"Xiaodu Xiaodu, where can I buy Tesla's latest models in Shanghai?" "Xiaodu Xiaodu, what is the Dow Jones Index today?" "Xiaodu Xiaodu, help me with a lively music." "Xiaodu Xiaodu, tell me the latest entertainment news today."
At the DuerOS exhibition area of ​​CES Asia 2018, the Xiaodu smart speaker that was just released for 2 days became the most eye-catching focus of the audience. The same grand occasion was also staged on the e-commerce platform. The Xiaodu smart speaker with an early adopter price of 89 yuan was sold out instantly on the JD platform. Although in the context of the "Thousand Box War", uneven products have caused smart speakers to be complained of as pseudo-demand, but today, people are still willing to pay for excellent products.
In the final analysis, the price war is not the only factor for smart speakers from a geek trendy product to a mass plaything. When the competition in one dimension is extremely fierce, the market will naturally turn to the next dimension. Therefore, the small C-bit new voice debuts, not all relying on low prices. When smart speakers enter thousands of households around the world, the giants have already adjusted their course, waiting for smart speakers will be a "who is smarter" competition.
What are the criteria for smart speakers to be "smart"?
A "smart" smart speaker will undoubtedly pass the technical barrier first. To solve a series of technical problems from "far-field wake-up", speech recognition, speech-to-text, semantic understanding, to the final natural language generation and speech synthesis. Among them, the core technology competition, in terms of speech recognition and semantic understanding, almost directly determines the performance of smart speakers. In this regard, Baidu's speech recognition accuracy rate reached 97%, and has good support for dialect. And since the birth of search technology, Baidu has already started NLP-related research, which has injected core competitiveness into the "smart" of Xiaodu speakers.
At the CES scene, the Xiaodu smart speaker has become the most eye-catching C-bit because of its "smartness". At CES, Xiaodu smart speakers attracted countless fans as soon as they appeared. Audiences need to queue up to experience the "Baidu AI Little Master"'s uncompromising hardware, more advanced intelligent experience and rich and high-quality content skills.
In the end, smart speakers are a competition for manufacturers' AI strength
Of course, speech recognition and semantic understanding are just the first step to make speakers smarter. Behind a smart speaker that is capable of continuous self-learning and evolution, it must be supported by comprehensive strength including technology, talents, and ecology. In the "Thousand Box War", Baidu's smart speakers can become the smartest one, and it is inseparable from the early consolidation of the "foundation".
1. Understand people's words and answer the questions.
Most of the time, smart speakers can easily convert voices into text accurately, but they cannot understand the meaning. Once the question sentence becomes complicated and the sentence structure does not match the smart speaker's preset, smart speakers that are not "practised" enough, It is easy to misunderstand the instructions as keywords in search songs or search web pages. In other words, smart speakers still have a lot of room for improvement in semantic understanding and feedback.
At the Baidu World Conference in 2013, Baidu launched a feature called Accurate Questions and Answers for questions such as "Who is Nicholas Tse's son?" and "Whose son is Nicholas Tse?" , Using NPL techniques such as syntactic and semantic analysis and intention analysis. Combining the structured knowledge and semantic calculation in the knowledge base, the accurate answer is finally presented to the user. At that time, artificial intelligence was still a new term, and Baidu had already consolidated its "foundation" early.
At present, as the core department of Baidu AI technology research, Baidu Research Institute has five major laboratories, namely the North American Silicon Valley Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Beijing Deep Learning Laboratory, Beijing Big Data Laboratory, Business Intelligence Laboratory and Robot and Autonomous Driving Experiment room. Published more than 2500 artificial intelligence patents and authorized more than 500, including speech recognition, image recognition, natural language understanding, big data user portraits, intelligent driving, intelligent cloud computing, and man-machine interactive interactive operating system. The originality and leadership in artificial intelligence technology is the fundamental source of the competitiveness of all Baidu's intelligent hardware, and it is also the source of the confidence to create the "smartest smart speaker".
2. Know that you understand you and think what you think.
It is undeniable that artificial intelligence technology is not mature enough, at least far from the ability of Jarvis in "Iron Man". How to avoid users' three-minute popularity and really "fall in love" with a smart speaker? "Knowing you understand you, thinking what you think" or the current reasonable solution. This will not only test the ability of speech recognition and semantic comprehension, but also test the "Emotional Intelligence" of smart speakers.
