I. Foreword: The 2018 Most Fighting 4 Smart Speakers are all in full! 
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The tech circle has a new trend every year. It was a smart phone 10 years ago, a tablet 8 years ago, a wearable device 4 years ago, and artificial intelligence 2 years ago. This year, there is no doubt that it's all over the world—especially China - the smart speaker.
According to market research organization Canalys data, 2018Q1 global smart speakers increased by 200% year-on-year, of which China's smart speaker market growth reached a rare 5370%, smart speaker shipments reached 1.8 million units, China became the world's second only to the United States The second largest smart speaker market.
The development of smart speakers in China can be described with rapid development. Before 2017, there was no concept of smart speakers in the country. In the following year, the domestic smart speaker market suddenly accelerated, BAT urgently entered the market, and smart speaker products flourished. It was born the first domestic smart phone product with over one million shipments.
Moreover, with the price of smart speakers rushing into the thousand or less, for consumers, the question “shouldn't buy smart speakers†becomes “what intelligent speaker to buy.â€
In order to find out the answer to this question, here we have gotten the 4 most popular smart speaker products on the market. They are the Tmall Genie X1, the Little Panther AI speaker, the millet AI speaker and the small degree at home. Take a look at what A more suitable for you.
Second, the appearance of contrast: 3 plastic 1 metal Leopard AI speaker exclusive
Tmall Elf X1, Little Leopard AI Speaker and Millet AI Speaker Three speakers all use traditional cylindrical speaker design; while the small degree at home because of more than a screen, so the use of a similar tablet computer modeling.
From left to right, they are the Tmall Genie X1, the millet AI speaker, the Little Leopard AI speaker and the small degree at home. The design of the 4 speakers is still very different from the specific details.
Among them, the Tmall Elf X1 has the smallest body. Compared with the solid color design, it also makes it the lowest-key speaker among the four. This design benefit is not placed in the home.
And millet AI speaker is the highest one of the four, the lower part of the punctual design makes it look very much like millet's another product - millet air purifier.
As for the Leopard AI speakers, it is a very standard cylinder. The round-headed brain design reminds us of the classic Mac Pro "trash can" shape. From the subsequent tests, the Leopard AI speakers can really take up the Pro. The name.
As for the small degree at home, because of one more screen, the front of the speaker has a square design, with the front half placed on the screen and the lower half covered with a cloth net cover.
The top of the 4 speakers, in order to facilitate user operation, 4 speakers have placed the operable area on the top of the speaker. Among them, Tmall Elf X1 and Xiaodu only support click operation at home; Xiaomi AI speaker adds sliding operation (zoom in/out volume) on this basis; and Leopard AI speaker has the most abundant function and supports gesture operation.
Tmall Elf X1's body details, the fuselage uses a splicing design, the upper half is a matte plastic material, the lower half of the dust cover for the speaker, in the middle there is a dot pattern of the Lynx Logo.
Millet AI speaker body details, is also very simple plastic body design, only the front of the matrix sound hole and a millet LOGO, is almost a small version of the millet air purifier.
The front of the Leopard AI speaker is different from the smart speaker of the same price, which is different from the fabric net cover. A metal net cover surrounds the Leopard AI sound box tightly, and it takes a solid sense of security.
The small front of the fuselage at home, compared to other smart speakers, a small degree of dust at home as a design of the main element of the net cover, covering all areas except the screen, the texture of the cloth texture The touch is also quite good, but the cloth cover of such a large area also brings with it the ability to withstand the wear and tear of daily use.
It can be seen that most smart speakers use plastic materials due to their cost, and only Leopard AI speakers use metal materials.
Third, the sound quality comparison: contrast is no suspense it is the sound quality of the smart speaker
For many fans, the sound quality is a very metaphysical thing. The popular “heat and water and electricity†joke is not only a ridicule of this craft, but also exposes people’s overly subjective problems with sound perception.
However, there is no such problem in the smart speaker body, because the intelligent speaker's overly rudimentary hardware causes most of the product's audio quality to linger at the level of “listen to a ringâ€, such as the millet AI speaker and the Tmall Elf X1, which has only a single speaker design...
Among these four products, only the Leopard AI speakers used two 5-inch loudspeakers with 0.6-inch tweeters + 2.5-inch subwoofers and 2 bass radiators. With excellent sound quality hardware, Leopard AI speakers also put forward the slogan of “sound quality of smart speaker industryâ€.
