The recently revealed Huawei AI speaker looks like a blend of designs borrowed from Amazon Echo and Apple HomePod
Huawei has revealed its latest AI based speaker during its Mate 20 event held in China. Strikingly similar in design to Amazon Echo and Apple Homepod, the new Huawei AI home-speaker will currently be only available in China.
Despite clear similarities in design, including control buttons on the top and a stout, the latest Huawei AI speaker has been priced at 399 yuan ($60), which is way cheaper than Apple’s $349 Homepod.
The China based smart devices maker had earlier revealed AI Cube during the IFA event. Huawei AI Cube also shares similarities with Google Home’s design, and is powered by Amazon Alexa.
Huawei AI Speaker design
Powered by Huawei’s own voice assistant, Xiaoyi, the recently revealed Huawei AI speaker looks like a blend of designs borrowed from Amazon Echo and Apple HomePod. It’s shape, a power cord stemming out of the back clearly reminds of Apple HomePod, while the top, barring Huawei branding in the middle, looks pretty similar to Amazon Echo.
This 2.25-inch high-fidelity, 10W Huawei AI speaker comes equipped with six microphones and supports voice-print recognition in order to distinguish between difference voices.
Huawei said this latest AI speaker will be available in white and grey colours.
Technology used
The Huawei AI speaker uses Dynaudio’s audio technology and comes embedded with Huawei’s “Histen” algorithm to ensure smooth sound experience. Huawei uses the same algorithm in its range of smartphones.
Huawei AI speaker availability in India
Huawei has not revealed any plans of launching the newly revealed AI speaker in India. The speaker also does not support English or any other Indian language currently. However, given the market share and preference for low priced products in the country, Huawei may soon release a statement clarifying the launch of Huawei AI speaker here.
The earlier launched Huawei AI cube is also not available in the country.
