy released in 1911.

Another tools launched in 1961 was IBM Shoebox with speech recognition.

The first modern digital virtual assistant installed on a smartphone was Siri, which was introduced as a feature of the iPhone 4S on October 4, 2011.

And from there the voice search became a revolution.

Statistics

Satisfaction with voice technology and voice assistants was high in the survey.

According to comScore, 50 percent of all searches will be voice searches by 2020.

         

One of the most interesting areas of the survey was the desired functionality and future use cases. Before entering this field, here are the most important current uses of the voice (mainly on smartphones):

1. Directions while driving - 52%

2. Telephoning - 51%

3. Sending a text - 50%

4. Check the weather - 49%

5. Play music - 49%

6. General Searches on the Web - 48%

7. Setting alarms - 41%

8. Check the news - 27%

9. Sending an e-mail - 17%

10. Shopping - 16%

Digital experiences made possible by virtual assistants are among the recent major technological advances and the most promising consumer trends.

Virtual assistants can provide a variety of services. These included:

• Give information such as weather, facts, z. As Wikipedia or IMDb, set an alarm, create task lists and shopping lists

• Listen to music from streaming services like Spotify and Pandora. Play radio stations; Read audiobooks

• Play videos, TV shows, or movies on a TV. In streaming mode Netflix

• Conversational trading

• Facilitate public interaction with the government.

• Complete and / or replace customer service by personnel. A report estimated that an automated online assistant reduced the workload of a call centre for people by 30%.

Conversational commerce is understood to mean e-commerce through various messaging methods, including language assistants, but also live e-commerce websites, live e-mail applications such as WeChat, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, and chatbots on messaging applications or websites.

Voice Search Device Statistics

1. 70.6% of Americans who used at least one voice speaker used an Amazon echo from eMarketer.   

      23.8% used Google Home

 2. According to Microsoft's Purna Virji, voice search accounts for 25% of searches in the Windows 10 taskbar

3. The echo point was Amazon's best-selling product during the 2018 Christmas season of 

    Techcrunch.Amazon and Google account for 94% of all Smart Speaker used by Strategy       Analytics.

5. Google Assistant is now available on more than 400 million Google devices.

6. 82% of owners of Amazon Echo smart speakers subscribe to Amazon Prime via       

    geomarketing.

7. Although the Apple HomePod contains 99.4% of requests, only 52.3% answered 

    correctly, putting it behind Amazon Echo (64%), Google Home (81%), and Harman 

    Kardon Invoke (57%). %) in this regard from Loup Ventures.

Voice Commerce Statistics

1. Voice Commerce reported sales of $ 1.8 billion last year, according to OC & C Strategy Consultants. By 2022, they should reach $ 40 billion.

2. According to Edison Research, 22% of smart phone owners in the US have bought something with their devices.

3. 5% of consumers use the voicemail service, but according to MoffettNathanson, it could be 50% by 2022.

4. Food accounts for 20% of purchases by voice. This compared to clothing purchases, which accounted for only 8%.

5. 52% of voice-activated owners want to receive information about Google's offers, sales, and brand advertising. 39% want options to find business information.

6. One in five consumers (19%) have made a voice purchase through Amazon Echo or another digital home assistant, and another third (33 %) plan to do so in the next year, per Walker Sands.

The technology is constantly changing, but the voice search will continue. Optimize your typed search and voice search query content by writing your content as a conversation, providing clear answers, and creating content sections that meet immediate needs.

The voice search revolution has been catalysed by the rise of smart speakers. Though similar technologies have been around for years, in 2017, sales of smart speakers more than tripled thanks to the rise of both Google Home and Amazon Echo. Smart speakers are almost exclusively reliant on voice commands to operate, conditioning people to resolve their questions and accomplish tasks using voice-based queries.

Prepare for more changes in the near future. The most important thing you can do is prepare yourself for more changes down the road. We still don’t know exactly how a voice search revolution will manifest, so it pays to remain open to the many changes to come.