Which smart speaker is better for home control?

Which smart speaker is better

Which Xiaodu flagship smart speaker is better?

Xiaodu’s flagship smart speaker adopts a barrel-shaped structure in appearance, which can bring richer and more atmospheric sound quality. The design style tends towards the minimalist Japanese style. The whole machine does not have too many complicated elements. The shell has a delicate frosting process and a woven mesh cover. It is exquisitely made, comfortable to touch and beautiful to look at. As a "home decoration" , it is qualified. The compact body can be placed anywhere you want without taking up too much space.

This speaker is also equipped with a 1.75-inch full-range internal magnetic speaker. It has built-in high-end dual passive radiators to make the bass more explosive. The internal magnetic speaker can clearly restore the delicate layering of songs.

In addition to being an artificial intelligence speaker, the Xiaodu artificial intelligence speaker is also a Bluetooth speaker. It supports Bluetooth playback and DLNA wireless music projection.

Xiaodu artificial intelligence speakers also have early childhood education functions. It cooperates with QQ Music to access more than 20 million genuine music library resources. It also cooperates with content platforms such as Dragonfly FM and Lazy Listening Book. It can provide users with many high-quality audio programs. And if you want to use it for children, this speaker also has a special children's mode, which can provide content through directional design, making it easier and more enjoyable for children to learn.

First of all, let’s talk about Xiaomi’s Xiaoai. Xiaoai was only launched a few years ago and is a relatively young intelligent voice assistant. However, because of Xiaomi’s technology, Xiaoai is a voice assistant. It quickly became stronger. On the other hand, Xiaodu appeared relatively early, and in 2014, Baidu launched the Xiaodu robot. Which one is better, Xiaodu smart speaker or Xiaomi? I prefer Xiaodu to Xiaoai. Xiaodu smart speakers are equipped with Baidu's conversational artificial intelligence operating system DuerOS, which has more than 10 million hours of massive audio content and more than 400 commonly used skills in daily life.

Hardware configuration

Xiaodu smart speaker

Xiaodu smart speaker (3 photos)

1. High-sensitivity full-range speaker, Equipped with a new sound wave reflection cone design, it provides a 360° listening experience without blind spots;

2. Professional-grade power amplifier and tuning, round tone, clear and translucent, even in a large space, it is still clear and full, presenting Clear human voice;

3. Adopt beamforming technology to effectively shield interference, long-distance voice control, wake-up distance up to 5 meters;

4. Built-in ARM Cortex A53 quad-core processor, low Power consumption, high integration, faster speech recognition speed, better audio processing effect;

5. Multiple link methods, Wi-Fi network search, Bluetooth playback, support DLNA protocol, and are not subject to constraints to meet a variety of hearing needs.

Product functions

1. Massive audio resources

Massive music resources, voice search for singer names, song names, lyrics, and music can be played; introduce Dragonfly FM , Kaola FM, Lanren Tingshu and other audio content platform resources, currently has more than 20 million high-quality audio programs, and can directly listen to more than 1,000 provincial and municipal radio stations.

2. Encyclopedia query

Introduces more than 14 million entries in Baidu Encyclopedia and has more than 400 special skills to fully satisfy users' curiosity.

3. Life tools

Supports practical functions such as weather query, limited number record query, math problem calculation, stock market query, currency exchange rate calculation, memo, countdown, alarm clock and other practical functions.

4. Leisure and entertainment

The built-in interesting corpus system provides chatting, jokes and other services to enrich users' lives.

5. Children’s mode

Different from the standard mode, we have designed the sound, content, and interactive experience specifically for children. Xiaodu smart speakers also have 80W of high-quality children's audio programs and 10W of authoritatively certified maternal and infant Q&A content from Baby Knows.

6. Voice control of home appliances

Commonly used home appliances can be controlled by voice, such as lights, air conditioners, air purifiers, water heaters, curtains, etc.

Which smart speaker is better?

Xiaodu Smart Speaker Donkey Kong

Xiaodu Smart Speaker Donkey Kong has 12 3-color ring-shaped LED light strips on the top, and also has two symmetrically designed 2.0-inch full-frequency neodymium iron The boron internal magnetic speaker can be said to have the sound quality of a steel cannon. It supports infrared control and can intelligently project the screen, making it more convenient to use.

