Recently, two news about smart speakers have received much attention, which has also triggered heated debates and disputes in the market.
First, Samsung recently released a smart speaker called Galaxy Home, which rushed to Amazon Echo, Google Home and Apple HomePod. The company announced that it will release smart speakers in October, which is expected to break the current domestic smart speakers. Market pattern, driving the development trend of smart speakers.
Second, the security issues of smart speakers are frequently exposed. For example, hackers invade Amazon Echo speakers, eavesdropping, recording, and even send recording files to remote servers via the network; Amazon's intelligent voice assistant Alexa is inexplicably awakened by false wake-up, Sonos speaker users 4. The device said that the device squeaked at the maximum volume, the baby cried and the glass broke.
On the one hand, the global Internet and technology companies have entered the field, laying out the field of smart speakers. On the other hand, smart speakers are constantly appearing security risks, false wake-ups, unanswerable, data privacy leaks, etc. What is the future prospect of smart speakers?
The intelligent speaker is the product of artificial intelligence combined with traditional speakers. The basic principle is that the user uses natural language to communicate with the machine (ie speaker). The speaker completes the corresponding tasks by recognizing the user's voice instructions, such as on-demand music, listening to news, setting schedules, and inquiring. Information, etc. In short, in the past, the user manually operated the completed task, now the 'moving mouth' can be realized, and the convenience of life is greatly improved.
Since its inception in 2014, smart speakers have formed a certain market size. According to statistics, in 2017, global smart speaker shipments reached 32 million units, an increase of more than 300% year-on-year, and is expected to reach 56.3 million units in 2018. Qualcomm released The 2018 Usage Status Report shows that smart speakers are the most popular audio consumer terminals - 32% of respondents said they would choose to integrate cloud voice assistants if they could only buy one terminal in the next 12 months. Smart speaker.
The ultimate value of smart speakers is to liberate human hands, making people's lives not only convenient, but also free and efficient. Although smart phones are very versatile, in environments suitable for voice output, such as home, smart speakers can better serve users. For Internet companies such as Amazon, it is necessary to find hardware products other than mobile phones as the traffic portal for smart homes. With refrigerators, TVs, air conditioners, electric lights, curtains, sweepers and other household products, more and more intelligent, theoretically intelligent Speakers can integrate all services. You can turn on the lights, TV, let the sweeper work or stop, or open the curtains in bed, etc. For the elderly and children with limited mobility, they may control the family with just one command. The whole set of smart home systems.
The first thing to decide about the development of smart speakers is the security problem: Once the smart speaker is invaded, it will cause the entire smart home system to be destroyed. In addition, it will reduce the false wake-up ratio, solve the dialect command, provide far-field positioning, and improve the speech recognition effect. Provide technical issues such as natural language processing.