OFweek smart home network news: The recently concluded China Home Appliances and Consumer Electronics Show (AWE2017) and the beginning of the year at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show (CES), voice interaction has become a hot spot. But this time, the difference is that instead of Amazon’s Alexa voice service abroad, it’s taking the limelight, but the voice technology of domestic companies is attracting attention, such as Baidu’s DuerOS, Goer’s microphone pickup technology and smart speaker platform.
Let's take a look at the use of DuerOS in smart homes. The definition of DuerOS in Baidu Encyclopedia is:
As an open operating system, DuerOS emphasizes the interaction of voice dialogue through natural language. At the same time, using the brain of the cloud, you can learn to evolve and become smarter. Currently, DuerOS has more than 70 categories and more than 70 capabilities. It can empower partners in different industries. It supports a wide range of hardware devices such as mobile phones, TVs, speakers, automobiles, and robots, and implements voice control, daily chat, and direct delivery. This intelligent transformation of O2O services has been called "an epoch-making dialogue-type artificial intelligence operating system" by domestic and foreign counterparts.
In simple terms, DuerOS provided by Baidu is an intelligent life steward who interacts with voice. Practical applications include refrigerators that cooperate with Haier, voice boxes for cooperation with Midea, and robots for small fish at home.
The current smart refrigerators mainly increase the WIFI networking capabilities, can be remotely controlled by mobile phone APPs, and some have added a screen for shopping and listening to music, which in general is not enough practicality. If you add voice capabilities, combined with the internal smart camera, you can free your hands, through the voice dialogue to understand the situation of the ingredients, according to the voice recipes cooking, purchase of ingredients, control of music playback, practicality can be significantly improved.
The beautiful smart voice box, much like Amazon’s Dot, can play music, listen to radio stations, query encyclopedia knowledge, stocks, and adjust the volume in addition to querying the weather. It also cooperates with Tencent QQ and can make voice messages via QQ. Also supports Bluetooth mode and home appliance mode, respectively, can be used as a Bluetooth speaker and home appliance controller. The crowdfunding price on Jingdong is 299 yuan. In general, it is a practical and cost-effective product.
The robotic fish at home is mainly focused on video calls, with screens and cameras, and of course, DuerOS offers various services such as singing, storytelling, and video recording. It can also answer questions such as weather, routes, and recipes. In addition to the price of more than two thousand is not very close to the people, to the elderly and children is still very good.
Combined with the above application cases and the success of Amazon Echo speakers, we can see that voice interaction has become a trend in the smart home field. The main interactive mode of APP as the first generation of smart devices will exist for a long time, but after one or two years, voice interaction is likely to become the main way for users to use smart devices, and APP will relegate to second place. After all, voice communication is a natural interaction method that humans have long learned, and speech recognition related technology also approaches the accuracy of human recognition.
Recently, Xiaomi released new millet TV 4A, 4A is also the world's first artificial intelligence voice TV released by Xiaomi, only one voice button can be achieved keyword search, hot ranking, open application games, query weather calendar, multiple rounds of dialogue, control There are 10 types of voice interactive functions such as TV, movie titles, star search, movie and television encyclopedia, and intelligent error correction. The main function is to make the elderly and children use them conveniently and achieve the “zero threshold†for smart TV use.
However, after the conference, a voice technology provider went out and asked why Xiaomi did not mention the question at the conference and had a dispute with Xiaomi (bi), threatening to stop the service to Xiaomi, while Xiaomi also Sogou’s voice technology was also used, not afraid of threats. This shows that the competition of voice service providers is also very fierce.
For domestic small and medium home appliance manufacturers, if they want to upgrade their voice interactive products, they generally do not need to directly connect with voice technology providers. A better way is to connect one-stop smart solution providers. Among them, Shenzhen Cool House Technology Co., Ltd. is relatively prominent. Their smart home APP, Yi Wei Lian, has been widely used by more than 200 manufacturers and hundreds of thousands of users. It is also one of the earliest companies that have implemented Amazon echo support in China. All E-Link support products can be controlled by echo.
At the same time, the E-micro-platform platform has also opened up platforms such as Google Home and HomeKit. As long as the manufacturers access the E-micro-Link platform, they can seamlessly connect with multiple large-scale intelligent voice platforms. Compared with their own one platform to do docking, they can save energy. More time and R&D investment.
Finally, from the perspective of AWE2017, voice interaction will form a wave in the smart home sector. It is hoped that small and medium home appliance manufacturers can seize this opportunity to bring smart products that are really easy to use for consumers.
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