Baidu Launches Xiaodu Smart Display X8 with Revamped Features for Enriching Home Life
13 December 2019 - 5:42AM
Baidu, Inc. (NASDAQ: BIDU) on Thursday unveiled the Xiaodu Smart
Display X8, customized for the evolving needs of China’s households
with advanced AI-powered interaction capabilities and an enhanced
“Children’s Mode”.
The Xiaodu Smart Display X8 is equipped with a
suite of upgraded AI-powered functions that allow users to
interface seamlessly with the device, including full-duplex
continued conversation, far-field voice interaction, facial
recognition, hand gesture control, and eye gesture detection. The
X8 boasts an extensive new content services ecosystem for family
entertainment, which includes home feed, videos, live streaming,
music, games, and online education programs for children of
different ages. Intelligent interaction and user experience are
further enhanced through the X8’s built-in AI model evolution and
self-learning AI system, enabling the device to better understand
users’ preferences and anticipate their needs over time.
As a result of constant product innovation, the
Children’s Mode of the Xiaodu Smart Display X8 includes an
eye-protection function and an assistant function to help look
after children. The Children’s Mode uses facial recognition
technology to recognize when children are using the device and
protects them from inappropriate content, long screen time, and
proximity to the screen.
“China's smart speaker market is now larger than
the smart TV market, and smart speakers are gradually becoming a
necessity for Chinese households. The growth of the market in the
next three years will be driven by smart displays,” said Kun Jing,
Vice President of Baidu and General Manager of Baidu Smart Living
Group, at the X8 launch event at the Laoshe Teahouse in
Beijing.
“Intelligent interaction, intelligent
comprehension, and a new content services ecosystem are three
important elements for the development of smart displays,” he said,
noting that Baidu will continue to explore imaginative scenarios
for the future as a smart display pioneer.
The X8 has an 8-inch FullView IPS display, with a
1280x800 resolution and a viewing angle of 80 degrees from all
directions. The touchscreen supports five simultaneous touches and
responds within 10 milliseconds. The display is tilted at 105
degrees to make viewing more comfortable for users, and the device
is equipped with a high-performing 4 microphone array.
Baidu’s launch of the X8 comes on the heels of a
report on the “intelligence level” of devices recently issued by a
research unit of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), which
affirmed Baidu’s leading position in AI-powered smart devices. In
the report, the CAS’s R&D Center for Internet of Things
assessed the smart speaker products of China’s four largest
players, evaluating the “intelligence” of devices across three
distinct technological capabilities: automatic speech recognition,
natural language understanding, and content recommendation. The
corresponding indicators used to measure these capabilities were
“speech recognition”, “intent comprehension”, and user
satisfaction.
Xiaodu smart devices ranked as top performers
across all three indicators, scoring more than 90% in speech
recognition and comprehension rates, according to the report, which
constitutes the most authoritative review of China’s smart speaker
market published to date. The CAS is China’s leading academic
institution in the natural sciences, functioning as both the
national scientific think tank and academic governing body.
About BaiduBaidu, Inc. is the
leading Chinese language Internet search provider. Baidu aims to
make the complicated world simpler for users and enterprises
through technology. Baidu’s ADSs trade on the NASDAQ Global Select
Market under the symbol “BIDU.” Currently, ten ADSs represent one
Class A ordinary share.
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