Why melt away up valuable energy when you can only bark orders at a speech-recognising speaker like the Amazon Echo – or Lenovo’s new Good Assistant, which features particularly the exact Alexa technology.
Lenovo and Amazon labored together on this system – just announced at CES 2017 and thanks to hit the stores around mid this yr (and though Lenovo is including it in its Australian briefing resources, the corporation also notes there is no term on nearby pricing or availability at this time) – but in some approaches it seems to just be an Echo with a (very so a bit) various style and a various logo.
The all-crucial Alexa technology, which responds to your requests and inquiries to participate in songs, develop lists and calendar reminders, perform internet queries or only inform you what the weather’s going to be like tomorrow, appears to function in particularly the exact way as it does in the Echo. So it could be that the primary dissimilarities concerning Lenovo and Amazon’s smart speakers lie in style and create high quality or audio functionality.
I haven’t heard it myself, so I could not say, but Lenovo is releasing a distinctive Harmon Kardon version of it (priced at US$50 far more) that really should offer you a plumper audio working experience. One more rationale to purchase the Good Assistant over the Echo could be that the previous is capable to interact with Lenovo’s variety of smart dwelling merchandise.
You will be capable to purchase it from the spring in the US (the US period, that is), wherever it’ll be priced at around US$a hundred thirty, or US$one hundred eighty for the fancy pants Harmon Kardon variation.
This write-up originally appeared at Things.television set