Techstination, your destination for gadgets and gear.  I’m Fred Fishkin.  More and more of us are buying smart home technology….whether it is smart speakers,  or home and safety monitoring equipment and that will help to push U.S. consumer technology sales this year past the four hundred billion dollar mark.  That’s according to the Consumer Technology Association, or CTA, where Rick Kowalski is Senior Manager of Industry Analysis.  He says consumer enthusiasm for smart speakers has not been dampened by reports about devices listening in and saving audio…

“No I don’t think so, I think people understand that a lot of the analysis that companies are doing for digital assistants are to help improve the natural language processing skills and to help it become a little more natural at what it does.”

For more on the latest sales projections…check out www.cta.tech.

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