What about the actual performance of the 4 smart speakers? Here, the author selected three classic songs, "The California Hotel," "One I Love," and "Millennium," to test their performance.
1, sound quality comparison
--"California hotel"
The California Hotel is a classic audition song. Its classic opening three drums and Tsai Qin's deep and deep female voice are the best questions to test the low frequency performance of headphones.
Tmall Elf X1: The overall performance is quite satisfactory. The overly flat high and low frequencies make the sound between different instruments slightly turbid. Occasionally, the instrumental sound may cover the song.
Leopard AI speakers: Thanks to the 5 speaker design, the Leopard AI speaker's low volume is full, and if the station is close enough, it can even feel the vibration of the bass. The degree of separation between the instruments is also far enough. The singing voice is not suppressed by the background sound, and the sound is more transparent.
Millet AI speakers: Basic can be ignored high and low frequency performance, too flat tone, poor separation, can be said millet AI speaker is the performance of the 4 speakers in the worst one.
At home at a small degree: At home in a small hotel in California, the performance is good, clear separation of instruments and vocals, there is a certain distance, but the low-frequency submarine is not enough, less a sense of rudder, limiting the expression of music.
- "One I Love"
The classic female test tracks, because it is the girls cappella, so it is better to test the details of the headset.
Tmall Elf X1: female details are more comprehensive and more detailed reduction, but the low frequency dive is insufficient, the female voice lacks ups and downs, the overall slightly flat.
Leopard AI speakers: Under the interpretation of Leopard AI speakers, the vocal sounds, saliva sounds and sounds of the singer Meav are all restored in sound, and the sound details are quite rich. The sound is transparent, crisp, and seamless, and you can close your eyes. You can imagine the lips of Meav's lip in front of the microphone as the song does not break.
Millet AI speakers: The sound details are basically restored, but the timbre is too pale and soft.
Little at home: The performance was somewhat unexpected. The details of the female voice were rich, the tone of the teeth was clear, the sound of saliva was faithfully restored, and the overall performance was quite outstanding.
- "Millennium elegance"
Zhou Zilei's "Millennium Beauty" is a pure music based on the Ocarina. The long Ocarina is a test of the reverberation and extensibility of the headphones.
Tmall Elf X1: Tmall Elf X1's performance as always, sound loud enough, there are some low-frequency dive, but the cramped hardware still limits its performance, high and low frequencies are a bit difficult, lack of tension, reverberation processing law-abiding.
Leopard AI Speaker: When Leopard AI speaker is playing, the drum sound at the beginning can obviously feel the sense of transients, and thanks to its outstanding low frequency performance, the ocarina's reverberation is well restored, and the processing is not loose and long enough. And there is no feeling of dragging water.
Millet AI speakers: As before, the performance of millet AI speakers is basically at the level of “can hearâ€. The sound of a pale plane and the reverberation of flutes are basically a tone.
Little at home: still continued a relatively good performance, the first transient sound drums, Ocarina reverberation processing is also very good, but the residual sound of the low-frequency processing is not tight enough, slightly loose.
There was a small episode in the sound quality comparison. Originally, the author selected the classic "River" + "Drum poetry" to test the performance of the 4 people, but the two music minors had no copyright at home and had to say that some of them were at home. The popular music resources are really scarce...
You can see 4 speakers, the Leopard AI speaker sound quality is the best, a small degree at home is also quite good, suitable for listening to some Alto female voice, Lynx Wizard X1 performance is basically qualified, millet AI speakers are no sound quality at all .
2, speaker loudness contrast
Here we set the 4 speakers to 100% volume and play the same music for loudness test.
From top to bottom are Tmall Elf X1 (about 103db), Leopard AI speaker (about 106db), Millet AI speaker (about 94db), and Little at home (about 99db).
It can be seen intuitively that the loudness of the Leopard AI speakers with a five-speaker design is the highest of the four smart speakers, followed by the Tmall Elf X1 and the Xiaodu at home, and the millet AI speakers are the smallest.
3, wake up distance comparison
As a smart product using voice operations, the most impact on practicality is undoubtedly the wake-up response rate, which involves two issues, one is how to wake up, and the other is how much sound can wake up.
The awakening words of the four smart speakers are very simple. They are "Tmall Elf", "Leopard Leopard", "Little Love Classmate" and "Small Degree Little Degree". Wake up is possible. How much sound can wake up? ?
