As we all know, due to some reasons, the Android system cannot play 100% of its strength in China, such as various Google services, which we simply cannot use. At a time when all kinds of voice intelligent assistants are alive and well, HTC U11 has its own Google Assistant abroad, while at home, it cooperates with Baidu's DuerOS, so let's have a good experience.

Small assistant

In terms of system, DuerOS conversational AI operating system is perfectly integrated with HTC. Simply press the Home key for a long time to call out a small assistant. This operation is very similar to the voice assistant of various systems, so there is no strangeness in using it. What's more, you can use the new function Edge Sense of U11 to squeeze the two sides of the screen to call out small assistants.

However, this OS is not the other OS. DuerOS is not the underlying operating system of mobile phones, but runs in the cloud, enabling mobile phones to acquire the ability of human-computer intelligent dialogue.

（ Press and hold the Home key of U11 to wake up the mini assistant ）

（ You can also use the new function Edge Sense of U11 to squeeze both sides of the screen to wake up ）

Now that it is an intelligent voice assistant, let's see what small assistants can do. Of course, it is no problem to make phone calls, send text messages, and inquire about the weather. But even better, small assistants can combine context, form a coherent conversation content, and interact with users in multiple rounds:

（ A continuous dialogue about where to eat ）

（ Siri, on the other hand, is unable to answer when facing a coherent dialogue ）

It can be found that the small assistant is very anthropomorphic, not as simple as an ordinary voice assistant, but can chat like your ordinary friends, without appearing so cold. "Coherence" is also a deep experience for the author. It is really a good experience to form a coherent dialogue with this kind of voice assistant.

In addition, compared with other intelligent voice assistants, small assistant can also help you to complete some more difficult operations, such as "call McDonald's". After listening to the command, it can immediately query the number and dial it. Moreover, it can also give commands such as "Open the official website of Hupu", which reduces the step of entering the website address.

（ When searching web pages, the recognition rate of voice is also very high, and words can be automatically corrected ）

（ Want to download the app? It's too simple. You can jump to the app store interface by saying the name directly ）

What's more, some common operations can also be completed using small assistants, such as opening apps, downloading software, searching content, etc., which can improve the efficiency of various operations and reduce many tedious steps.

In addition, some adjustments involving the system level can also be done through small assistants, such as turning on Bluetooth, turning on WiFi, turning on a flash, etc. Why bother looking for things that can be done with your mouth as before:- D

Between and Siri

Secondly, small assistants can also help you solve many common sense problems, which is what Siri lacks. Since the Chinese version of Siri was released, it has not made any qualitative leap. Next, let's also use the iPhone 6s to compare with it:

（ Small assistants can not only answer this question, but also continue to answer the previous conversation, while Siri gives web search results ）

（ Siri will encounter certain difficulties when listening to commands, and its Chinese recognition rate has not been greatly improved in recent years ）

（ Small assistants can also help you solve idioms ）

For some common sense questions, the small assistant can give a direct answer, which is very practical, such as querying Chinese and English words, reading new words, unit conversion, and so on. I want to know who took The Name of the People? Small assistants can also answer you, but Siri still gives the web search results as always.

（ Little assistant and Siri have no problem answering this question ）

（ For this problem, the small assistant will directly open the sports website after listening, and Siri can give an intuitive detail map ）

In these questions, small assistants can answer directly, while Siri basically can only open the web page for you to query the search results, so in contrast, Siri experience that the results are not so intuitive. OK， The above operations are functional, so let's do some pleasant operations:

Although you can also flirt with Siri, the small assistant can also show you a Gif picture, which is very interesting and fun. Of course, not only that, but also pictures and text jokes, which are highly playable.

Say at the end

From the above, I won't say how vulnerable Siri is to small assistants. I can only say that the latter is more grounded and conforms to the usage habits of Chinese people. The suggestions and answers given are more humane and reasonable. All kinds of click operations that usually require several steps can be solved in one sentence, and we have passed the age when it would be embarrassing to talk to ourselves on the phone.

Moreover, Baidu DuerOS's opening and enabling of the mobile phone industry will lower the threshold of the entire mobile phone industry, speed up the landing of intelligent voice assistants in the mobile phone market, and make mobile phone use more and more simple and efficient.

In addition, Baidu endorses it behind. Massive big data makes small assistants have congenital advantages, such as various group buying, map navigation, search engine and other services. Not to mention the excellent hardware HTC U11. The combination of the two can leave a good impression in the use experience. In a word, it is very grounded and suitable for Chinese people! Of course, it would be nice if the minor assistants could support more languages, such as Cantonese:- D

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