SHANGHAI, July 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- The Tech World Event of Lenovo was held in
Shanghai on July 20th, 2017. AI played the biggest
role this year. Turing Robot serves as the voice assistant of
Lenovo's latest Concept home device Smart Cast+ which was
quite remarkable at the event.
In recent years, intelligent home devices are seeing more and
more adoptions. Major companies are
producing these products,
such as Amazon's Echo and
Google's Google Home.
In mid 2017, Apple also
published its home device with Siri inside called Home Pod.
Compared to the extreme competition overseas, the home devices
industry in China seems a little
bit quiet. Xiaomi, JD, Baidu and
Alibaba all have sold
similar products.
For the home device
industry in and outside of China,
the one difficulty they all face is the immature intelligent home
furnishing ecosystem. To stay
competitive in the market, voice interface is the key, as it weighs
the most in the experience and intelligence level of a home
device. Take Echo for example, in 2014, when Echo made its
first appearance, its relatively
poor function didn't get Amazon much applause. But then things
changed when Alexa joined the
game.
Early this year, Lenovo released a home device that looked a lot like Echo, which had
both an English and Chinese
version. Its English version used Alexa as Echo did, and the Chinese version was provided by
Lenovo Academy. But this time with Smart Cast+, not only its
appearance is more creative, but also its Chinese voice
assistant was provided by
Turing Robot.
Turing Robot has abundant data
resources in the areas of voice
assistant. Early in 2012, Turing Robot launched an app called Wormhole, a voice
assistant app, announced its stepping into the war of voice
assistant. Recently, Turing
Robot's open platform has over 600,000 enterprises and developers,
which made Turing Robot the world's biggest open
platform for a chat
bot. The large data
storage that Turing Robot possesses guarantees Smart
Cast+'s experience at its voice interface level.
Having Turing Robot as
its voice assistant, Smart Cast's users can "wake up"
SmartCast+ by saying "Hello,
Lenovo" and find songs and movies using
their voices. Users can also search
for information such as weather forecast, stories,
encyclopedias, FAQ and so on. Turing Robot not only plays the role
of voice assistant, but works
more like an operating
system.
SmartCast+ is a smart speaker with projection,
plus the function of object recognition and AR interaction. This
means users can not only talk to it, but also touch the screen
projected on the desk, just like the way you interact with
a tablet.
Presently, SmartCast+ is no more than a concept product, its
release is still pending. Can
Lenovo and Turing Robot can copy the success of Amazon and Alexa?
Let's wait and see.
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