For this reason, the author performed a wake-up test at a distance of 1m/3m/5m from the speaker to find out how much volume can be used to wake up the speakers at different distances.
The actual experience of the test down, the slightest degree of awakening at home the most relaxed, the best sound effects, at a distance of 5 meters with a lighter volume to speak to wake up; Little Leopard AI speakers and Lynx X1 normal volume at 5 meters away Wake up; millet AI speaker performance is the worst.
Fourth, the experience of contrast: 4 speakers each show supernatural powers Orion star half alone
In the hands of the author, these four speakers are equipped with different intelligent voice systems, among which the Lynx Genie X1 is equipped with Ali's intelligent voice assistant AliGenie, while Xiaodu's at home uses Baidu's own Duer OS.
As for the Leopard AI speakers, the Orion Voice OS was used by Cheetah Mobile. We may not be familiar with this name, but the small love AI speakers (including MIUI's voice assistant) used the Orion voice os. Tts and asr technology, and you can also find Orion Voice OS on the Himalayan Xiaoya speakers and the beautiful Xiaomei speakers.
Orion Voice OS is also the largest open system in smart speakers. With its openness advantage, Orion Voice OS has achieved a very impressive installed capacity. The number of on-demand games exceeds 10 million times per day and will include Foxconn and hammer in the future. Manufacturers plan to launch smart products based on it.
What about the system software experience of these 4 speakers?
1, resource comparison
- Comparison of music resources
Although most of today's smart speakers have publicly claimed that they have millions or even 10 million levels of music libraries, the most important thing is that users actually can find their favorite songs in the actual experience.
In this regard, the author made a simple comparison. The 10 most popular new songs were selected from the Chinese Music New Song list to test the musical resources of 4 speakers (as of June 6, 2018).
It can be seen that in the 10 new songs, only two songs from the Little Leopard AI and the Milli AI speakers can't be searched, while there are 3 small speakers, and there are more than 4 songs without copyright in the Lynx X1.
The number of music resources is undoubtedly based on copyright. Both Leopard AI speakers and Xiaomi AI speakers belonging to the Orion Voice OS have the largest music copyright platform QQ music support in China, and copyright music is more natural.
It is worth mentioning that among the 4 smart speakers, only the Leopard AI speakers have been provided with QQ music service for 2 years. It seems that the Leopard AI speakers are not only playing sound quality but also ignoring the user's music playback experience.
- Comparison of sound resources
Just like music resources, here I have selected ten sound resources that I often listen to, including comics, storytelling, audio books, jokes, radio, children's books, and English content to test the richness of resources of the four speakers (as of 2018). Month 6).
It can be seen that in the 10 types of commonly used audio resource tests, the Leopard AI speakers continued their own advantages in resources. After 9 tests, the remaining 3 speakers passed only 8 tests.
It is also important to note that many of the resources at home are played through video instead of audio.
2. Feature introduction
As usual, it is time to introduce the AI ​​experience of the 4 smart speakers. However, since these 4 products have been released for a long time, this site has also done a detailed evaluation of the Tmall Genie X1, Leopard AI speakers and millet AI speakers.
And from the author's actual experience, the experience of these four speakers in the implementation of daily voice instructions is not very different, AI contrast test is also affected by the actual scene (such as smart home control), so we did not perform a special depth comparison test Comparison test.
However, here is a brief introduction of the Tmall Elf X1, Leopard AI speakers and small home exclusive features.
——Tmall Elf X1 and Taobao Shopping
Since the Lynx Genie X1 is a smart speaker produced by Ali, naturally it will do everything possible to facilitate the user's hand. Tmall Elf X1 supports Alipay voiceprint payment, which can be paid by voice. Specifically, currently Tmall Genie X1 can realize voice shopping, voice shopping (Tmall supermarket), and voice delivery.
—— Leopard AI Speaker and Wechat Payment
With a hard enough “backstage†Alipay payment, it is definitely the Tmall Elves monopoly. Only this one. So other speakers can't do voice payment? Not!
Leopard AI speaker won the WeChat payment! It became the first smart speaker to support WeChat payment. This is more surprising. After all, as the trump card of Tencent, the author originally thought that this feature would first appear in the Tencent smart speaker.
In order to meet the payment function, Leopard AI speakers also have built-in voiceprint recognition, which can accurately identify the identity of the speaker. This is also a few speakers in the domestic intelligent speaker with voiceprint recognition function.
