What can smart speakers do? Chat, check the weather, when the alarm, control the lights, voice orders, playing Uber ... ... these are people based on artificial intelligence words to its imagination. But perhaps, it should first do one thing is to play music in an intelligent way. This may be seen from Amazon's Amazon Music Unlimited music streaming service to see the specific form.
Will play the Amazon music service
Amazon Music Unlimited, from the name of the Amazon company with another service Amazon Kindle Unlimited a bit like, but the latter is the specific product is Kindle e-book. In the specific business model, are through the monthly price to get a set of corresponding services.
The difference is that the Amazon Kindle e-book is almost a dominance; and in the music streaming media market, Amazon to face opponents, including Spotify, Apple Music and Google Play Music, the three are behind the two are giants Of the relatively independent Spotify strength should not be overlooked.
Since it is a music service, Amazon must first solve the problem of music library. At present, Amazon Music Unlimited already has tens of millions of music. Amazon's solution is simple, is the signing of the world's three major record companies, plus hundreds of independent small music company. Similar to the three competitors mentioned above, Silver Wing Amazon Music Unlimited has also added a smart recommendation algorithm to music that combines machine recommendations with manual recommendations.
Amazon has launched applications for this service on various platforms, including Android, iOS, Sonos, Windows desktop and Amazon's own Fire tablet. And Amazon will also be applied to the interface was redesigned, whether it is fonts, navigation bar and other interface adjustment, or intelligent download and other functions, are to allow users to get a better listening experience.
However, in addition to the above, Amazon Music Unlimited biggest feature is that it can be combined with the Amazon Echo smart speakers. After the combination of the two, the user can directly through the voice to select music; However, the choice is not just the artist name, album name, music style so simple.
Through the Alexa intelligent assistant, Echo can also be the age of music, music, lyrics, music, emotional expression to identify. A typical example is that Echo will be able to respond automatically as required if the user plays Echo's "U2 band's music" after Echo. And the more people, Echo will be more intelligent.
In addition, Amazon Music Unlimited also provides an interesting little feature Side by Side; this feature can be displayed next to a particular music singer on the music related notes. There are not many singers who are currently involved in this feature, but are still growing.
Echo and Alexa
Echo as a speaker, all of its interactions are based on human voice input and speaker output. But the presence of Alexa, so that Echo can complete, including playing music, query the weather, set the alarm, a button under the orders and many other features; through these features, Echo will be able to well occupy a place in the family scene.
From the perspective of interaction, voice is also the most convenient way of interaction, especially in the family life scene. Amazon's precise positioning and effective excavation of this scene is also the reason why Echo's sales are increasing. Data show that as of April this year, Amazon Echo's sales have exceeded 300 million units, of which only last year's holiday sales season to sell more than 100 million units.
Will play the Amazon music service
Amazon Music Unlimited, from the name of the Amazon company with another service Amazon Kindle Unlimited a bit like, but the latter is the specific product is Kindle e-book. In the specific business model, are through the monthly price to get a set of corresponding services.
The difference is that the Amazon Kindle e-book is almost a dominance; and in the music streaming media market, Amazon to face opponents, including Spotify, Apple Music and Google Play Music, the three are behind the two are giants Of the relatively independent Spotify strength should not be overlooked.
Since it is a music service, Amazon must first solve the problem of music library. At present, Amazon Music Unlimited already has tens of millions of music. Amazon's solution is simple, is the signing of the world's three major record companies, plus hundreds of independent small music company. Similar to the three competitors mentioned above, Silver Wing Amazon Music Unlimited has also added a smart recommendation algorithm to music that combines machine recommendations with manual recommendations.
Amazon has launched applications for this service on various platforms, including Android, iOS, Sonos, Windows desktop and Amazon's own Fire tablet. And Amazon will also be applied to the interface was redesigned, whether it is fonts, navigation bar and other interface adjustment, or intelligent download and other functions, are to allow users to get a better listening experience.
However, in addition to the above, Amazon Music Unlimited biggest feature is that it can be combined with the Amazon Echo smart speakers. After the combination of the two, the user can directly through the voice to select music; However, the choice is not just the artist name, album name, music style so simple.
Through the Alexa intelligent assistant, Echo can also be the age of music, music, lyrics, music, emotional expression to identify. A typical example is that Echo will be able to respond automatically as required if the user plays Echo's "U2 band's music" after Echo. And the more people, Echo will be more intelligent.
In addition, Amazon Music Unlimited also provides an interesting little feature Side by Side; this feature can be displayed next to a particular music singer on the music related notes. There are not many singers who are currently involved in this feature, but are still growing.
Echo and Alexa
Echo smart speakers can be said that the crystallization of Amazon's artificial intelligence, especially its combination with the intelligent robot Alexa, so that Amazon in the field of artificial intelligence to win a place.
Echo as a speaker, all of its interactions are based on human voice input and speaker output. But the presence of Alexa, so that Echo can complete, including playing music, query the weather, set the alarm, a button under the orders and many other features; through these features, Echo will be able to well occupy a place in the family scene.
From the perspective of interaction, voice is also the most convenient way of interaction, especially in the family life scene. Amazon's precise positioning and effective excavation of this scene is also the reason why Echo's sales are increasing. Data show that as of April this year, Amazon Echo's sales have exceeded 300 million units, of which only last year's holiday sales season to sell more than 100 million units.
In fact, Google Home, is Google in response to Echo in the field of smart home challenges launched a competitive product. Google home also embodies Google's deep accumulation of artificial intelligence, and it can also play music from Google Play Music services. It seems that a family of smartphones between Google Home and Amazon Echo is about to start.
