Shulou(Shulou.com)06/02 Report--

A year ago, almost at the same time that DuerOS announced its cooperation with Skyworth, Baidu also announced the upgrade of SLG, officially opening DuerOS to the Chinese home intelligent upgrade market, defined as a strategic goal and important market.

Within one year, Baidu's conversational artificial intelligence business continues to usher in platform upgrading, cooperation deepening and ecological iteration. The sold well of the small smart slightly series, to the continuous expansion of the market for smart devices connected to DuerOS by small assistants, prove that DuerOS is fulfilling the promise of SLG when it was founded.

Interestingly, exactly a year later, Baidu and Skyworth announced that they would deepen their partnership. And this node seems to be seen as a key milestone in Baidu DuerOS's family intelligence strategy.

On March 27, at the Spring Conference of Skyworth TV 2019, Skyworth officially released the world's first large-screen AIoT ecosystem-Skyworth Swaiot. Wang Zhiguo, Chairman and President of Skyworth RGB, announced at the meeting that Baidu and Skyworth Ecology will be fully integrated, and users will uniformly use the wake-up word of "small degree" to control Skyworth intelligent household appliances.

Obviously, when "small degree" becomes the only wake-up word for 8 million home appliances, it means a leap and deep dive between small assistant and DuerOS in the home smart market.

From behind this hard-won "small degree," we can see the market picture of conversational AI extension, the real value DuerOS brings to all walks of life, and even the rudiment of extensive intelligence in China's family market.

When we wake up a TV on a small scale, the scene is like a pearl at the top of the pyramid. Under this, an industrial transformation, an era of AI technology forward, thousands of industries of voice interaction iteration, are quiet, surging.

AI arrives at Home Market Deep Water:

The value and weight behind a small sound

Let's first understand why the deepening of cooperation with Skyworth, and the beginning of small degrees as the only wake-up word, can be regarded as a marker.

The answer lies in that behind this sound of "only small degree," there is a hidden Skyworth, as a mainstream appliance manufacturer, which has begun to fully trust the small assistant and DuerOS, willing to integrate all device function instructions into it, and completely introduce DuerOS ecosystem. Such a deep cooperative relationship is unprecedented in the field of home appliances in China. The reason why it can be achieved is, on the one hand, because DuerOS shows strong technical reliability and ultra-high ecological evolution speed, on the other hand, it also shows that the Chinese family market as a whole is undergoing internal and profound changes under the impact of conversational AI solutions brought by small assistants and DuerOS. From the case of deepening cooperation between DuerOS and Skyworth, we can clearly see the change of such a future trend:

1. The field of home appliances began to use conversational AI as the interactive spindle, and DuerOS can be used as a complete interactive function carrier. For AIoT matrix represented by large screen ecology, it is a process to adapt to complete manipulation of voice interaction. This requires testing technical strength, cultivating user habits, and forming effective and reliable industrial alliances. In Skyworth's feedback, we can conclude that such a process has basically been completed under the ability of a small assistant.

2. From home appliances to home AIoT matrix, home appliance manufacturers need the full help of conversational AI platform, and DuerOS is the best choice. Home appliance market is the main axis of home intelligence, and AI interaction is the core channel for home appliance manufacturers to upgrade their experience. On this track, DuerOS has proven to be the most available and ecologically open Android in the AI era through integration from technology to industrial capabilities and industrial collaboration capabilities.

3. DuerOS officially moved from technology integrator to a brand-new positioning of home intelligent assistant. In the initial industrial cooperation, the small assistant is more to provide a variety of technical capabilities, and when the ecology, skills and experience of the small degree grow step by step, the collaborators begin to hope that the small degree will move to the front desk and become a real family assistant. This change is significant, Skyworth's choice, I believe, is only the beginning.

Behind these trends, DuerOS has proven its development value, ecological value, technical capability and high availability to the industry.

If you open this layer of value, you will find that behind a small degree, Baidu AI technology and AI people's thousands of hits.

A small sound,

Carrying the full power of Chinese conversational AI

Starting from the industrial significance of deepening cooperation with Skyworth, looking to the lower level, we will find that only DuerOS can achieve such in-depth cooperation in the field of home appliances today. And by extension, you'll find that's true in a lot of industries. Why is that?

The answer lies in the fact that a small sound may seem simple, but it actually hides a lot of technical solution ability and scene application value. When manufacturers are willing to provide their own AI portal to DuerOS, they are essentially choosing to believe in the fastest and most patient runners in China's conversational AI technology for several years.

