In 2022, Xiaomi, Huawei and Tmall were smarter.

First, the focus of each brand of smart speakers:

Xiaodu, Xiao Ai, Tmall Elf, Huawei Xiaodu and Apple homepod are five brands that are relatively good in the domestic market at present:

The first echelon: Xiao Di, Xiao Ai and Tmall Elves account for more than 90% of the total market;

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

Other speakers add up to less than 5% (don't entangle the specific figures, it doesn't make sense).

Therefore, this paper mainly introduces these five brands, which have different backgrounds, advantages and emphases.

(1) Xiao Ai:

Backed by Xiaomi Mijia, the natural smart home gene is powerful. Mijia is the best brand in the field of toc smart home in China.

Products: There are many products on the screenless smart speaker, and there are many products to choose from. Good sound quality, infrared, and so on.

Basically, there are Bluetooth mesh gateways. Because the main communication protocols of Xiaomi Mijia Smart Home are Wi-Fi and Bluetooth/Bluetooth mesh.

(2) small degree:

A small degree is backed by Baidu Group, so the Q&A content is rich, and it also has advantages in ai artificial intelligence.

In terms of products, there are small screen speakers and many products, such as downloading apps, batteries, education, and so on.

(3) Tmall Elf:

The Tmall Elf is backed by Ali, and the speaker naturally has e-commerce attributes. What is the payment for phone bills, energy collection and shopping?

Product: Tmall Elf has no screen, focusing on young people, and has a good personality. The screen is cost-effective.

(4) Huawei Art:

Behind Huawei I is Huawei's smart home. In addition to Xiaomi, brands that have done fairly well in the face of consumers.

About products: all are screen-less speakers with good sound quality. Huawei Audio Series is several speakers with the best sound quality in China. I'll talk about his sound quality in detail later.

Someone said, "Huawei is the only brand in China that remembers smart speakers. The first is the speaker, which shows that it has made great efforts in the sound quality of the speaker. Its speakers are related to the parameters of three-frequency division, frequency response range, frequency response curve, signal-to-noise ratio and so on used by professional speakers. (I'll talk about it in detail later)

Apple homepod

Backed by Apple, Apple's homekit smart home is generally developed in China, with few products. It is a bit difficult for users to make smart homes.

Product: At present, only one speaker of homepod mini is on sale, which is also the only choice for fruit powder. (homepod has been discontinued and the price market can't accept it)

Second, smart speakers often involve problems:

(1) Which brand of smart speaker is smarter?

Advice to friends: don't believe the conclusions given by some blindly evaluated accounts.

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

The most basic principle of evaluation should be matching or the same price. Many people in the market euphemistically call out several speakers, 79- 1999, and then come to the conclusion that this brand of speakers is smarter, this speaker has better sound quality, and this speaker is Barabara. This is nonsense.

79' s 2 microphones and 3w speakers.

Four microphones of 599, 8w speaker, professional tuning and hifi chip.

1999 cooperated with other people's professional companies, 6 microphones, 100 W speakers.

Then you tell me that the brand of 1999 is the smartest, and the brand of 79 is the worst. Is this a joke? 1999 has six microphones, and its radio reception ability is definitely better than that of 79. Just ignore such comments.

In fact, the speech recognition capabilities of the three speakers, Xiaodu, Xiao Ai and Tmall Elf, are almost the same now. We often say that intelligence is not intelligent, which is largely determined by the number of microphones in the speaker. Because microphones are radio equipment, the more microphones there are, the greater the probability of hearing what you say and hearing what you say clearly. Only by listening clearly and listening clearly can you recognize it, which is the most cost-effective.

The number of microphones is different, even the microphones of the same brand will have different performances. I started using Xiao ai speaker 6 microphone and Xiao Ai touch screen speaker 2 microphone. It's okay to talk normally five meters away, and it's okay to talk normally three meters away. It will be very loud at five meters.

(2) Why do all giants have smart speakers?

The function of smart speakers, if you just listen to songs, watch videos and ask encyclopedia. Baidu, Tencent, Ali, Xiaomi, Apple, Huawei, Amazon, these giants will not sharpen their heads and squeeze in, but also invest so much.

