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U.S. consumer virtual assistant usage scenarios 2017

Situations where consumers in the United States would use virtual assistants as of April 2017

The data displays the results of a survey conducted in the U.S. in April 2017. U.S. residents were asked about how they would make use of their virtual assistant. At that time, 53% of respondents indicated that they would use their virtual assistant to play music or radio. Virtual digital assistants are software programs that take natural language commands or questions, either in written or spoken form, and attempt to carry out a task or provide an answer for the user.

Play music or radio	53
Receive weather forecasts	51
Receive search results e.g. from Google	50
Remind me of my personal appointments	43
Read out emails or messages	37
Receive traffic news	37
Operate devices within the house	32
Ordering goods	28
Receive sport results	27
Calling a taxi	19
Other	2

U.S. consumer virtual assistant usage scenarios 2017

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