25 Million More Voice Assistants Coming This Year; Amazon, Google Dominate

Voice assistants are coming in a big way this year.

Last year, 7 million voice-first devices, most notably Amazon Echo and Google Home, hit the market. That was up from only 2 million the year before.

This year, 25 million devices will be shipped, bringing the total number of voice-first …

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Juli Schatz from Image Grille, January 24, 2017 at 11:09 a.m.
The writer needs an editor. This is as far as I got; when there are two errors in one paragraph, the credibility of the author is pretty much eroded and I don't read any further.

",,,7 million voice-first devices, most notably Amazon Echo and Google Home, hit the market. That was up from only 2 million..."
Numbers are spelled out from one to nine.

"One of the major prediction(S) in the study is that one or more company(IES) will enable direct person-to-person communication."

"...voice assistant communication as like (similar to) a modern version..."

"...from thousands of consumers conducted through..."- needs a comma after consumers, otherwise you're saying the consumers were conducted.

"Voice is becoming the major interface for all things Iot related." translates to "...all things internet of things related."

"...also seem to have something (in) common with mobile apps. When a person starts using a new voice application, there’s only a 3% (three percent) chance..."

No, I don't have anything better to do right now. Sorry, but grammatical errors (especially this many in one fairly short article), as I noted above, diminish the creditibility of the writer to the point where you cannot trust even the information provided.
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