At present, the highest market share of smart audio is the Amazon Echo series of products, grab about 70% of the market pie, and push the second generation of Echo products, to fully consolidate the territory, Google Home market share of over 20%, while Apple Initially introduced Siri function, but failed to move ahead in the smart audio market, at this stage and the big manufacturers such as Amazon is still a big gap, Apple will launch HomePod in December, will be able to regain the city, becoming the market focus.
In addition, the mainland's Alibaba strong main 'Lynx Elf', and including Jingdong Group, Lenovo, Haier and millet, layout of smart audio market is also menacing .In addition to playing smart music audio function, with the voice assistant with, it seems to become intelligent The family's voice control center includes smart devices in remote-controlled homes, smart lighting fixtures, streaming music, remote controlled air-conditioning and even travel arrangements, reading news of the day and weather reports.
In the future, more intelligent new functions will be gradually introduced to smart audio or related equipment. With the continuous improvement of the AI database, the enhancement of network functions and the accuracy of voice recognition, the combination of voice commands and projection functions may become the next wave of new trends Recently, some operators have combined the miniature projector directly with the set-top boxes and home audio to accelerate the application of smart projection.
Projector maker Yang Ming Optics said the combination of projector and intelligent audio stack product design can indeed complement each other to benefit from the second quarter shipments amplification, micro-projection optical modules in the first half revenue ratio of pull To 51% .It is estimated that at least 3 to 5 operators are currently planning new applications for smart projection combining AI and networking functions. Relevant modules will be shipped as soon as the first quarter of 2018, Projection market rapidly rising scale.
In addition, the recent popularity of 3D sensing technology, is also expected to import smart audio applications, as the 2018 smart audio specifications will continue to upgrade, in addition to the existing voice control capabilities, is expected to carry 3D sensing technology, by flying Ranging sensing technology to improve the user's space and distance sensing accuracy, or to join the home security control and other new features.
Lite-On in 2017 has been into the Amazon Echo product line power supply supply chain has become an important momentum of shipment growth in Q3, and Lite's camera module and invisible LED components, will also be homeopathic into the 3D camera applications.
The industry pointed out that compared to the smart phone market and applications gradually entering the plateau, smart audio is in the fast-growing boom. With all the plants snatched into the smart home market, various new products are launched in vain, and the related new supply chain is implicit Forming, will bring huge business opportunities.