INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
study by Forrester Analytics' Consumer Technographics has found that more of us use smart assistants like Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant
on our smartphones instead of speakers like the Amazon Echo, Google Home, and Apple HomePod.The study also found that, even if you do use
the voice assistant built into your smart speaker, you're probably only asking it to carry out simple tasks.Having surveyed smart speaker
users in the US, Forrester found that "the most common task is checking the weather, at 65% of smart-speaker users, and the least-common,
potential control hub for all of your smart home devices, many of us aren't using them to their full potential.One reason for this could be
features and capabilities specific to that brand
bridge this gap a little, but there's still a disconnect between what our gadgets can do and what we're actually asking of them.Smart
displays like the Google Nest Hub Max (pictured) bring a screen to the smart speaker
(Image credit: Future)As Frank Gillett, Principal Analyst at Forrester points out, "complex tasks and interactions with brands, such
now, many of us are still understandably too worried about being misheard by our voice assistants in the middle of making an important
in our smart speakers, it's clear that the companies behind them could do more to educate us on how we can use them most effectively,
beyond cutesy adverts that don't actually explain how to use the mysterious obelisks that sit in our homes, waiting for commands that may
