A domestic smart speaker practitioner revealed the bottom: "At present, the production and sales of domestic smart speakers are still fluctuating between thousands and tens of thousands, Jingdong Ding Dong is the best seller, but the actual number is still far less than Echo. The largest number is still a lot of small manufacturers of poor smart speaker products, where two out of 10 sentences of the product respond well."

 

In the two years since its official release in November 2014, Amazon's Echo smart speaker has become one of the hottest smart home products on the market, allowing people to control appliances, buy goods and inquire by voice. About 36 million people in the United States use voice-activated speakers once a month, and that number is growing, according to eMarketer, a research firm.

 

The product needs constant iteration and improvement to ensure stable network connection; For example, a beautiful sound box needs to be repeatedly run in appearance design; Another example is that the voice interaction needs good sound reception effect, and the speaker itself will make a sound. When the smart speaker is awakened in the far field, the speaker itself needs to be eliminated. Even the vibration at high volume can affect the reception, so the distance between the chamber and the microphone needs to be taken into account.

The "fragmentation" problem with the smart speaker market: What looks like a simple smart speaker is actually a technical challenge for everyday voice interaction. These are the same challenges that have slowed the development of China's intelligent voice market, and one of the biggest problems is machines' understanding of Chinese, or NLP as it's known.