If we think of virtual assistants, Amazon's Alexa certainly comes to mind, with which you can control your home automation as well as query it on weather, news, etc. Just a few days ago, Amazon presented the new lineup of products and services related to Alexa, including the new generation of Amazon Echo smart speakers, but many rely on Google Assistant for smart tasks.
These users will therefore be happy to know that Xiaomi has also dropped its ace, presenting its Xiaomi Mi Smart Speaker in India, which boasts the support of Google Assistant, challenging the Amazon giant with an attractive quality / price ratio that could dethrone. Alexa products.
This is a great news, considering that the fans of the Asian brand loudly pushed on the fact that Xiaomi brought a smart speaker with voice assistant that did not speak only Chinese outside the Chinese borders. In fact, the Xiaomi Mi Smart Speaker with its Google Assistant speaks many languages and also supports Chromecast. But it is also the audio quality to be appreciated, thanks to the compatibility with the DTS audio codec and a power of 12W.
Xiaomi Mi Smart Speaker arrives on the market with support for Google Assistant
We are faced with a speaker with dimensions equal to 151 x 131 x 104 mm, similar in design to Google Home with a weight of 853 grams. On the top we also find an LED light ring that lights up when the assistant listens to the commands, which makes it quite similar to Amazon Echo. As for the technical specifications, the sound quality is released by a 2,5-inch driver with 12W power, using a Texas Instruments Hi-Fi audio processor that allows the Xiaomi Mi Smart Speaker to reproduce the sound with DTS codec. . There are also two microphones capable of picking up our voice from any direction, which can possibly be disabled from the touch button panel.
At the moment nothing is known about the availability of the Mi Smart Speaker in other countries, but we hope that Xiaomi will soon make an official announcement about it.
Question: When I'm away from home, can I speak and listen through this speaker on my mobile phone, as if I were on the phone? (or others like it). To talk to an elderly mother, since the audio of the surveillance cameras is bad.