The Top Stories in Voice 2019 - Voicebot.ai

The announced collaboration between Apple, Amazon, Google and the Zigbee Alliance around establishing new internet protocol (IP) based smart home standards was far-and-away the top-cited story with a weighted average 15% ahead of the second-place story and 34% ahead of the average. The performance of the smart home collaboration could be benefitting from the recency effect, but we see the second story was from September, the third from July, the fourth from January, and the fifth from March. So, the readers of Voicebot have spread their top 5 stories broadly throughout the year. Amazon and Google related stories dominated the list with eight of the top 10 referring directly to one of the two companies or specific to smart speakers. The exceptions were the third top story which was focused on startup funding in the voice industry and the ninth that was about voice assistants in general.