Amazon Echo får kinesisk budgetkonkurrent
Den kinesiska smartphonetillverkaren Xiaomi tar upp striden med Apple och Amazon på marknaden för smarta högtalare. Det rapporterar CNBC.
Prislappen för den kinesiska högtalarna blir en bråkdel av de amerikanska konkurrenterna. Xiaomis Mi AI lanseras till priset 44 dollar, att jämföra med 349 dollar för Apples Homepod och 180 dollar för Amazon Echo.
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A virtual assistant is a software agent that can perform tasks or services for an individual. Sometimes the term "chatbot" is used to refer to virtual assistants generally or specifically those accessed by online chat (or in some cases online chat programs that are for entertainment and not useful purposes).
As of 2017, the capabilities and usage of virtual assistants is expanding rapidly, with new products entering the market. An online poll in May 2017 found the most widely used in the US were Apple's Siri (34%), Google Assistant (19%), Amazon Alexa (6%), and Microsoft Cortana (4%). Usage of the smart speakers powered by these assistants is radically different; Apple didn't even announce its smart speaker until June 2017. Facebook's M expected to be available to hundreds of millions on Facebook Messenger in 2017. Apple and Google have large installed bases of users on smartphones and Microsoft has a large installed base of Windows-based PCs (where Cortana works in addition to phones and smart speakers); meanwhile, Alexa was the first to get the ability to place online e-commerce orders, from Amazon.
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