Suning XiaoBiu speaker experience: The AI ​​assistant that answers questions fluently also helps you remember the answers to all your questions

The rise of artificial intelligence has made the smart speaker industry, which is closest to users' real lives and most easily accessible to ordinary consumers, increasingly popular.

After many domestic Internet manufacturers followed the footsteps of Amazon and Google and set off a melee in the smart speaker industry in 2017, Suning also followed the trend and joined the battle with the XiaoBiu speaker at the beginning of this year.

However, what is unexpected is that Suning XiaoBiu speaker, as a latecomer in the industry, created a buying frenzy on the Suning.com online platform at the beginning of its launch. Within just two hours, more than 20,000 product orders were completed and paid for. As a result, to this day, XiaoBiu speakers are still "out of stock" in many areas.

So, what kind of attraction does it have that makes Suning XiaoBiu speaker so popular?

The rounded and friendly design language emphasizes portability more than similar products.

As a pioneer in the smart speaker category, the earlier launch of Amazon Echo seems to have directly laid the foundation for the mainstream design ideas of many smart speaker products today. Its appearance is like a tall thermos cup, and it needs to be plugged into a power socket at all times, which has gradually become a common feature of products created by many manufacturers.

But the feeling given by Suning XiaoBiu speaker is obviously more lively and youthful. The rounded body with two sections concentrates the speaker grille in the lower half of the product. Combined with the cartoon-style "XiaoBiu" logo on the side, it creates a rounded and friendly appearance without losing its characteristics, which can be matched with various home environments.

What is more worth mentioning is the small and agile size of Suning XiaoBiu speaker, with dimensions of 83mm*83mm*95mm and a weight of 318g, which makes it effortless for young ladies to hold it in their hands.

Intuitively, if most smart speaker products are singing "thermos cups", then Suning XiaoBiu speaker is almost the same as a small disposable paper cup that does not take up space no matter from which angle you look at it.

However, although it is small, Suning XiaoBiu speaker has everything. In addition to the built-in 52mm full-range speaker and various internal components that support DuerOS 2.0 voice recognition and artificial intelligence functions, it is also equipped with a 3000mAh large-capacity lithium battery. The official claims that it can achieve 6 hours of battery life without a power source.

Taking into account many factors such as product appearance and built-in battery, compared to other smart speakers that can only be placed in fixed locations at home, Suning XiaoBiu can really accompany you while walking and playing outdoors.

At the same time, Suning XiaoBiu speaker is rare in the industry, as it is a smart speaker with physical buttons on the top and bottom of the machine.

In terms of button function planning, Suning XiaoBiu speaker places the commonly used mute, pause/play song, and volume adjustment buttons on the top of the product within easy reach, and adds a breathing light ring around the buttons to display the working status of the device.

As for the buttons that are not often used, such as network settings and power on and off, they are arranged on the bottom that is invisible when the speaker is standing. It can be seen that while ensuring the comprehensive functions of the machine, Suning XiaoBiu speaker has optimized the layout of physical buttons to the greatest extent within the effective product appearance utilization range.

A full-featured smart speaker that quietly records what you say

Although at first glance, Suning may not be a company with particularly experience in the field of smart speakers, but thanks to its cooperation with Baidu DuerOS and Suning's strong layout in smart retail and artificial intelligence in recent times, in the end, Suning XiaoBiu speaker is not inferior to other members in the industry in terms of functionality and has made its own characteristics.

In the mobile phone app that comes with Suning XiaoBiu speaker, you can see that Suning XiaoBiu speaker can achieve the voice control smart home and voice shopping functions that are common in current smart speaker products. At the same time, with the support of Baidu Music's massive genuine high-quality music library, you can listen to up to 20 million popular songs whenever you want.

In terms of human-computer voice interaction, which better reflects the characteristics of artificial intelligence, Suning XiaoBiu speaker directly lists all the questions that can be fed back in the App. As for the types of questions covered, it is obviously surprising.

These include asking about time, weather, and voice-controlled smart appliances, which are of concern to everyone in life. It can also help you query sports game data, horoscopes, celebrity information, idioms and allusions, and even national geography and translation of words and sentences between different languages. The complete and precise dialogue performance makes people impressed when using the Suning XiaoBiu speaker.

Of course, the more ingenious design is that when you communicate with the Suning XiaoBiu speaker, the corresponding mobile phone app will quietly record every sentence.

For example, after looking up idioms, rare characters or English words, you can copy the content of the previous voice communication in the form of text and apply it to other apps and texts, and use the Suning XiaoBiu speaker as a tool to improve productivity.

In addition, Suning XiaoBiu speaker's feedback on the questions it answered was also quite accurate. For example, when asked a question that took two detours, such as "Jay Chou's wife's ex-boyfriend", Suning XiaoBiu speaker still clearly knew who it was referring to.

Overall, although this is Suning’s first attempt in the field of smart speakers, the completion and ease of use of Suning XiaoBiu speaker have reached a very high level. Coupled with its cartoon-style appearance, it also constitutes an external plus point for the product.

Therefore, as long as you are used to the slightly difficult-to-pronounce wake-up word "Xiaobiu Xiaobiu", then Suning XiaoBiu, priced at 299 yuan, is undoubtedly a very cost-effective choice to help you start your smart voice life.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.