preface:

　　 In the recent year, more and more manufacturers seem to have seen the future of technology and started to enter the smart home industry. These various smart products, to a certain extent, have begun to slowly infiltrate our lives. Now, a product that can control the whole smart home, neither routing nor mobile phone, has entered our sight. It is Xiaozhi smart speaker.

It is not just an ordinary speaker. When it is connected to a third-party intelligent device, it can voice control the whole family, realize the linkage of various scene modes, and instantly become a dedicated home voice steward. It (Smart Audio) - seems to come from the future! Now let's take a look at the performance of smart speakers that may come from the future.

Before unpacking, I still thank you! Thank you very much for this trial opportunity given to me by Lei Feng. I believe that smart home products will be the first choice in the next three to five years. Thank you very much!

   This evaluation meeting will be completed at seven o'clock (unpacking introduction, product details, software use Voice interaction and sound quality effect experience, advantages, suggestions, summary)

1、 Unpacking introduction:

▼ While receiving Xiaozhi, open the outer box and see that there is a trial LOGO of Lei Feng on the surface! The top of the packing box is the pattern of Xiaozhi's top display lamp, which gives rise to a sense of technology!

▼ Open the box directly, first look at the packaging. Xiaozhi adopts the design of black from top to bottom, blue from the middle, and then plastic the whole thing, simple and generous.

▼ On the side of the packing box is Xiaozhi's first words to the owner, which is very considerate.

▼ Start unpacking. Open the box for Effectively prevent damage during transportation The first thing we see is a layer of foam packaging.

▼ Remove the foam, and the top of Xiaozhi is displayed in front of the author. Here Xiaozhi still tells its owner about the functions of all buttons of Xiaozhi.

▼ Turn over the paper jam to see Xiaozhi as a whole. At the bottom of the box we saw, we continued to introduce various descriptions of Xiaozhi's holes and slots. These three layers of different instructions make users understand and become familiar with Xiaozhi more quickly in three-dimensional integration, which is very intimate details.

▼ Take out Xiaozhi, and you can see the instruction manual at the bottom of the box. Continue to remove the manual. The wire seen through the eyelet shows that Xiaozhi's packaging still adopts a convenient and easy-to-use multi-layer packaging design.

▼ Remove the upper layer to see the accessories of Xiaozhi, which are power adapter and 3.5mm audio wiring.

▼ Look at the accessories. The power adapter supplied by Xiaozhi seems to be solid.

(The input voltage of the power adapter is 100-240V, the output voltage is 5V, and the current is 4A. It is suitable for use all over the world. You don't need to worry about charging when carrying it anywhere.).

▼ Let's have a look at the Xiaozhi. Is it beautiful?

▼ That's all for unpacking. Thank you for your patience and support. Here is Xiaozhi's family photo.

▼ Unpacking Finally, we will give you a list of products and technical specifications.

2、 Xiaozhi details

▼ Xiaozhi adopts integrated design. Xiaozhi has two different colors, white and black. The one I got is white, which is also my favorite color. I think it is very beautiful. The more I look at it, the more pleasing it will be. On the top of Xiaozhi is a black touch panel. Three icons control Xiaozhi's touch reuse key respectively, and switch different functions according to different pressing times.

▼ Xiaozhi has two MICs on the side. Two MICs can achieve better pickup than one MIC. The official introduction shows that the recognition rate at a distance of 3 meters can reach 94%, which means Xiaozhi can understand your voice commands in the same room. This is the advantage of the two MICs.

▼ The upper part of Xiaozhi adopts a grid design, and the blue metal mesh inside is faintly visible. Here is Xiaozhi's ring sound outlet, which can spread the sound to all directions.

▼ The bottom edge of Xiaozhi's lower layer adopts silver plastic chrome plating design to improve the texture. There are two sockets on one side of the base, which are audio interface and power socket, and wifi signal light is between the two sockets.

▼ Xiaozhi has a power switch at the bottom and a round milky white rubber base at the bottom, which can effectively prevent slipping. At the bottom center is Xiaozhi's app download QR code, which is convenient for users to download software. There is also a Reset button on the edge.

That's all for Xiaozhi.

3、 Software use:

▼ Before use, you still need to download the mobile app. At the bottom of Xiaozhi is the QR code of Xiaozhi assistant app, which can be downloaded by scanning directly.

