阿里巴巴智能音箱將與亞馬遜Echo展開競爭

阿里巴巴正式發布首款智能語音終端設備“天貓精靈X1”，由阿里人工智能實驗室出品，內置第一代中文人機交流系統AliGenie，與亞馬遜（Amazon）的Echo競爭。

透露給《華爾街日報》（Wall Street Journal）的消息源表示，該設備面向中國市場，支持在亞馬遜的電子商務網站進行聲控購物。

阿里巴巴此舉將會進一步擠占亞馬遜在中國本就有限的空間。亞馬遜的Echo和其上運行的Alexa語音助手在2015年產品推出時就支持英國英語和德語。而亞馬遜的下個目標市場似乎是印度，在那里，它可能會兼容三種地區語言。

在中國涌現出可以競爭的語音助手，可能會讓亞馬遜更加沒有理由嘗試開拓這個市場。據報道，亞馬遜在中國的市場占有率已經不足1%。 （財富中文網）

譯者：嚴匡正

Chinese tech giant Alibaba will introduce a voice-controlled device to compete with Amazon’s Echo, with an official announcement coming as soon as next week.

According to sources speaking to the Wall Street Journal, the device will be targeted at the Chinese market, and will support voice-controlled shopping on Alibaba’s e-commerce sites. Plans for the device were first reported by The Information.

Alibaba’s move would further squeeze Amazon's limited footprint in China. Amazon’s Echo, and the Alexa voice assistant that runs on it, have added support for U.K. English and German since the device’s 2015 debut. But Amazon’s next target market appears to be India, where it may support three regional languages.

A competing voice assistant could give Amazon even less reason to try and expand its reach in China, where its market share is already reportedly under 1%.