- Small home video features
Xiaodu is at home with Baidu and Xiaoyu at home to launch a smart speaker with a screen. The small fish at home is a company that focuses on remote video calling robots.
With the help of Xiaoyu at home, Xiaodu has natural remote video functions in addition to his smart speaker's position. He can make video calls at a low level in his home app or dial a mobile number directly, which is very convenient.
Fifth, power consumption comparison: Small degree of power consumption at home Leopard AI speaker energy ratio is the highest
Speakers, especially smart speakers, as an Allways Online household appliances, need 24 hours of uninterrupted plug-in networking, so its power consumption is very important, then the power consumption of these 4 smart speakers performance?
As a comparison, the authors tested the power consumption of the four smart speakers under pure standby and 100% volume playback music, as follows:
- Pure standby power
From top to bottom are Tmall Elf X1 (2-3W or so), Leopard AI speaker (2-3W or so), Millet AI speaker (2-2.5W or so), and Little at home (4-5W or so).
The highest standby power consumption is undoubtedly the small degree of multi-screen drag at home, standby power consumption is stable over 4W, and the remaining 3 power consumption are in the 2-3W level.
In terms of conversion, the small households consume electricity once a day (average 4.5W) for 9 days at home; the other three speakers consume only 1 day (average 2.5W) on average for 16 days. In terms of standby alone, the Tmall Genie X1, Leopard AI speakers and millet AI speakers are undoubtedly more power-efficient.
- 100% volume playback music power
From top to bottom are Tmall Elf X1 (4W or so), Leopard AI speaker (4-5W or so), Millet AI speaker (3.5-4.5W or so), and Little at home (5-6W or so).
Xiaodu once again won the first place in the home of the most power-hungry smart speakers, while the millet AI speakers brought the lowest power consumption with a small volume (94.5db).
In particular, it is worth mentioning that the Leopard AI speaker has the largest volume among the 4 smart speakers, but the power consumption is still maintained below 5W. It can be seen that the energy consumption of the Leopard AI speakers is quite outstanding.
Six, summary: 4 speakers have their own unique but the best value of only one
Not much nonsense, first concluded that from the test can clearly see the performance of the 4 smart speakers in the basic functions of sound quality, volume, resources, power consumption:
Sound quality, Leopard AI speakers with hardware on the advantages of rolling without suspense to get five stars, after all, 5 speakers on the single speaker, this result is also expected, the Leopard AI speakers worthy of playing the sound quality of the name .
As for the richness of music/voice resources, because of the access to QQ music, the Leopard AI speakers and millet AI speakers all have a good amount of resources; while the Tmall Elf X1 is backed by Ali's big tree and can also use shrimp music. Meet daily needs.
The resources for the small degree at home are vacant. Although the new songs are rich in resources, some of the unpopular music resources are often lacking on a large scale. Tsai Chin's "Fishou" is not. Mr. Yan Xuemin has only 2 tracks to play, and the "California Hotel" is even Need to search online through QQ music to play.
As for the price, currently the Tmall Genie X1 is priced at 499 yuan, and the Leopard AI speaker is priced at 699 yuan (Jindong 618 offers 200 yuan during the period, and the actual price is 499 yuan). The millet AI speaker costs 299 yuan, while the small home priced at 599 yuan. yuan.
Millet AI speaker price is undoubtedly the lowest, but its performance is also perfectly consistent with its price, readers do not expect it to bring beyond the price experience.
As for the rest of the three smart speakers, the price is about 500 yuan, which is similar to that of the reader. According to their actual needs, the reader needs to judge the most suitable product for them.
For example, some users usually use smart speakers just to listen to music/audio resources, then the Leopard AI speakers with the best sound quality are the most suitable for your smart speakers.
If you have a child or an old person in your home and you have communication needs, you may consider taking care of the product at home. In fact, a child at home is more like a remote video robot than a traditional smart speaker.
In terms of the product itself, the Leopard AI speaker is indeed the most valued product among the four speakers. It not only brings a sound quality that is not inferior to that of the thousands of speakers in the 499 yuan, but also possesses the current intelligence of the Orion Voice OS that it owns. The most resources in the speaker, plus two years of QQ music service is also very affordable.
Well, this time the smart speaker Hengping is here, what opinions and suggestions are available to all readers in the comments, everyone will see you again next time.
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