▼ Open the Xiaozhi assistant app, and still show the owner Xiaozhi's instructions here, which is very simple to use. Plug in the power cord, turn on the switch, and then wait for the connection.

▼ It is also very simple for Xiaozhi Internet to connect to mobile phones and wifi. First click the added plus sign, and then enter the wifi password, Xiaozhi will automatically connect to the wifi network. After the connection is successful, Xiaozhi will let you add the personal information of its owner, and at the same time let Xiaozhi understand you better.

▼ After setting, you will officially enter the main interface of Xiaozhi Assistant app, which is a very simple eight grid design. After clicking music, you can see the music interface Xiaozhi is playing, which is still simple and low-key, and supports the synchronous display of lyrics. Click the symbol in the upper right corner to enter the search list, where you can freely enter songs, singers, albums, lyrics, stories, crosstalks, jokes and other programs you want to hear. The Xiaozhi Assistant app can meet your requirements and can be directly pushed to Xiaozhi for playback.

▼ Xiaozhi has cooperated with Himalaya, the largest audio sharing platform in China, and can order more than 6 million audio programs at will. This may be the main upgrade content of Xiaozhi II. It covers radio programs, music rankings, audio novels, crosstalk, jokes and other audio programs, and can listen to a wide range of content.

▼ It can be seen from smart devices and profiles that this is Xiaozhi's biggest surprise and subversion to us. Through the open interface of Xiaozhi, it can become the same existence as the central brain of smart home after being connected to a third-party intelligent device, and then it can control the whole family through voice, realize the linkage of various scene modes, and instantly become the exclusive home voice steward. It's a pity that Xiaozhi Intelligent supports the   Wi-Fi 28 manufacturers (devices), such as sockets and Wi Fi remote controls, can't feel the fun of voice control of the whole smart home because I don't have smart home of these brands. I hope that small smart will open more products of cooperative manufacturers. Although the author cannot control other smart homes by voice at present, he can still control Xiaozhi by voice. It is very convenient to let Xiaozhi broadcast the weather and set the alarm clock by voice interaction. In the memo list, we can see the time of weather broadcast and alarm clock set by us.

▼ Click Help to view various ways to deal with problems encountered in the process of using Xiaozhi.

▼ In "About", you can see the power and memory information of Xiaozhi. When I saw the running memory, I was shocked. This small speaker still has the running memory only used by our mobile phone or tablet, and it displays 894MB. This should be the product modified from the 1G mobile phone or tablet solution. Suddenly I began to guess that maybe Xiaozhi inherited the voice assistant I can't imagine any more ways to play with the Android system connected with various cloud content players. As I said, can Xiaozhi help me read Sina Weibo? Or do you want to send my voice mail? There are too many possibilities... Click the preset songs here to view the existing local songs. The new Xiaozhi has built in nearly 1G of music resources, so even if there is no network, you can play all kinds of songs you like.  

▼ In the setting, you can not only modify your personal information and connect multiple Xiaozhi, but also set the night mode of LED light off time period. Even if Xiaozhi is placed in the bedroom, it will not affect sleep. At the same time, you can manually set the time and volume of weather broadcast.

▼ In terms of software, Xiaozhi has more abundant excellent resources to bring better content experience. At the same time, all the functions are simple and easy to understand and operate. In the voice control of smart homes, the access to manufacturers' devices is still very limited. I am looking forward to being able to access more manufacturers' smart devices, so that Xiaozhi can really become the central brain of smart homes, and has never changed our lives. I am looking forward to it.

4、 Voice interaction and sound quality effect experience

▼ Without the help of the mobile phone, Xiaozhi can still automatically connect to the current network. After the connection is successful, the top display light and wifi light of Xiaozhi will always be on. The top display light is very beautiful at night.

▼ After connecting to the network, you don't need any keys, just say to Xiaozhi: "Xiaozhi", wait for 3 or 4 seconds, and Xiaozhi will say: "Please tell me", and the green light will flash.