Widely recognized in AI interaction. It has a more powerful Baidu search function, and its speech recognition rate, understanding rate, and satisfaction are all pretty good

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Xiaomi AI Speaker pro

This is a heavyweight product of the Xiaomi ecosystem. With it, you can control the powerful Mi series home ecological chain. In terms of appearance design, it can be said to be a "scaled down version" of the Xiaomi air purifier. The size and weight are relatively moderate, and it has 6 ring microphones support 360-degree sound pickup, are very sensitive to sound pickup, have good far-field wake-up effects, and support 2.4G/5G WiFi frequency bands. The sound quality is pretty good, low frequencies and vocals are relatively clear, and it supports Bluetooth 4.1 and DLNA.

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Huawei Soundx

The new soundX cooperates with Devialet. Both are the world's top audio manufacturers. Enthusiasts who like entry-level sound quality should not miss it. , black technology that can transmit sound with just one touch, two 3.5-inch woofers, plus 60W transmit power, and has Huawei HiLink smart home interconnection platform. It currently has more than 100 smart home products, and Huawei players can start.

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Homepodmini

The Homepodmini series is much more sensitive than other brands of products in the series in terms of speech recognition rate, understanding rate, and satisfaction rate. , recall rate, and satisfaction rate are in the leading position in all brand evaluations!

The biggest feature of Apple’s smart speaker is that it is a Bluetooth speaker equipped with Siri assistant, which can calculate the scene by itself. When changing its placement location, it will automatically adjust to the appropriate configuration so that the sound can be evenly spread to Everywhere in the space, coupled with the interactive capabilities of the Apple product series, it is a good smart speaker.

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Tmall Elf

HI-FI audio chip/CD-level music enjoyment, can realize automatic EQ sound effect adjustment function, and focuses more on voice interaction technology The enabling value is to strengthen its shopping/Alipay interoperability attributes, associate brand home appliance control, and also prompt functions such as Cainiao Parcel/Alipay Huabei

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Dingdon AI

JD.com’s smart home ecological chain, supported by iFlytek technology, supports more than 200 smart home appliances and can also make online voice calls, which is convenient for chatting with family members, but the functions and sound quality are not outstanding enough

Which one is smarter, Xiaodu, Xiaomi, Huawei or Tmall Elf in 2022

Xiaomi is smarter

1. Introduction to the key points of each brand of smart speakers:

Xiaodu, Xiaoai, Tmall Elf, Huawei Xiaoyi, and Apple Homepod are currently the best brands in the domestic market:

The first echelon: Xiaodu, Xiaodu Love, the total market share of Tmall Genie exceeds 90%;

The second echelon is: Huawei, and Apple homepod smart speakers account for more than 5%:

Other speakers combined The proportion is less than 5 (don’t get hung up on specific numbers, it’s meaningless)

So this article mainly introduces these five brands. These brands have different backgrounds, different advantages, and different focuses.

(1) Xiaoai classmates:

Backed by Xiaomi Mijia, it is born with strong smart home genes. Mijia is the best brand in the TOC smart home field in China.

In terms of products: There are rich products on screenless smart speakers, and there are many products to choose from. Good sound quality, with infrared, etc.

Basically all have Bluetooth mesh gateways.

Because the main communication protocols of Xiaomi Mijia smart home are Wi-Fi and Bluetooth/Bluetooth mesh.

(2) Xiaodu:

Xiaodu is backed by Baidu Group, so it has rich question and answer content and also has advantages in AI artificial intelligence.

In terms of products, Xiaodu has a screen speaker, which is the best in the industry. There are many products, including ones that can download apps, ones with batteries, ones for education, etc.

( 3) Tmall Genie:

Tmall Genie is backed by Alibaba, so the speakers naturally have e-commerce attributes, such as paying phone bills, collecting energy, and paying for purchases.

In terms of products: Tmall Genie’s screen-free product is mainly targeted at young people and has good looks and personality. Good value for money with a screen.

(4) Huawei Xiaoyi:

Behind Huawei Xiaoyi is Huawei’s smart home. Apart from Xiaomi, it is probably a brand that does quite well in direct-to-consumer marketing.

In terms of products: They are all screen-less speakers with very good sound quality. Huawei's sound series are some of the speakers with the best sound quality produced in China. (I will introduce its sound quality in detail later)

Some people say: "Huawei is the only brand in China that still remembers that smart speakers are first and foremost a speaker." This shows that it has great advantages in speaker sound quality. A lot of effort. Its speakers involve three-way frequency, frequency response range, frequency response curve, signal-to-noise ratio and other parameters used by professional speakers. (I will talk about it in detail later)

Apple homepod

Backed by Apple, Apple’s HomeKit smart home has a general development in China. There are not many products. Users want to make a smart home. Home is a bit of a stretch.

