AI speakers are an upgrade from traditional speakers, serving as a tool for consumers to access the internet via voice. Their primary functions focus on querying information, issuing alarms, and providing entertainment. They also offer features such as controlling smart home devices, making phone calls, and sending messages. Beyond entertainment, they can function as a central hub in the smart home. Specifically, they can perform tasks such as answering questions, checking the weather/news, navigation, adjusting volume, playing music/videos, shopping, location tracking, setting timers, providing reminders, and leaving messages through voice interaction. AI speakers are products of artificial intelligence, and their use is simple: interact via voice. Just speak what you want to do. For example, you can turn lights on/off, check the weather, or play music using voice commands.
AI speaker features:
1. Voice interaction experience
From the earliest Amazon Echo AI speaker, the powerful interaction based on the Alexa voice assistant has always been the core advantage of AI speakers.
Currently, domestically launched AI speakers have undergone more in-depth research in voice interaction, improving their understanding of natural language. Users can control AI speakers via voice, from basic voice-activated music playback to more complex online shopping; voice interaction is the core of AI speakers.
2. Audio resource playback
As a playback device, a speaker naturally needs content to support it. For AI speakers, the content is no longer just music, but includes all kinds of audio resources.
Taking JD.com's AI speaker as an example, through cooperation with Baidu Music, Koala FM, Himalaya FM, Dedao, Toutiao, Tencent, and others, more audio content has been built on the Dingdong AI speaker, allowing users to have more content to choose from and meeting their comprehensive content needs.
3. Smart Home Control
AI speakers have long been seen as the future of smart home control, and this is something that major manufacturers value highly.
Judging from the current development, AI speakers are already able to control basic smart home devices, just like a universal voice remote control that can control smart home devices such as lights, curtains, TVs, air conditioners, washing machines, and rice cookers.
However, these functions require the support of home appliances, so it will take a long time before AI speakers can become the control terminal in the home, given that smart home devices are not yet widespread.
4. O2O services for daily life
Lifestyle services are also a very important function of AI speakers. Through cooperation with third-party applications such as Alipay Koubei and Didi Chuxing, they can provide information such as nearby searches, restaurant promotions, traffic conditions, train schedules, air tickets, and hotels.
Leveraging its powerful e-commerce platform, users can shop via voice commands through the speaker, or access other types of O2O services through third-party applications. These include hailing rides, booking flights, finding restaurants, and tracking logistics, further simplifying people's lives without needing to open their phones.
5. Small household tools
Based on the home use scenario, some very practical gadgets have also been developed for AI speakers.
Some AI speakers have small tools such as calculators, unit converters, traffic restriction checks, horoscopes, and message machines, which are very useful in daily life. Moreover, compared to smartphones, which people use regularly, AI speakers are more convenient because they only require "voice commands".
Currently, AI speakers already have a wealth of functions, but for the AI speaker industry as a whole, AI speakers are still in their early stages. The most commonly used function is still listening to music, and other aspects need further improvement before they can be truly applied to daily life.
If you enjoy listening to audiobooks and music online, this is a great opportunity to choose an AI speaker with a built-in massive music library. It will change the way we listen to music and deliver a completely new experience, enriching your musical world.
