Speakers are a new opportunity for smart hardware?

Absrtact: February 21 This year, I sent such a text status in the circle of micro-trust friends. Who can use the Internet thinking to transform the family bathroom, every time to go into a loudspeaker is very troublesome, and cut a song, and then a temporary phone call is simply anti-human. A few months.

This February 21 this year, I sent such a text status in the circle of micro-trust friends. "Who can use the Internet thinking to transform the family bathroom, every time to go into a loudspeaker is very troublesome, and cut a song, and then a temporary phone call is simply anti-human." "A few months have passed, and I haven't seen the smart home bathroom for a while, but the voice-controlled smart speakers are here."

A small Tony speaker is a project that has just come online for a roll call, and you can interpret it as a WiFi speaker running the Android system. Since the boundaries with the traditional speakers, it will be different from the usual features of the product features, which attracts me most of the two points.

The first is the Voice control music, which I am most interested in. Just think, through the voice can control the music play and switch, this "listen" music way in a specific occasion (such as bath bathroom, lying in bed before bedtime bedroom) is actually quite practical. If you think about it, you will find that the scene suitable for the work of small wisdom in fact all need to have music company, but it is not suitable for the phone to light up the screen and then operate. That means it shortens the time I need to play and switch music through voice control.

The second is the Voice control appliance, which sounds sci-fi. Just enter the house, as long as a shout "help me turn on the light + open air-conditioning + TV + Close the curtains", all the traditional home appliances began to start their own. But this is a bit far away, small wisdom is only open the interface, when access to third-party intelligent devices, only through voice control appliances, realize linkage. However, they are now working with smart hardware such as Euribo and the Dream Future robot dog, and will bring in other devices.

In addition, the small Tony-level speakers also have similar to Siri's artificial intelligence interaction. And and every day to work together to ensure that the number of music clouds.

While talking about the product with founder Frederick, he showed me at the scene of small wisdom voice control music function, may be due to network reasons, recognition speed slightly slower, he stood 1 meters away from the product and 3 meters to me for a number of demonstrations, the result is generally very high success rate.

But at present, the small wisdom in the software is not perfect, for example, I can pass: "Small Wisdom, sing a song" Let It randomly play music, you can also name the song and the singer's form play the designated music. But for the fans of European and American music and the fans of the world famous songs, this function is still not able to help you for the time being.

For example, I'd like to hear Hans Zimmer's soundtrack in the movie Inception time, or you just finished watching Alfonso Cuarón's latest movie gravity, and felt that the English composer Steven Price's soundtrack was so cool that he wanted to start appreciating it now. That's embarrassing, even if every day the music library has these songs, even if your English pronunciation standards, the current small wisdom can not directly for you to play. But Mr Frederick told 36 Krypton that it would be possible to upgrade the system in little wisdom every two weeks, adding some feedback from users and revising the questions they raised.

From last March, the product was formally established, the second edition of this July will be trial-run, and Mr Ho believes that the speakers will be a new opportunity in the hardware, even if the traditional speakers in the sound quality and brand has an almost untouchable status, but they are not good at intelligent control. He firmly believes that the speaker from the traditional "migration" to the intelligent, entrepreneurial opportunities.

In my hands-on experience of this product, although the current prototype in the appearance and texture is still passable, but the accuracy of speech recognition is not bad. After all, maybe I need a speaker that can take it to the bathroom without the need for smartphone intervention and WiFi connection.

Small Tony-class speakers are being named time, the end of August will start mass production, early September shipments. Interested friends may wish to have a look.