Smart speakers like Amazon.com Inc.’s Echo and Alphabet Inc.’s Home are exploding in popularity, and voice control is showing up in consumer products from toilets to dishwashers, a trend that could bode well for certain apps that users are interacting with through voice systems.

The proliferation of smart speakers reflects consumers’ growing acceptance of using voice commands. More than half those who have a voice assistant like the Amazon Echo or the Google Home use it daily, according to Adobe Analytics, which conducted a recent survey. Just 16% of those surveyed feel uncomfortable dictating commands while others are around, the firm said.

Smart assistants are poised to gain a larger presence in the home this year, as they become capable of taking on new skills. Sales of smart speakers alone jumped 237% in 2017, according to the Consumer Technology Association, and are expected to increase another 60% this year.

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“The popularity of voice devices is proving to be a first credible challenge to touch as the primary interface for consumer electronics,” Colin Morris, the director of Adobe Analytics Cloud, said in a statement.

Adobe ADBE, -1.42% research homed in on the specific services that consumers like to use through voice control, which gives a hint at the companies that could benefit from this type of interface. The survey found that music, requests for weather information, searching for information, requesting directions, setting reminders or alarms and shopping were the most popular uses for smart speakers.

People mainly use voice assistants to play music or check the weather, with roughly 60% of Adobe’s survey respondents saying they did each of those things. Interest in cuing up songs via speech commands could provide a boost to Pandora Media Inc. US:P, which is trying to regain its footing in the face of stiff streaming competition from Spotify, expected to go public via a direct listing soon, and Apple Inc.’s AAPL, -3.17% Apple Music.

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Pandora listening on voice-enabled devices increased 300% year-over-year, CEO Roger Lynch told MarketWatch at CES last week. The company said its platform is available on more than 2,000 consumer-electronics devices, but complained that Apple’s coming smart speaker will reportedly not support music services beyond its own Apple Music.

Apple, which is due to come out with its delayed HomePod speaker later this year, plans to use the device as yet another way to push its ecosystem of services. The company’s subscription music service, Apple Music, will get favored treatment on the HomePod and will be directly accessible via voice commands.

Meanwhile, use of smart speakers to check the weather could bode well for International Business Machines Corp. IBM, -1.72% , which acquired The Weather Company, operator of Weather.com, in 2015.

Shopping is another somewhat popular activity on smart speakers, with 22% of survey respondents saying they’ve bought items using voice commands. As the technology behind voice assistants gets better at surfacing relevant results, more shoppers may become comfortable making purchases they can’t see. This will escalate the battle that Amazon AMZN, -1.78% and Alphabet’s GOOGL, -2.41% GOOG, -2.37% are waging as they seek to promote their preferred shopping platforms on smart devices.