While Google's position in China has eased over the years, it is clear that linguistic or cultural barriers or the lack of additional hardware make the functionality offered by the web search giant limited, but also by Amazon's Alexa and Apple's Siri.
Xiaomi he knows this well, and therefore has decided to develop a solution that bears the name of Xiao AI, which the Chinese company introduced 2017 with its own in July We're AI Speaker. Xiao Ai is the voice assistant that is integrated also in the very recent Mi Mix 2S, and that promises to bring the same features offered by competitors, even in China could definitely do better.
In just eight months Xiao AI has been consulted 1,1 billions of times, exploited 11 million times a day and given commands for smart devices 310000 times. Xiaomi Mi AI Speaker became in poco time the fulcrum of a smart home and increasingly home automation thanks to support for over 40 products.
Now Xiaomi shows us in a video the potentialities offered by his voice assistant Xiao Ai, who in a sense, it winks at Google's assistant, to emulate the colored bars in receiving the commands. We can interrogate Xiao AI about the weather, ask about traffic conditions, remind us of the reminders and appointments but also provide us with the latest news. We can control a series of home appliances Like Mi TV, Mi TV Box, Mi Robot Vacuum, the air blowtorch, the pot cook rice or induction plate, the RGB bulbs and much more simply with a voice command.
In addition, through accessories such as Mi Smart Plug and Mi Smart Power Strip, appliances without smart functionality can be controlled via Mi Speaker AI or the smartphone that integrates the assistant Xiao AI. Unfortunately, availability and functionality are relegated to China, but Xiaomi has recently signed one partnership with Microsoft to bring Mi AI Speaker with Cortana to foreign markets globallyso hope is the last to die
