Voice technology makes speakers into a smart hub?

Li Xuanfong is a hardware inventor of the early subscription reader (public Id:newhard), recently bubbled up to see me chat, originally a diving intelligent hardware entrepreneur.

So, at five crossing to see Li Xuanfong and his partner, Mr Frederick, chatting up their entrepreneurial project small intelligence Bluetooth speaker. Forget to say, this is the two-bit 85 smart hardware entrepreneur, the first to start in 2011, that will graduate soon.

Li Xuanfong is a master of environmental engineering, and Mr Frederick is an undergraduate computer, master of materials information, and quit school to start a business; in the research of gene sequencing, the part of artificial intelligence is involved, which makes the speech intelligence after learning and subsequent.

But the start of the start-up project and smart hardware is not a big relationship, but based on voice search app Smart 360, similar to flying language points, that is, the early voice assistant, and gained 3 million dollars in the Gobi Desert early investment.

Recently I learned a lot about audio equipment, especially portable speakers of intelligent hardware products, really innovative not much, so see Li Xuanfong pulled out a pyramid-like portable speakers, some disdain.

The key point of this product is that the portable speakers are connected via WiFi, allowing the user to interact directly with the voice, such as playing a song, a singer's song, and so on. It utilizes the semantic recognition technique accumulated before the application.

In front of each is a big thousands of yuan to do the first version of the prototype, process and material can only look at the moment, the main control area at the top of the panel, the middle button is played, heart-shaped and the Trash can touch buttons are marked and deleted, this design and watercress Radio app logic similar to, by selecting and deleting, let the device remember your preferences.

Such a device can imagine the space is, on the one hand, let the music play intelligent, on the other hand with the integration of the unified WiFi protocol smart Home Products linkage, such as they have joined the Broadlink agreement, so that can complete the voice of the switch, television and so on control, this vision is still perfect.

But when I looked at this product with tinted glasses, I found some rough spots that should be perfected, such as:

1, although there is a 3.5mm interface, but does not support audio input, but only support audio output, such as external speakers.

2, although it is a "portable" speaker, but get out of the basic can not be used, because there must be WiFi to do so, fully able to join the support of Bluetooth.

Still, Li Xuanfong and his start-up partners to complete the transition from the app to the hardware, perhaps this product is not a huge sales of products, but from the form, there is a bright spot, especially based on voice control at the same time to open intelligent Home platform access.

This small intelligence speaker has also been in the start of the roll call, the first day to raise more than 27,000 yuan, in the domestic public environment, this achievement has passed.