At CES, New Digital Assistants Restart Smart Home Race
Voice AI could reach 40 million homes by 2021. For now, Amazon is king.
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For years, the biggest names in tech crammed the Consumer Electronics Show floor with fridges, light switches and microwave ovens to preview a futuristic world where you could control every appliance in the home with your voice.
But most of these products, bogged down by glitchy software and hard-to-navigate interfaces, failed to go mainstream.