Amazon's rival Alexa voice assistant tech, embodied in the Amazon Echo in-home speaker, has long since opened up to outsiders, with the company announcing an API for developers a year ago and the first third-party apps arriving last August.
The idea for the glasses, which would be its first wearable, would be to do just that: Enable Alexa to be summoned from anywhere, vs the current situation where users are barking commands at static in-home speakers.
Bose has been a prominent player in the home speaker market for years.
You want these speakers to sound right for you, the only important listener in a home speaker system.
Google's streaming layer is now available in plenty of home theater and speaker hardware, as well as in its Google Home speaker.
Google Home launched in the market earlier this year, too, so now consumers have some variety in their smart home speaker options.
One other interesting piece in the research: a list of what consumers care about most in a smart home speaker.
In the crowded home speaker market, crowdfunding was a way for Mass Fidelity to confirm its innovations were enough to attract users.
For anyone that has an Amazon Echo or Google Home speaker in their place, that may not come as a huge surprise.
With seemingly everyone investing in an affordable smart home speaker, the question has probably crossed your mind: should I get the Amazon Echo Dot or the Google Home Mini?
And this is true nationally, among Latinos, in key states, in districts represented by once-moderate House Republicans who have changed their positions to support the Tea Party's agenda -- and even in House Speaker John Boehner's home district.
