Though the first smart speakers came our way from the West, China has
captured this technology and the concept very quickly. As a result, there are
too many similar devices designed by China-based companies. According to strategy
in 2019, there will be over 139 million smart speakers shipped in China.
Another research showed, the Xiaomi Xiao Ai smart speaker will lead the offline
store. In fact, the first-gen Xiaomi Xiao Ai speaker was released July 26,
2017. Today, at Xiaomi’s conference, the company uncovered a number of
much-awaited products as well as two new versions for its smart speaker series,
the Xiao Ai Speaker ‘Universal Remote Control Edition’ and Xiao Ai Speaker
‘PLAY’
The Xiaomi Xiao Ai smart speaker supports voice commands, QQ music
library, 600+ practical skills, massive quality audiobooks, etc. Both speakers
can be woken up by saying a single word of ‘Xiao Ai’. The Xiaomi Xiao Ai smart
speaker ‘PLAY’ is priced at 169 yuan ($24) and will be on sale at 0:00 on June
18. As for the ‘Universal Remote Control Edition’, it is priced at 199 yuan,
will be on sale at 10:00 am on June 12.
The price of the two speaker in India is around 169 yuan is Rs 1,700 and
the another one is 199 yuan in india is Rs 1,999.
A few days ago, Xiaomi’s official channel issued a statement saying that
according to the data of Aoweiyun.com, from January to April 2019, the
cumulative sales of Xiao Ai smart speakers and the monthly sales in March and
April of 2019 were the first in the Chinese market. At the same time, the data
from the Xiaomi data statistics platform shows that as of June 3, 2019, the
cumulative number of voice interactions of the Xiao Ai speaker series exceeded
10 billion.