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At Least Two Million Children Now Using Smart Speakers in the UK: Report (strategyanalytics.com)

Posted by msmash on from the growing-expansion dept.

Smart speakers like the Amazon Echo and Google Home are proving a big hit with Britain's kids, according to the latest survey from Strategy Analytics. The report adds: According to Smart Speaker User Survey -- UK Results, at least two million children are now using smart speakers in the UK, particularly for listening to music, searching for information and hearing jokes and funny stories.

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  1. Smart Speakers? by gerald.edward.butler · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You mean Big Brother monitoring devices that this generation is being conned into making an integral part of their lives. They already carry around a tracking device for everywhere they go and everyone they communicate with, now, they're getting used to having 24/7 audio monitoring within the walls of their own homes. They've tried a couple of times for 24/7 video monitoring too (XBox Kinect and now "Live" Cam). They'll get there eventually.

    I'm glad I only have a few years left on this world, it's going to be a terrible place to live for the coming generations. The only way to fix it is to have a major World War, wipe out 3/4 of the population, and re-boot civilization.

    What a terrible time we live in!

  2. Please Fix the title by schwit1 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    At Least Two Million Children in UK Now Under Audio Surveillance