Then you can directly say what you want to hear. Xiaozhi can basically meet all your needs because he has access to massive cloud content such as Everyday Beautiful and Himalaya. After Xiaozhi replies, "Please tell me", you can say, "Play Little Apple", "Play Eason Chan's song", or "Play a song of Deng Ziqi for the future". Even if it is a different grammar, the vaguer instructions Xiaozhi will play the music you want to hear according to your instructions. You can even say "tell a joke", "today's time" or "the weather". Xiaozhi can meet your needs well, and has a strong sense of technology. It is worth mentioning that Xiaozhi also has a chat mode. After saying "chat mode" to Xiaozhi, Xiaozhi will automatically enter the chat mode, and then you can have a free chat with Xiaozhi. All questions will be answered to you. Although the answer is not what you ask occasionally, you can still feel the fun of AI.

After more than a week of continuous trial, the author believes that Xiaozhi's speech recognition ability is very good, especially for Mandarin recognition. Almost all Mandarin can be recognized and played in the same room of an ordinary family. The only regret is that it seems that English on-demand is not supported, so for students who like to listen to English songs, they have to manually input and listen. When the author changed to the local dialect Sichuan dialect, he found that the recognition rate was still more than 5% or 60%, which fully reflected the maturity of Xiaozhi speech recognition technology.
About the network. The author has used Xiaozhi in many places. As long as Xiaozhi has connected to the network before, it will automatically connect when entering the area, which is very convenient! At the same time, the author has also used the 4M telecom broadband for many times, and still can very smooth voice recognition and play the massive cloud music library. In addition, there has not been any pause in the cloud play for more than a week. I have to praise this!
About sound quality. For a portable speaker, Xiaozhi has an absolutely high volume. Even if it is turned to the maximum, there is no broken sound. The author uses it in his 20 square meter living room, and it is enough to adjust the volume to 50%. However, in terms of sound quality, because Xiaozhi uses a single speaker design, the sound quality can only be said to be able to produce sound. When the volume is turned down, the sound quality cannot hear more details, and is more flat. When the volume is turned up, the sound quality can be slightly improved. If the sound quality is not particularly feverish, the performance of Xiaozhi is still acceptable. All the sound quality of Xiaozhi is my personal feeling after I am used to hearing the speaker of the rambler 2.0 bookshelf at home, which is only for reference.

5、 Advantages:

one Excellent speech recognition technology, high speech recognition, and convenient voice interaction such as weather, alarm clock, song ordering are the biggest features of this speaker.
2. With a small body and a loud voice, although the speaker is not big, playing the sound can complete the amplification of loudspeakers competent for square dancing.

three It is not just a smart speaker. After being connected to a third-party intelligent device through the open interface of Xiaozhi, it can voice control the whole family, realize the linkage of various scene modes, and instantly become the exclusive home voice steward. This will have great development after more intelligent devices are connected in the future.

6、 Suggestion:
one . Hope to support English on-demand songs.
2. Hopes the endurance can reach 5 or 6 hours.
3. Replace it with a better single speaker unit. The sound quality can be better.
4. It is also suggested that the top of Xiaozhi can be directly made into a screen, which can visualize the playing track, volume and power.
5. Every time Duo Xiaozhi finishes listening to a song, he hopes Xiaozhi can reply to the song name once, so that it is easier to identify whether it is correctly recognized, rather than listening to the song prelude to identify whether it is correctly played.
6. Adding Bluetooth and NFC to adapt mobile phones should be the most convenient connection method.
7. Since there is a round blue light, I feel that it is not enough to illuminate the whole room, so I should simply make it brighter, and then I can add another function: Xiaozhi, I want a small night light! Xiaozhi just kept the blue light on. It is good to light the night light with voice at night.
8. When Xiaozhi has no network, he cannot interact with others by voice. It is recommended that local songs can still be played on voice demand when there is no network.

7、 Summary:

Xiaozhi is a smart speaker that integrates voice control, personalized recommendation and cloud music library. After connecting to the network through wifi, you can realize voice interaction of weather, alarm clock, song order and even chat without using a mobile phone. In addition, the biggest purpose of Xiaozhi's existence may be to be a device similar to the central brain of smart home, and then to be able to control other smart homes through its voice interaction features, which is the real future of Xiaozhi. Although at present, Xiaozhi's control of intelligent home is just a gimmick, but this is just the beginning of Xiaozhi, Xiaozhi still makes me feel worthy of expectation.

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                                                                       2015 、10、25