Xiaomi also broke into the field of smart speakers. At the new conference on July 26th, Lei Jun introduced a new dual camera phone, the Xiaomi 5X, and also released a smart speaker with a price of only 299 yuan. To wake up this speaker, you need to shout out "Little Love".
From the outside, millet's AI speakers use an eccentric column shape, much like a miniature version of a millet air purifier.
There are four control buttons on the top and a set of microphone ring arrays. The light blue ring light used to display the wake-up and recognition status of the speech is also placed at the top.
Most smart speakers on the market use a columnar structure. Its advantage is that the internal space is large enough to output sound 360° out of the built-in speaker. And the microphone is not covered at the top, and it is far enough from the bottom source to minimize the interference from the bottom source to speech recognition.
This speaker is provided by Xiao Mi's exploration lab set up early last year to provide related technical support such as voice recognition.
The “Water Drop Projectâ€, an artificial intelligence platform for the Xiaomi Discovery Laboratory, was formally launched in May this year, and said that it is free to open up voice recognition and multiple API data interfaces to third-party developers. These interfaces can be used to connect the manufacturer's own home equipment or services to Xiaomi's platform.
Some functions currently supported by Xiaomi Voice Services
Including air purifiers, sweeping robots, smart lights, rice cookers rice cookers, small ant cameras, smart sockets, wall switches, etc., millet ecological chain has a variety of products access to the open water droplets platform.
Xiaomi is a smart speaker, and he wants to emphasize the use of speech to control smart home devices beyond the basic functions of listening to music.
The growing variety of Xiaomi's ecological chain is an important advantage in the future of Xiaomi's AI speakers. Millet speakers can be used to connect and control many of the Xiaomi ecological chain's equipment, but the premise is that you have to buy related products.
Because smart home products are not so popular, and each company's "ecology" is still not open in its own enclosure, so now smart speaker products, more is still only at the level of voice control speakers, whether millet, Ali "Tmall Elf", or Google Home, Amazon's Echo.
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