Because the smart speaker is not only a "speaker", it is also the voice control entrance of smart home. If you want to control the smart home by voice, you need something that can understand people's words-a smart speaker. Therefore, the giant is aiming at the trillion-dollar smart home market behind smart speakers. Imagine that you can use voice to control the room lighting, air conditioning, TV, curtains, washing machines, water heaters, sweeping robots, humidifiers and other intelligent devices. Is it cool? These are smart home devices behind smart speakers. I have a smart speaker, and when I choose supporting equipment in the future, I will probably choose other equipment that can be controlled by this speaker, otherwise it will be wasted. The smart home of the future is just like the mobile phone of 20 years ago. If mobile phones can sell so well today, smart speakers will not be sold. If smart speakers sell well, smart homes around smart speakers will definitely not be sold.

(3) What does a gateway with smart speakers mean and what is its use?

Looking at the introduction of smart speakers, we should see that it comes with a Bluetooth mesh gateway, which can be linked with 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:

A speaker with gateway is introduced

Gateway: It is the control center of smart home. It is a device that allows smart home devices that cannot be directly connected to the network to connect to the network. It receives commands from the cloud and sends them to smart home devices, thus achieving the purpose of controlling smart home; Then the status of the device is also fed back to the gateway, and the gateway uploads it to the terminal like the app we use. So it played the role of uploading and distributing.

What is Bluetooth mesh? Bluetooth mesh is a communication protocol, and the communication protocol is a communication language between devices. Only intelligent devices with the same communication protocol can interact with each other. At present, there are three mainstream communication protocols: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth/Bluetooth mesh and zigbee. Except Wi-Fi, both of them need a gateway to connect to the Internet. A gateway with Bluetooth mesh refers to an intelligent device that supports accessing and controlling Bluetooth/Bluetooth mesh protocol. If I want to control Bluetooth and zigbee smart devices at the same time, I need a multimode gateway that integrates two communication protocol modules.

(But remember, this is a device in the same smart home ecosystem. For example, it is impossible to control Xiaomi's Bluetooth device with a small speaker with a Bluetooth gateway, because there are brand barriers that cannot be controlled. )

At the end of the article, an "egg" of smart home is attached. If you are interested, I promise to be useful, and I promise not to regret it.

(4) What is the meaning of infrared with smart speakers and what is its use?

Infrared, also known as universal infrared remote control. It is also a related parameter of smart home. Universal infrared is a kind of equipment that can turn traditional equipment into intelligent equipment and realize intelligent control directly. When we are doing smart homes, it is inevitable that some devices do not want to be replaced or have better brand choices. For example, the traditional TV and air conditioner at home. At this time, if the smart speaker is equipped with infrared, we can control these smart devices directly through voice.

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

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

There are two ways to control smart devices without a gateway speaker or an infrared speaker:

First: directly buy smart devices with Wi-Fi communication protocols. Wi-Fi protocol devices can be directly controlled without using a gateway to connect to the network.

Second: buy a separate gateway (infrared transponder) to use with the smart speaker. So you can control smart home devices.

Tmall Elf basically has no gateway. Therefore, the devices connected to Tmall Elf are basically Wi-Fi.

(6) Which resource is more?

At present, there are not many problems with the resources of each family. Most of the resources used by everyone are third-party resources: for example, music resources, all three use QQ music, and all want to listen to members' songs through QQ music members. Like Xiao Di, the Tmall Elf is also connected to Cool Me and Cool Dog music, but it feels the same when actually used. Many songs need members. Therefore, third-party resources still need members, and we can't buy three members. That's it.

(7) What should I buy for the elderly?

It is best for the elderly to choose smart speakers with screens.

With the screen, you can make direct video calls. Old people can communicate with their children through direct voice control outside without manual operation.

Speakers with screens, such as Xiao Di and Tmall Elf, have the function of going home to watch. You can check the situation at home at any time through your mobile phone. Old people can monitor and capture photos at home. Safer.

(8) What is suitable for sending children?

Children pay more attention to learning; Then there is the children's model, which can protect the eyes and filter out some bad content; Of course, there are monitoring and video functions. Therefore, it is also recommended to send smart speakers with screens:

This degree is more suitable for the screen version of Tmall Elf. In addition, Xiaodu and Tmall Elf also have a learning model specifically for children, Xiaodu Intelligent Education Screen, and Tmall Elf cc 10 series. There are free PEP teacher education resources.