[melling]

Amazon’s Echo is far ahead of Google Home in sales. They’re trying to get voice in everything. Many companies were showing off Alexa built into their products at CES.

Voice as a user interface is almost here:

https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2017/12/13/voice-as-a-user-inte...

How long before a significant amount of search is simply asking some device a question and being told the answer?

[zzzcpan]

> How long before a significant amount of search is simply asking some device a question and being told the answer?

Probably never. People read way faster than listen and in a productivity obsessed world this matters a lot. People also don't want others to hear what they are searching for. And these things are part of human nature, not something to get used to.

I can see people doing voice-typing on mobile when they are in private, because mobile is super awkward to type on. But that's about it.

[flokie]

It's already 20% and that stat is nearly a year old

https://searchengineland.com/google-reveals-20-percent-queri...

[tonfa]

Is Alexa launched for non US? European market is pretty big and needs support for non English languages (Google home is already launched in a bunch of European countries).

Similar to Apple with the iPhone, Amazon dominance on voice interfaces might end up being only true for the US market.

[seanmcdirmid]

Apple iPhone does really well in Asia. Not sure where you think dominance is only true for the USA.

[KirinDave]

It's a strange world, because in terms of functionality the echo is a toy compared to Home.