During this past year, we've seen significant shifts on where and how people are consuming information. One of the most important ones is the rise of voice interfaces and voice platforms like Alexa.

Thanks to Amazon's Alexa, voice controlled devices and voice-only applications are becoming more and more ubiquitous.

At first, these intelligent assistants only lived in our phones. It took a while to get people to use them but used they were.

Every single major technology company is developing their voice-enabled personal assistant. From Microsoft's Cortana, Googles's Google Assistant, Apple's Siri, Yandex's Alice to Baidu's Duer.

Going beyond the smartphone

But usage on the phone was still limited. Voice commands are useful under certain circumstances. As what happened with the infamous famous Google Glasses, voice interfaces make the most sense when your hands aren't free.