In terms of products: Currently, there is only one speaker on sale, the HomePod Mini, which is also the only choice for Apple fans. (Homepod has been discontinued, and the price market cannot accept it)

Second, issues often involved in smart speakers:

(1) Which brand of smart speakers is smarter?

A word of advice to all my friends: Don’t believe the conclusions given by some blind review accounts.

The quality of speakers still depends on the specific configuration of the specific model.

The most basic principle of evaluation should be the same match or the same price. Many speakers on the market come out with some euphemistic names, ranging from 79 to 1999, and then come to the conclusion that this brand of speakers is smarter, this speaker has better sound quality, this speaker is awesome. Isn't this nonsense?

79’s 2 microphones, 3w speakers.

599 has 4 microphones, 8w speakers, professional tuning, and hifi chip.

Cooperated with a professional company in 1999, 6 microphones, more than 100W speakers.

Then you tell me that 1999 is the most intelligent brand and 79 is the least intelligent. Isn’t this a joke? The 1999 has 6 microphones. It is definitely better than the 79 in terms of pickup distance and pickup capability. Just ignore this kind of evaluation.

In fact, the speech recognition capabilities of Xiaodu, Xiaoai, and Tmall Elf speakers are similar. What we often call smart or not is largely determined by the number of microphones in a speaker. Because microphones are devices that collect sound, the more microphones there are, the greater the probability of being able to hear what you are saying, and the greater the probability of being able to hear what you are saying clearly. Only when you can hear and hear clearly can you recognize it. This is the most cost-effective way. .

The number of microphones is different, even if they are of the same brand, they will behave differently. I first used the Xiaoai AI speaker with 6 mics and the Xiaoai touch screen speaker with 2 mics. A normal call from five meters away is no problem. A normal voice from three meters away is no problem, but it is very loud at five meters away.

(2) Why do all the giants deploy smart speakers?

The function of smart speakers is just to listen to songs, watch videos, and ask encyclopedias. Giants such as Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, Xiaomi, Apple, Huawei, and Amazon will not squeeze in with their heads sharpened, and they will invest so much.

Because a smart speaker is not just a "speaker", it is also the voice control entrance of a smart home. If you want to control a smart home with voice, you need something that can understand human speech - a smart speaker. Therefore, the giants are targeting the trillion-level smart home market behind smart speakers. Imagine that you can use your voice to control room lights, air conditioners, TVs, curtains, washing machines, water heaters, sweeping robots, humidifiers and other smart devices. Isn’t it cool? These are the smart home devices behind smart speakers. I have a smart speaker, so when I choose supporting equipment later, I will most likely choose other equipment that can be controlled by this speaker, otherwise it will be a waste. Smart homes in the future are just like mobile phones 20 years ago. If mobile phones can sell so well today, smart speakers will not have to worry about selling. If smart speakers sell well, smart homes around smart speakers will definitely not have to worry about selling. Sell.

(3) What does the gateway on the smart speaker mean and what is its use?

If you look at the introduction of smart speakers, you will see that they come with a Bluetooth mesh gateway that can be linked to smart home devices on a certain platform. Many people don’t know what a gateway is? This gateway is closely related to the smart home mentioned above:

Introduction to a certain speaker with gateway

Gateway: It is the control center of the smart home. It is a device that allows smart home devices that cannot be directly connected to the Internet to connect to the Internet. It accepts commands from the cloud and issues them to smart home devices to achieve the purpose of controlling smart homes; then the status of the device is also fed back to the gateway after the execution of the operation, and the gateway uploads it to a terminal such as the app we use. So it plays the role of uploading and distributing.

What is Bluetooth mesh: Bluetooth mesh is a communication protocol. The communication protocol is the language used to communicate between devices. Only smart devices with the same communication protocol can interact with each other. There are currently three mainstream communication protocols: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth/Bluetooth mesh, and zigbee. Except for Wi-Fi, the remaining two require gateways to connect to the Internet. Having a Bluetooth mesh gateway means that it supports smart devices that access and control the Bluetooth/Bluetooth mesh protocol. If I want to control Bluetooth and Zigbee smart devices at the same time, I need a multi-mode gateway that integrates two communication protocol modules.

