Are smart speakers really smart? Huawei Sound X Smart Experience

In today's complex market, the major cell phone manufacturers are expanding their product lines to cover the field, in which the smart audio device is a part of the focus of each manufacturer. And smart speakers are also a very important part of it, whether it's a cell phone manufacturer or an established audio manufacturer, or even a software vendor are launching smart speakers, smart speakers are gradually integrated into our lives.

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What is a smart speaker?

What is a smart speaker? Simply put, these products have a more humanized control and function, and it is not just a speaker so simple, it subverts the concept of the traditional home speakers, can be connected to the wireless network, online music on demand, cell phone control, multi-room control and other functions combined to bring users a new entertainment experience. Not only listening to songs and smart home interface to open, to realize the integration of control with the smart home. There is also intelligent voice interaction control can set the alarm clock, listen to the news and other voice interaction.

Smart speakers let's put aside the speakers to see, this "smart" speakers in the end is not smart, in the daily life experience whether it can bring us convenience. A smart product, the need for continuous iteration to improve, until the future of a day completely intelligent. From the current point of view of the family environment is more suitable for the use of voice interaction, and as the control center of the smart home and exists.

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So is the current smart speaker smart? Users in the use of the biggest function is not "smart" but the speaker this function, many users buy back after the vast majority of just used to listen to the song more, of course, can also be entertained most of the time or as a speaker to use. In the smart speaker voice interaction experience in the most used is through the voice assistant to play music, audio resources listening, do a good job of a speaker to do. Of course, you can also preset some alarms, memos and other functions, but life O2O services really did not feel what convenience, just based on wikipedia to give you some answers, and do not feel intelligent.

As for the control of the smart home, the popularity of the current domestic smart home is not comprehensive enough, the smart home experience requires a complete set of home ecology, in the life of the home control, the need for various types of home appliances support, but too many brands of home appliances on the market, the smart speaker has a system of inconsistency, even if the unity of a brand in the control of the experience did not feel smart, so the control of the smart home experience is not in the smart, so the control of the smart home experience is not in the smart, but the smart home experience is not in the smart. The smart home experience did not really feel smart speakers in this aspect of the smart home experience.

The current smart speaker products are based on intelligent voice assistants, the beginning is mounted on the phone, after continuous iteration and update is more intelligent, but also not intelligent enough, just to enhance the human-machine interaction experience, a lot of users and then buy a cell phone will seldom use the intelligent voice assistant. The phone has become part of our daily life, accompanied by our time is certainly more than the smart speaker, then why do not we choose the phone's intelligent voice assistant to control the home, so it is not more convenient?

At present, the smart speaker to control the home is really convenient for our life, the current can only be said as an experience, but this is the trend of the future will certainly be able to, and now a lot of times by waking up the voice assistant, not as good as directly with the remote control to the convenient and fast, more direct operation of their own want to get the settings.

Huawei Sound X experience

Currently in the hands of this Huawei Sound X, as a smart speaker in our use in the past few days, the use of the most is to play music, in the simple set up of the speakers so that my favorite feature is the cell phone, a touch of the sound transmission function, when the cell phone is playing the Music just touch the speaker with your phone, the content being played can be put through Bluetooth to the speaker, to experience the sound of the audio most of the time is to use the phone a touch sound function to play music.

Huawei Sound X through the call "small art" to interact with the experience, which and the response speed is very fast, call the small art to play music perform some simple commands, and even control the home of the smart appliances and so on.

In the interactive experience with the voice assistant, each conversation with Xiaoyi will have a record, in the cell phone on the AI speaker app can be viewed, this feature is very practical.

Huawei Sound X some gadgets on the experience is still good, set the alarm clock, control the switch, the schedule of the reminder, the countdown garbage classification, etc. is still good, can be very accurate, but the intelligent words are still not enough. For example, in the call to the small arts query some of the events are only for you to broadcast some of the events based on the Baidu encyclopedia, and then for example, query today's hot news, you directly cut to a TV station, and will not be with the microblogging and other hotspots in real-time news updates.

In the smart home control experience, only to do a little switching lights, associated with the sweeping robot, connected to the air conditioning and other scenarios, for the control of these homes on the experience is still good, associated with the home after a simple to do some preset, it is very easy to call the small light, do not need to get up to turn off the lights, for the lazy person is simply a benefit. The control of the smart home or need to continue to optimize, improve the experience of using, and constantly do technical updates to do more intelligent.

Summary

Smart speakers in the future can become an important partner in our daily lives, through the smart speaker to control the smart home, here we have to talk about the smart home, so that the composition of our smart life. This is a huge set of system engineering, many of the current smart home is also just a single, not related, which caused the current situation, the future trend of the smart home should be cross-platform integration, to create more scenes of integration, to achieve the interconnection of the scenes.