Xiaomi's Yeelight Smart Speaker Is an Echo Dot Look Alike

Every now then we hear from ane of Xiaomi's side projects and more often than not information technology's something eye-catching and relevant. And so it is with the new Yeelight smart speaker from Yeelight, a Xiaomi subsidiary that dabbles in home automation products.

The Yeelight speakers have great hardware chops, but it's a spitting paradigm of Amazon's Echo Dot. It even has the blue LED that's an Alexa trademark, along with similar hardware buttons on top. And Yeelight also shares some software genes with the Repeat Dot, equally it comes with Alexa phonation assistant support. Only this is Xiaomi subsequently all and to set it apart from Echo Dot, you also get Microsoft's Cortana inside. The Dual AI is a existent USP for Yeelight.

It comes with a ii-watt speaker, a half-dozen-microphone array to choice upwardly users' voice commands. The company claims that you can wake the speaker upward from up to a v-meter distance and there'southward likewise an advanced acoustic echo cancellation (AEC) for improved clarity and beamforming engineering science for echo reduction on lath.

The whole matter is powered by a quad-cadre Cortex A53 processor with 256MB of RAM and an equal amount of internal storage space. Connectivity options include dual-band Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low Energy (LE).

Yeelight Smart Speaker vs Alexa Echo Dot

Only like any other smart speaker out there, Yeelight can take intendance of bones tasks similar controlling smart home products, playing music and giving you information on the go.

Sadly, it appears to be a Red china-sectional for now, and that'south a peachy shame considering the sweetness price of CNY199 (approx. Rs 1,900)! We'll let yous know as soon as it hits Xiaomi's MiJia platform.