What's interesting is that Xiaodu smart speakers apprentice Cai Kangyong at the press conference and began to learn the art of language.
Why is Cai Kangyong so popular? The key point is the speaking skills. Baidu seems to intend to create a DuerOS with both high IQ and EQ. For example, Xiaodu smart speakers have pioneered a child model in China, which can chat with children, guess idioms, tell stories, etc. These abilities are the side of IQ; use a child-friendly tone and Voice, clearly understand the child’s speech, even recognize the child’s emotions, and gradually improve the ability to understand, this is the side of emotional intelligence.
In fact, there is another embodiment of "Emotional Intelligence" on DuerOS. After manual pre-setting by the user, the Xiaodu smart speaker will automatically broadcast the day's weather, road conditions, travel restrictions and your schedule after the daily alarm reminder. Although there are still some gaps from the real "think what you think", for now, an important step has been taken.
3. People do not have me, people have me fine.
The emergence of every new thing, in the eyes of the developer, seems to be shaping a "Doraemon pocket", hoping to have inexhaustible functional services. Smart watches, smart routers, etc. have gone through this path, and now it is the turn of smart speakers on the cusp of the storm.
In addition to basic functions such as playing music, checking the weather, telling jokes, all kinds of smart speakers are also trying to give more skills, such as ordering takeaways, recharging calls, making calls, etc., although these functions are not the most needed and practical for users. , But these differentiated functions have become differentiated advantages as desired.
Still the same sentence, to be "smart and caring" for smart speakers, we should have others without me, and others with me. Taking into account the home use scenarios of smart speakers, Xiaodu smart speakers pioneered a child mode in China. The sound, content, and communication methods are all designed for children: special speech synthesis voices are created for children to communicate with zero distance; selected high-quality content and Fun and interesting children's skills; specially customized health and safety chat mode, low defect rate, and emotional analysis, optimized for specific scenarios. In addition, there is a "geek mode" with automatic radio within 8 seconds to achieve continuous dialogue.
4. Those who gain talents win the world
In terms of AI talent reserves, there is probably no domestic company that can match Baidu. The general manager of Baidu Smart Life Business Group is one of the creators of the well-known dialogue AI "XiaoIce". Today, the most scarce in the artificial intelligence industry is professional talents, and Baidu has built a luxurious lineup of AI talents based on excellent technical genes and years of talent accumulation, which can be said to be difficult for even foreign giants to match.
5. Baidu's AI ecology makes speakers evolve to "smart"
Behind the Xiaodu smart speaker is the DuerOS open platform. After a year of development, DuerOS now has more than 87 million active devices, more than 21.4 million monthly active devices, more than 200 partners, and 100 master devices equipped with DuerOS. There are more than 13,000 developers on the DuerOS platform. The meaning behind this long list of data is not just as simple as the industry leader. As we all know, deep learning is that the more frequent the interaction and the greater the amount of data, the smarter the system will be. Therefore, the intelligent voice ecosystem built by 200+ partners is the confidence to be small, better to use, better to hear, and more fun to experience. This is something that other families cannot learn and it is difficult to surpass it in a short time.
Baidu's integrated AI ecosystem has achieved the smartest, most user-knowledgeable, and most personalized smart home conversational AI technology. It is foreseeable that smart speakers are about to enter a new war, and only "smart" speakers can become the survivors of the next phase of war. "Smart" will become a bargaining chip in the next knockout stage of smart speakers, allowing speakers to gradually transition from a toy to a tool for artificial intelligence blessing.
Concluding remarks
When the "authority" of smart speakers returned to the hands of a few giants, it once again confirmed the fact that as the first product of artificial intelligence, smart speakers have become one of the battlefields of the giants' AI competition. The point lies in the appearance, channels and value of the product, but after all, it is the battle of AI capabilities.
In particular, the price of smart speakers has entered the era of less than one hundred yuan, the price war is about to end, hardware profits are gradually compressed, and the key to competition has gradually returned to the "smartness" of smart speakers. The new era of smart speakers is approaching.
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What are the characteristics/attributes of Bluetooth speakers?
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2. Bluetooth pairing makes listening to music more convenient;
3. Freely switch to answer mobile phone calls;
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