Voice Assistants: This Is What The Future Of Technology Looks Like

Inc. Echo Spot, from left, Echo, Echo Plus, and Fire TV devices sit on display during the company's product reveal launch event in downtown Seattle, Washington, U.S., on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017. According to a new report, Singapore is on the cusp of the voice technology revolution. Nearly half of the population has tried voice technology services such as Apple's Siri, Samsung's S Voice and Google Assistant, and a quarter of them use such services monthly. With Amazon entering the market this year, the potential for further uptake is high as more advanced products and applications hit the market. Voice technology has been with us for many years now – from automated voice recognition phone systems that failed to understand accents, to simple voice-to-text dictaphones that produced inaccurate copy – but the failings of these systems prevented widespread uptake.