The voice market battles have started to be strong

HC Security Network News in the era of things, speech recognition is regarded as one of the main entrance of human-computer interaction, in recent years, due to the rapid advances in machine learning, voice control has become more practical, allowing users to better interact with the device, At this point, voice interaction will become the standard technology of each smart device. Earlier, the Internet Queen’s "Internet Trends" report also mentioned that voice will be a new paradigm for human-computer interaction. Voice technology will liberate human hands and eyes. In the future, interactive modes with smart homes, wearable devices, robots, etc., voice will be the most The good machine interaction mode, a battle center around the competition for voice technology will be more intense.

The voice market battles have started to be strong

Amazon Alexa ubiquitously captures smart home entrances

An era of AI-based Internet of Everything is coming, and Amazon's artificial intelligence voice assistant Alexa is quickly bursting with anger. The voice control is the entrance to the industry. Although Amazon did not participate in the 2017 CES show, the compatible voice assistant Alexa products are everywhere. Let Amazon get out of the limelight.

Because Amazon's smart speaker Echo is equipped with Alexa in the United States, there are data showing that Echo sold more than 6.5 million units in 2016, so Amazon will also copy to the European market. It is based on the success of Echo, so many manufacturers enthusiastically embrace Alexa to seize the smart home entrance.

Echo is a speakerphone product launched by Amazon at the end of 2014. At that time, the industry did not look at this product, including Amazon's own hopes for the future of the product. Amazon's original intention is very simple, that is, users want to use Echo. Shop faster and more easily on the Amazon platform. However, due to the adoption of a more open strategy in voice recognition, the integration of more third-party resources, Echo products equipped with intelligent voice technology, the success in the field of smart home, can be said to be unintentional, and did not deliberate Rendering the ecosystem that creates the Internet of Things, but ultimately harvested many companies to participate in this ecosystem, embedded or integrated Amazon Alexa products.

GoogleHome challenges Amazon to control the family

Google is also an active distributor in the smart home field. Although the previous $3.2 billion acquisition of Nest is a chicken rib, the dream of smart home has been hit hard, but the exploration has never stopped. After the success of Amazon Echo, Google is not lonely, also last year. Launched a GoogleHome speaker device with smart voice technology to take on the dream of a smart home.

This is Google's most strategic product in the field of smart home, although this is a hardware product that focuses on music entertainment and voice search, but through the interaction of voice, and the combination of machine learning and artificial intelligence, GoogleHome has become For the smart home control center, it has become the control center of home equipment. It is a platform-level product that competes for controlling the family. It connects TV, audio, socket, lighting, air conditioner and other home devices, and realizes voice control of the whole home environment through GoogleHome.

Apple doesn't follow the trend of Siri, but also wants to read you.

Since the 2017 CES show, let Amazon's voice assistant Alexa out of the limelight, as Apple, who has been fighting for control of smart homes for many years, competes for smart home entrance with billions of devices and HomeKit platform, but will not go to Amazon, Google. In that way, to develop an independent Siri (smart voice) speaker, obviously, Apple's goal is far greater, and for the future Siri development is to create a ubiquitous artificial intelligence assistant.

As more and more devices and services will be embedded in AI technology, Yang Jianyong, who has long been concerned about the Internet of Things industry, pointed out that Siri is the most important piece of apple in deploying artificial intelligence. As a new generation of human-computer interaction technology, voice and image recognition enable the machine to understand you, and also let the machine read our world, and then execute more precise commands to provide services for human beings. It can be said that many IoT devices are inseparable from artificial Intelligent as the core of human-computer interaction.

In the context of the trend of all things, Apple is also improving its own voice and image recognition technology, and is also acquiring innovative companies in the field, including the acquisition of British voice technology VocalIQ many years ago, which helps to improve Siri. It also acquired Emotient, which uses artificial intelligence to analyze people's facial expressions to interpret their emotions. Perhaps Apple wants to understand the user's emotions and use facial recognition to interpret people's emotions and read you.

Recently, it has acquired an Israeli facial recognition company RealFace. According to foreign media reports, RealFace has mastered a special facial recognition technology, which combines artificial intelligence, and can make user authorization through facial recognition without making a face. Enter the password or fingerprint again, perhaps the next iPhone will include technology like RealFace to complement the existing TouchID fingerprint scanning authentication system.

Baidu established the secret business unit to join the human-computer interaction battle

In the field of artificial intelligence, Baidu is the earliest field of artificial intelligence in domestic Internet companies. It has a large number of elite talents in the AI ​​field. It is the cornerstone of Baidu's development of artificial intelligence technology. After years of layout, it is now with Google and Microsoft. And Facebook is tied to the world's four major artificial intelligence giants. Earlier this year, Dr. Lu Qi, a distinguished management talent with a reputation in the global technology industry, joined the company as the group's president and chief operating officer. He became the second person of Baidu. In the artificial intelligence technology, he will join Lu Qi. Will push a new height.

