On June 26, Rokid held the 2018 Rokid Jungle Conference in Hangzhou. This is the first large-scale public event since Rokid was founded four years ago. The founder and CEO Misa (Zhu Mingming) released three new heavyweight products at the meeting: Rokid Me portable smart speaker, KAMINO18 AI voice dedicated chip and the new Rokid Glass AR glasses.
Rokid Me
Rokid Me
The Rokid Me smart speaker adopts the aviation aluminum integrated body and double-sided arc design. The front mesh structure is also the speaker opening. The mesh structure and aviation aluminum material are divided into two parts through the rubber ring in the middle of the body. The machine has four different colors: silver, pink, blue and purple.
In terms of content cooperation, Rokid Me supports the exclusive on-demand broadcast of 100 million programs in Himalayas, and QQ Music's 10 million level music library listens for free. It is officially announced that Rokid Me has more than 130 million legitimate content support.
In terms of configuration, Ruoqi voice assistant and six microphone arrays are built into the machine. The official claims that the machine can realize 360 degree 5~10 meter far field pickup. The position of array microphone is very close to the speaker of the speaker box. But Ruoqi official said that this is the unique feature of Rokid Me. Even so, the speaker and microphone will not affect each other. The 4000mAh battery is built in the body, and the official said it can guarantee continuous use of more than 8 hours. This Rokid Me is equipped with four unique functions: voiceprint recognition (only listen to the recorded voiceprint voice), shake and shake to cut songs, reverse pause and voice text game.
The official price of Rokid Me is 799 yuan. The product will be pre purchased at the official website store of Rokid Me and the official WeChat store at 16:00 on June 26, and sold through all channels (Tmall, JD, official website and offline stores) on July 26. All Rokid Me users can get 2 years of QQ music service for free, and those who participate in the pre order can also enjoy the exclusive rights of Himalayan Summit members for an additional year.
KAMINO18
In addition to Rokid Me, this time Rokid also released a special SoC chip for smart speakers - KAMINO18. KAMINO18 is a SoC chip specially customized for smart speakers. It not only integrates ARM CPU, NPU, DSP, DDR, DAC and other core components, but also integrates array microphone.
According to the official introduction, KAMINO18 can fully support the two major product areas of smart speakers and children's story telling machines.
In combination with Rokid's latest algorithm, phased array technology, CTC model, user-defined wake-up words, offline voice commands, low-power wake-up and other algorithms, the power consumption of products equipped with KAMINO18 can be reduced by 30% - 50% under the working condition of the whole machine. The performance in complex scenarios has been greatly improved and can support more offline functions.
The official of Ruoqi also stressed that the overall cost of this AI chip is more than 30% lower than that of the mainstream general chip scheme in the market, which is very suitable for some current smart speakers with price performance ratio.
Himalayan FM announced that it has officially established strategic partnership with Rokid. The Himalayan children's smart speaker Xiaoya Mini is also about to become an external product using Rokid KAMINO18.
Rokid Glass
Following the first public appearance of Rokid Glass AR glasses prototype at CES 2018 in January this year, after more than five months of research and development, the full version of Rokid Glass was officially unveiled at this Rokid Jungle press conference.
The new version of Rokid Glass continues the integrated design of the prototype, with the overall volume reduced by 40%, and uses alloy frames to replace the previous plastic materials. In terms of ergonomics, the official said that Rokid Glass can adapt to the head shape and pupil spacing of more than 90% of users, and the adsorption correction lens can also enable myopic users to wear normally. The overall weight of Rokid Glass is 120g, only 1/4 of that of Microsoft HoloLens.
In terms of configuration, Rokid Glass is equipped with Snapdragon 835 SoC, 4 GB memory+64 GB storage, 13 million pixel optical anti shake camera, inertial sensor and array microphone.
In terms of functions, Rokid Glass can customize and install various development kits, which can be widely used in indoor/outdoor navigation, offline shopping, social networking, remote assistance, tourism, exhibition, education, industry 4.0 and other industries and occasions. It can be used for face recognition in social, security, medical and other fields; Support AR map navigation, product recognition and object recognition. Rokid official said that through Wi Fi positioning technology, accurate positioning within one meter of the business district can be achieved, and the pain point of indoor navigation in the supermarket can be solved.
In this press conference, Rokid did not officially announce the final price of Rokid Glass, which will be officially put into mass production by the end of this year.
