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Over ** percent of American smart speaker owners used their smart speakers daily to listen to a streaming music service as of January 2020. However, the use case which ranked second as ever tried by users was asking questions. ** percent of the respondents in the United States had used their device for this purpose, whereas listening to streaming music service was tried by **** percent more users. Among other popular use cases which were frequently performed by smart speakers were checking the weather, setting an alarm or a times and listening to the radio. Roughly one in **** Americans owned some type of smart speaker, regardless of the brand as of 2020.

Smart speakers global market

Forecasts show North America likely to be the second-largest smart speaker market in terms of shipments by 2020, taking up ** percent of the market. Greater China expected to make up the largest portion of the smart speaker market, accounting for nearly ** percent of the total shipments worldwide by the end of the year.

Smart speakers with personal intelligent assistant

A virtual personal assistant is a software agent performing tasks and services based on commands assigned by the user. Amazon has been the leading vendor of smart speakers with personal assistants in recent years, despite a noticeable decrease in the market share. As of the most recent quarterly data, Amazon accounted for around ** percent of the shipments and was closely followed by Google.