Should we include our phones, tables and laptops and call them "mobile active audio monitoring devices" too? They all have microphones and cameras (not just one, but many have two) and we all carry them around in our pockets or on our wrists or even in our ears without much issue. They don't even hide the fact they have a microphone, the name of the device is literally a mobile micro-phone ("mobile phone", "smart phone"). Many phones also have a wake word (try yelling "hey siri" in a crowded place). So I really don't get the backlash around smart speakers. The main use of a smart speaker is to play music, not to record notes or make calls. And speaker-phone is already taken. I wouldn't put any evil marketing scheme to calling them smart speakers and not smart (micro) phones.
