January 09, 2025

Smart speakers optimize product experience through AI and hardware expansion

Combining AI artificial intelligence analysis with smart speakers for various smart home application scenarios, we handed in a good transcript in 2017-18. Canalys released the smart speaker market analysis forecast in October 2017, indicating that smart speakers will be shipped globally by the end of 2018. The volume will reach 56.3 million, and the competition for related products will become more intense...

Smart speakers optimize product experience through AI and hardware expansion

Google released the Voice Kit (AIY-Projects) that supports Raspberry Pi, which will include the Google Assistant SDK and the development of voice-based smart services. Google

Smart speakers optimize product experience through AI and hardware expansion

Amazon launched the Echo Show with a screen, in addition to voice commands to access e-commerce services, with video calls, audio and video recipes and other value-added features. Amazon

Since the introduction of Echo's intelligent voice service from Amazon and the series of Smart Speakers, providing users with voice-added e-commerce service value-added applications, Apple also launched its own smart speakers, by combining the original smartphone ecosystem. The exclusive Siri Smart Voice Assistant service, through the interface of smart speakers, allows Apple's intelligent service ecosystem to more easily enter the home application scenario.

2017 smart speaker products develop fast

From the active investment of e-commerce and smart products world manufacturers, the large and small brands in 2017 have also launched smart speaker products with integrated AI artificial intelligence. Not only do smart speakers realize and design methods are diverse, but the imported AI artificial intelligence corresponds to different application mechanisms. The value-added applications provided by the ancillary services are also different. Even in CES 2018, there will be a smart speaker battle scene after the smart phone. In addition to the competitive IT vendors and network service vendors, different core technologies and applications. There will also be a huge gap between the integration conditions and practical value of the scene ecosystem.

From the scale of smart speakers, the global smart speaker shipments reached 30 million units in 2017. In 2018, more marketing resources were invested in the big factories, and more medium/large players participated in the new products competition. In 2018, it will be The most important development opportunity of smart speakers is not only to compete with the "smart" integration advantages of various factories, but also to compete with smart speakers for various application scenarios and resources of massive value-added content. As for hardware, intelligent systems, ecosystems, etc. The technology-oriented and resource-oriented forces also make this smart speaker war more worthy of continuous attention.

Smart speaker industry chain is maturing

First check the smart speaker market from the perspective of the industry chain. If you use the smart speaker outbreak in 2017 to do a key review, you will find that the products before 2017 are still in the AI ​​smart service module still need to be verified and upgraded, the key system chip solution Still not perfect, the market still needs in-depth education, etc., and observing the industrial status after 2017, we will find that the intelligent chip's key chip, voice recognition/face recognition and other AI modules have gradually reached the substantive level of product application. , user experience, key chips, integration technology maturity, etc., the various industry links have become increasingly mature, the key to product success or failure will be in the application scenarios set by different smart speakers, and the pain points of users to be solved.

In fact, in 2017, the introduction of smart speaker applications will still encounter several large non-technical barriers to be broken. First, the system integration of smart speakers is not perfect, and it still takes time to polish the chip yield and service integration.

In addition, the human-computer interaction experience based on a large number of voice, recognition and decision-making has not been perfected, and users still need to familiarize themselves with a new generation of products for a period of time, resulting in limited recognition of smart speakers in the market and high market development costs. However, in 2017-18, large-scale network/cloud service providers and intelligent hardware developers have rushed into the smart speaker market. More than 10 speaker products have been introduced in combination with smart applications. At the CES and other exhibitions, it has become a smart future. The new trend of products.

Independent products with limited functions are not easy to survive. The application scenario is the winning field.

First review the development of smart speakers in 2017. Most of them are still independent products. The manufacturers integrate their own multi-network intelligent applications, such as streaming music, streaming video, and network information services.

As large network operators and hardware vendors join the smart speaker battlefield, smart speakers have greatly expanded their competition thresholds in "smart" applications, such as integrated array anti-noise microphones, such as AI voice recognition, AI application scene analysis and automation applications. Even Apple, Google, Amazon's large hardware, and network service providers have launched smart speaker products that link their own enterprise resources and advantages. Industry observations have suggested that in 2018, it is highly likely that competition will be heated up in large-scale industries, and subsidies, promotions, or More advanced smart applications create smarter speakers for greater market growth.

With the participation of large-scale players to participate in the competition, it is clear that the smart speakers that have been introduced in 2017-18 have gradually matured in product performance and applications. For example, large Internet service providers such as Baidu, JD, Alibaba, etc., with home appliances or 3C Hardware manufacturers such as Haier, Lenovo, and Xiaomi have joined the battle.

International home appliance manufacturers such as Sony, audio equipment manufacturer sonos and other hardware manufacturers, also launched their own smart speakers; and from the smart hardware end of the Rokid, go out to ask a new generation of smart speakers to grab the market, and even online content network service provider Himalayan also Launched its own brand of smart speakers.

Intelligent design challenges for smart speakers are becoming more demanding

After the speaker is intelligent, the scenes that can be used are quite diverse. The early smart speakers are designed to work together with the speakers through smart phones, such as smart devices connected via Bluetooth or other network interfaces, and the mobile phone-side App controls the speakers for multimedia playback or Advanced smart application. However, the initial product experience is too close to the Bluetooth speaker, and the degree of intelligence is also relatively limited due to cost constraints. The integrated speaker function is limited in practicality.

The new generation of smart speaker products are oriented towards independent intelligent operation, and extend the advanced applications such as AI voice recognition, smart home appliance control, online streaming program/music playback through self-system networking, and even achieve human-computer interaction such as real-life response. The experience is a new product that the smart speaker has been greatly upgraded in terms of system, intelligence and hardware.

Basically, the recent smart speaker products will mainly be integrated by three aspects, one is hardware optimization and integration, such as array microphone pickup and noise reduction technology that affects voice quality, and sound quality structure optimization design of small volume speaker. Solution, embedded system/hardware integrated with intelligent computing hub.

Intelligent integration in software or network server, such as Apple's Siri voice assistant, Google Assistant, Amazon alexa voice recognition, Baidu Ai's advanced integration in smart speaker products and cloud services; finally, various integrated application scenarios Value-added applications, for example, voice combined with EC services, voice control songs/song songs, voice network service calls/queries, etc., are especially important for service optimization in different application scenarios.

Intelligent speaker man-machine interface design is the key to the control experience

Especially in the development of human-machine interface, in terms of the experience of smart speakers, it is more important to determine whether smart speakers can expand the application market. Because the size of the smart speakers is mostly small, the design of the screen is small or even without the design of the screen, and the limited size of the hardware control buttons is limited, and the human-machine interface of the new generation of voice interaction becomes an important operation mechanism of the smart speaker.

Such as Xiaomi's little love classmates, Apple's Siri, Amazon's alexa, etc., affecting the hardware product running experience, in addition to the stability of the hardware itself, when the terminal user can operate smoothly through voice commands or other human-machine interfaces, Directly judged the practical value of smart speakers.

Another development of smart speakers is the introduction of the screen design. Most cost-independent products do not set the display, but the screenless user experience will be because the user does not understand the system feedback returned by the "smart" analysis or Voice feedback often reduces the efficiency of the operating device and affects the smooth operation of the device because of the voice dialogue command.

Setting the display screen is the easiest way to improve the user experience, even by setting a larger screen, giving the smart speaker more possibilities to expand the application. For example, Amazon Echo Show or Baidu's small-scale smart speaker products at home, because of the large screen, expands the remote video communication function of the smart speaker, or the new tool for finding audio and video recipes and finding online movies.

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