After taking office, Lu Qi completed his first acquisition in Baidu, which is the wholly-owned acquisition of Raven Technology. Its founder, Lu Wei, and his team will also join Baidu and become the general manager of Baidu Smart Home Hardware. It seems that this is a positive step for Baidu to explore artificial intelligence business. After all, AI application landing is widespread in the industry, and unmanned driving is still far away. So many manufacturers are aiming at the intelligent hardware field, allowing artificial intelligence to be embedded in each Go in the smart device.

In his earlier internal speech, Baidu Li Yanhong mentioned that the combination of soft and hard artificial intelligence products will be a new direction, and the combination of AI and new hardware has created new opportunities. Lu Qi said in an internal mail that this time, after joining Lu Wei, it is very important to establish the leading edge of Baidu's intelligent interactive platform and to build the core competitiveness of software and hardware integration.

At the same time, it also announced that the original secret team has been upgraded to the Secret Division. Lu Qi claims that with the advantages of voice and dialogue technology, Baidu has a huge opportunity to lead a new generation of human-computer interaction platforms, natural language and other intelligent interactions. The way it can appear in every device from the phone to the home. In order to seize this opportunity, Baidu decided to set up a secret business division to accelerate Baidu's artificial intelligence strategic layout and artificial intelligence productization and marketization process.

Artificial intelligence is the core of Baidu's core strategy. With the rise of artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things will become a huge market. Baidu also said that it will accelerate the layout in the smart home field and even push smart speakers around smart speakers. Create smart homes and work with third-party vendors to achieve security in security, lighting and curtains. After joining Lu Wei, he will be responsible for Baidu's intelligent hardware business, and will cooperate with him to create the product with the ultimate innovative experience. The external output of Acceleration OS will help Baidu's artificial intelligence ecosystem.

Baidu hopes to use voice to drive this new era of Internet of Things. In the era of Internet of Everything, Baidu mainly uses artificial intelligence, big data, image recognition and intelligent voice as breakthroughs. Especially in the new human-computer interaction mode, Baidu owns images and voices. The core entrance is at the forefront, making the Internet of Things a reality.

Keda Xunfei: Creating an ecological chain with voice as the entrance

As a domestic intelligent voice leader, Keda Xunfei has been deeply involved in the field of intelligent voice and artificial intelligence for many years. It is a leading enterprise in China's intelligent voice and artificial intelligence. Its Xunfei open platform is the world's largest intelligent interactive technology service platform for development. Create a one-stop smart human-computer interaction solution.

In the open platform of Xunfei, we learned that the open platform uses the “cloud+end” speech recognition and speech synthesis service. It only needs a few lines of code to integrate the SDK to enable the application to have intelligent interaction ability, release hands and open intelligent interaction. Currently used in many fields, including smart TV, wearable devices, smart car and robotics, it also provides intelligent voice interactive services for more than 60,000 apps.

Thanks to the arrival of the artificial intelligence wave, Keda Xunfei has been quickly recognized by artificial intelligence and speech recognition, and is at the forefront of this era. Voice and artificial intelligence are the labels of Keda Xunfei. As an important entry point for the layout of artificial intelligence, voices show that Keda Xunfei has more than 70% market share in the Chinese voice technology market, has 200,000 developers, and provides voice and artificial intelligence interactive services for 890 million end users. , Science and Technology News is also building an ecological chain around the voice as the entrance.

Intelligent voice as the entrance, leading the Internet of Things to open a new mode of human-computer interaction

Wu Enda, Baidu's chief scientist, believes that speech recognition can change the way people interact with devices, which will be a subversive change. With the success of Amazon's voice assistant Alexa and Google's release of GoogleHome products for home entrance, it is possible to control the family. In recent years, deep learning has achieved amazing success in speech recognition and image recognition, and as a focus on intelligent voice interaction technology. For Symo, it is hoped that in the era of the Internet of Everything, human interaction is more useful and interesting.

Lenovo Group also launched smart speaker products in early 2017, of which the overseas version is equipped with Alexa platform, but the domestic version uses the voice interaction technology with Spirent. Xiaomi launched the Internet speaker with voice interactive function last year, and also adopted the Spirit voice technology, including Sony, Cool Dog and other enterprises have launched smart speaker products, have started the battle of smart home control.

It can be said that intelligent voice promotes the development of the Internet of Things industry, and voice will become one of the human-computer interaction methods in the Internet of Things era. In the Internet Trends report by Internet Queen Mary Mickel, talking about voice will be human-computer interaction. The new paradigm, reshaping the human-machine interface is obviously very important, and voice technology is particularly important. But the core lies in natural language recognition and processing technology. If the speech recognition accuracy rate rises from 95% to 99%, voice interaction will quickly spread and even change the existing game rules.

Editor in charge: Li Jin