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Future Speak

From offering verbal assistance to understanding human emotions, the smart speaker is evolving.

By 2022, personal devices, and not friends or family, will know more about an individual's emotional state just by analysing the tone of voice, according to research firm Gartner. So when you are in low spirits, you can expect your smart speaker to play an upbeat number to cheer you up, order for a tub of your favourite ice cream and make the lighting warm. Touched?

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