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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Voice wars : smart speakers, voice assistants, and strategies for building a successful voice ecosystem

Abstract

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In recent years, voice-powered digital assistants have exploded into the consumer mainstream as an important new form of human-computer interaction. Powered by dramatic improvements in speech recognition and artificial intelligence (Al) technologies over the last decade, digital voice assistants are now abundantly prevalent in modem consumer electronic devices ranging from mobile phones, to smart speakers, to wearables. As the technology matures and the availability of big data used by digital assistants proliferates, voice will soon become a primary modality by which people interact and accomplish tasks. Many of these tasks will be accomplished in consumer homes and digital voice assistants present a significant new opportunity where voice and the physical home intersect to dramatically reshape how consumers live in their home.

Degree

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Name thesis:degree_name
Master
Department dc:contributor.department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering and Management Program
Grantor dc:publisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Year dc:date.issued
2019

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Wang, Hans,S.M.Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Advisor dc:contributor.advisor
  • Michael A.M. Davies and Blade Kotelly.

Subjects

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Rights

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Statement dc:rights
  • MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.
Language dc:language.iso
eng

Identifiers

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Handle dc:identifier.uri
https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122259
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/122259

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2026-07-22
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citation

Wang, Hans,S.M.Massachusetts Institute of Technology.. Voice wars : smart speakers, voice assistants, and strategies for building a successful voice ecosystem. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/122259