Start the smart home voice interaction entry scramble
OFweek smart home network news "Tmall Elf, please charge my mobile phone 100 yuan bills." "Yes, have recharged for you."
"Tmall Elf, please help me buy a box of Coke." "According to your purchase history, 330ml of Coke has been selected for you. Would you please send it to your default address?"
"Tyro cat, I'm home." Immediately, the air conditioner in the home began to blow out, and the humidifier nozzle began to appear water mist.
Losing the mouse and remote control, only relying on voice can convey instructions, complete shopping, control appliances, these seemingly unrealistic dreams, with Alibaba's similar "Sesame door" spell, has opened up for us to the future The door to smart life. On July 5, the “Tmall Elf X1†was released. With the live demonstration, the reporters could not sit still. "How much is the price" and "where can I buy it?" reporters asked in groups.
It is not only Alibaba who tries to open this door full of temptations.
With Amazon Echo, Apple HomePod and other smart speakers burst into the world, the smart speaker field has brought together almost all international giants including Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Samsung and so on. According to the survey data released by Strategy Analytics, the annual sales volume of smart speakers in 2017 can exceed 10 million units, and the output value of smart speakers can reach or reach the scale of 10 billion US dollars in the next 5 years.
Alibaba's ambition to break into this field is obviously not just to make a product, but to compete for the new super entrance of smart home voice today in the fiery concept of artificial intelligence.
According to media reports, several major domestic companies have already started the war at this super entrance. Jingdong launched its audio products earlier. Tencent will soon release its own smart speaker products. In addition to the Internet giants, Lenovo Group, a traditional IT company, also entered the smart speaker field.
In addition to the appearance of "Tmall Elf," the conference titled "Future, opening and coming," was the only guest in the audience who was the director of A.I. Labs. This gentle-looking lady with no offensive power is Taobao’s first-generation product manager. She talked about the design concept of this product: "After Apple introduced the smart phone, touch is once the best human-computer interaction. And in the future, in the future, there will be no better than the touch of interactive means? We think that voice is the best, because parents may not use complex apps, and children will not use complex home appliances. Through voice, all this can be achieved."
Smart speakers are considered smart home control centers. In volume, she hopes that this product will be "smaller and smaller, and everywhere."
All along, Alibaba’s commercial success has masked its technical success. At the scene of the "Tmall Elf" release, many reporters were curious as to whether the voice technology they used came from the acquisition or Alibaba itself. Light Snow Response: Alibaba has been doing research and development of speech technology for many years.
The difficulty in Chinese speech interaction lies in the semantic understanding of Chinese. The Chinese semantic understanding engine developed by Ali Artificial Intelligence Lab has been specially optimized for commonly used fields such as timing, reminders, weather, entertainment content, home control, assistants, and shopping. Only the weather forecast can understand 786 Chinese language questions. Through in-depth machine learning, "Tmall Genie X1" is compatible with natural semantic understanding in 20 areas. In addition, it also takes into account various practical cases in the dialogue process of the Chinese language, including the children's sounds in the northern dialect, the clean-speaking questions, the children's repeated reduplicatives, and the Chinese expressions that are confused with Putonghua in some of the Chinese dialects. In-depth treatment.
This set of semantic understanding system also has a memory function and a powerful summarizing and inducting capability. It also incorporates simulated "long-term memory" and "short-term memory" functions, enabling the semantic understanding system to be closer to users for different scenarios and time periods. In addition, Ali artificial intelligence laboratory has also begun research in other languages.
In fact, online shopping can be completed through voice. It must rely on voiceprint recognition technology. The user first registers his voice and generates a voice password. After binding with the machine, he/she confirms the function of voiceprint purchase. Later, when you say something like "help me with a box of Coke", "Tmall Elf" asks the user to follow a string of random numbers for voiceprint verification, if it is identified as the user himself, "Tmall Wizard" The payment will be deducted from the user's bound Alipay and the transaction will be rejected. If no voiceprint verification is passed, the transaction will be rejected.
In the "Tmall Elf" - this small cylinder with a diameter of 83 mm, what the user cannot see is the first generation human-computer communication system AliGenie. Developed by Alibaba's team of scientists, it has applied years of natural language understanding and processing techniques. The same day, Ali artificial intelligence laboratory also released the AliGenie developer platform for developers and hardware vendors.
In the future, all business models based on this platform will bring new highlights to Alibaba’s financial report. In mathematics, "X" stands for unknowns and variables. "Tmall Elf X1" is the beginning of China's consumer AI products, full of unknowns and variables. This is why the first product launched by Ali Artificial Intelligence Lab was named X1.
This smart speaker, which looks likely to open the New World, costs $499. Analysis of the industry, the price should still be able to profit. Although reporters did not get test prototypes, many people have already expressed their desire to purchase them. "At this price, we should buy toys for our children."
Shallow Snow said: "I think what we are doing now, like the Taobao that was created at the beginning of the year, is full of fun."
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