(But remember that they are devices in the same smart home ecosystem. For example, Xiaodu speakers with Bluetooth gateways cannot control Xiaomi’s Bluetooth devices because there are brand barriers and cannot be controlled)

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I have included a smart home “Easter egg” at the end of the article. If you are interested, I guarantee it will be useful and I guarantee you will not regret it.

(4) What does the infrared on the smart speaker mean and what is its use?

Infrared, also called universal infrared remote control. It is another relevant parameter of smart home. Universal infrared is a device that can turn traditional equipment into intelligent equipment and directly realize intelligent control. When we are building smart homes, it is inevitable that there are some devices that we do not want to replace or there are better brands to choose from. For example, traditional TVs and air conditioners at home. At this time, if the smart speakers are equipped with infrared, we can directly control these smart devices with voice.

Because the TV and air conditioner at home are generally controlled by infrared remote controls, it is equivalent to buying a speaker with its own universal infrared remote control.

(5) How can a smart speaker without a gateway control a smart home?

There are two ways to control smart devices with speakers without a gateway or speakers without infrared:

First: directly buy (same ecological) Wi-Fi communication protocol of smart devices. Devices using the Wi-Fi protocol do not need a gateway to help connect to the network, that is, they can be controlled directly.

Second: Buy a separate gateway (infrared repeater) and use it with a smart speaker. This allows you to control smart home devices.

Tmall Genie basically does not have a gateway. Therefore, the devices controlled by Tmall Genie are basically Wi-Fi.

(6) Which company has more resources?

Nowadays, there is no question of how many resources each company has. Most of the resources we use are third-party resources: such as music. Resources, all three companies use QQ Music. If you want to listen to member songs, you need a QQ Music membership. Like Xiaodu, Tmall Genie also has access to Kuwo and Kugou Music, but the actual experience is the same. Many songs require membership. Therefore, third-party resources still require membership, and we cannot buy all three memberships. So that’s about it.

(7) What should you buy as a gift to the elderly?

It is best to choose a smart speaker with a screen as a gift to the elderly.

With a screen, you can make direct video calls. The elderly can video chat with their children outside without manual operation and direct voice control.

Speakers with screens, such as Xiaodu and Tmall Genie, have a home-view function. You can check the situation at home through your mobile phone at any time. The elderly can monitor and take pictures when they are at home. Be safer.

(8) What kind of gift is suitable for children?

Children are more focused on learning; then there is a child mode, which can protect the eyes and filter out some harmful content; of course Has surveillance and video functions. Therefore, it is also recommended to send a smart speaker with a screen:

This Xiaodu and Tmall Genie’s screen version are more suitable. In addition, Xiaodu and Tmall Elf have learning models specifically for children, Xiaodu smart education screens, and Tmall Elf cc10 series. There are free educational resources from famous teachers of the People's Education Press.

Which smart speaker is the best - the smartest smart speaker in 2021

Smart speakers have now entered more and more families, not only are they good-looking , and the performance is excellent and the sound quality is good. It can not only relieve stress, but also make the body and mind happy. It is really convenient to buy one and take it home. I will recommend several Bluetooth speakers to you below.

1. Xiaodu Bluetooth speaker

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It comes with a 360 infrared transmitter, and the infrared home appliance matching rate is as high as 99%, making it easy to control home appliances. Supports voice control, you can operate it with just your mouth.

2. Xiaomi Bluetooth Speaker

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The large sound cavity volume of 750ml makes the bass more powerful and powerful, and enhances the sound quality effect. Equipped with HiFi-level audio processing chip to restore the true original sound.

3. JBL Bluetooth speaker

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It adopts IPX7 water-proof design, so it is not afraid of rain, splashing and other domestic water, and will last longer. Equipped with an integrated body, the dimensions are precise and the workmanship is exquisite.

4. Huawei Bluetooth Speaker

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The appearance is made of piano paint, which is bright and textured, scratch-resistant and wear-resistant, and extends its service life. It has a one-touch sound transmission function, eliminating the need for cumbersome operations.

5. Edifier Bluetooth Speaker

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It has a mini body design, easy to carry when going out, and does not take up space for storage, adding fun to the journey. Use large-capacity polymer lithium battery for long-lasting battery life.

6. Boshi Bluetooth Speaker

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Small in size but big in energy, easy to carry, it can take you to enjoy the charm of music at all times. Wireless Bluetooth connection, free and unfettered.