With first-mover advantage and rapid technological evolution and ecological evolution, DuerOS has shown a leading position in five areas in the industry today:

1. The smallest brain capacity can be played

Up to now, DuerOS has been able to realize 10 categories of functions such as audio-visual entertainment, information inquiry, chat leisure, life service, smart home, travel road condition, practical tools, mobile phone instructions, personal assistant, knowledge education, etc., and the skills mastered cover 15 types of life service, children's parent-child, video resources, leisure entertainment, etc.

From functional support, scenario application value, to knowledge reserves and other fields, DuerOS 3.0 has been highly advanced in the industry, creating an experience aggregate that integrates Baidu's AI technology, combines with functions, content and skills, and is three-dimensionally embodied in the family application space.

2. Light of Chinese goods in AI voice field

In voice interaction capabilities. DuerOS has the best performance in Chinese world in hard core technologies such as far-field recognition, deep semantic understanding and multi-round dialogue. These capabilities all point to the core problem of conversational AI: the consumer app experience. Can hear, can understand, can chat, small assistant "three can" behind, is Baidu AI technology height direct embodiment.

3. Engineering and product integration capabilities

DuerOS is not a collection of algorithms, but breeds high-intensity product engineering capabilities, which can be close to various equipment application scenarios and combined with terminals such as home, vehicle, mobile devices and robots. At present, the small assistant can control more than 70 million smart home devices of more than 85 brands, more than 20 hardware solutions, and more than 5 new devices equipped with DuerOS every month. Flexibility and reliability in engineering is a necessary condition for AI to enter reality, and it is also a stepping stone for DuerOS to enter thousands of industries and thousands of households.

4. Integrated ecological construction of software and hardware

Small intelligent slightly series, small assistant/DuerOS enabling industry scene, family intelligent dual-engine strategy, so that SLG has a unique advantage accumulation channel in application feedback, market brand and cooperation relationship control. Soft experience complements each other, allowing DuerOS to enter the home ecosystem in an advantageous position for dual-core operations.

5. Imaginative AI voice developer ecosystem

Around DuerOS, 27,000 developers have started their own skills and application development journey, and at the development level, only DuerOS has entered this deep water area due to the high entry barrier. The feedback of development value also enables ecological cooperation to be better developed.

These leads led to the "call for small control television," which a few years ago would have been a bit of science fiction. And the birth of the trend is a small ecological water vein that is entering thousands of households.

From a small voice to thousands of households

AI era is by no means an era of isolation and monopoly. AI, as a bottom tool, can only maximize its value when combined with numerous commercial entities, industrial realities of thousands of industries, and countless creative developers. Baidu, which won the AI era, laid out the ecology of AI in many ways.

One of the main threads is DuerOS. Cooperation with Skyworth can be seen as a new height for DuerOS. And this is just one of the peaks of the conversational AI ecosystem that DuerOS has created. Below sea level, DuerOS ecology has been widely distributed, and the ecological thickness of multiple systems is superimposed, outlining the ability to serve millions of Chinese families and the value of becoming the intelligent hub of Chinese families.

Behind the product and technical capabilities, we can see that in a broader layout, DuerOS exhibits the only characteristic of the conversational AI industry: ecological integrity.

This ecological integrity can be viewed in several ways.

1. Activate the equipment to arrive at the singularity area, and the small degree in thousands of households is undergoing qualitative change. By the end of last year, the number of smart devices equipped with DuerOS had exceeded 200 million. This quantity is already quite objective, and the resulting ecological value and experience integrity can already inspire consumers to have a new understanding and imagination of intelligent life experience.

2. The main scenes are well built to prove the availability of all walks of life. The complete establishment of terminal forms such as home appliances, mobile phones, automobiles and intelligent hardware, as well as the ability connection of education, entertainment, life services and other industries, have made DuerOS 'industry access interface present three-dimensional characteristics.

3. The number and quality of ecological partners have reached a considerable height, the cooperation volume has maintained rapid growth, and the cooperation mode has been continuously deepened. At present, the number of DuerOS partners has exceeded 300, and more than 160 master devices equipped with DuerOS have been launched, and more and more partners have begun to choose to deepen the cooperation mode with DuerOS and explore common innovations based on existing cooperation. This is the key to maintaining the rapid and benign development of "small-scale ecology."

4. More and more partners are willing to let Xiaodu become a "spokesperson," and Xiaodu constantly moves from the technical level to the service center. There is reason to believe that Skyworth's setting of "small degree" as the only wake-up word is only the beginning, and the brand and ecological value of small degree in the future will empower more partners.

These ecological cooperation clues are jointly advancing a goal: a small wake-up sound is accelerating into thousands of households. In the next step, we are likely to see several changes in the field of home intelligence: small degrees gradually grow into personal assistants; voice interaction becomes a common way of communication in Chinese families;DuerOS eco-derived explosive applications.

From a line of code to a small degree, a huge conversational AI ecological forest has been established.

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