What is the future hotel like this? Tmall Elf and Flying Pigs Create Smart Speaker Room

TechWeb reports A few days ago, Alibaba Artificial Intelligence Lab and Flying Pig announced in Sanya, Hainan, officially launched the full-featured scale of "Future Hotel 2.0". After the cooperation between the two parties, the future travellers can enter the hotel and pass the Tmall Elf voice in the room. Control curtains, lamps, televisions and other equipment, and directly call hotel room related services by voice. The cooperation between the two parties will allow Tmall Elf to settle in 100,000 hotel rooms.

It is reported that the West Xixuan Hotel and the Westin Sanya Hotel have become the first smart hotels to access the Tmall Elf in the guest rooms, and will cover 100,000 hotel rooms during the year.




In July of this year, Ali Artificial Intelligence Lab released the first artificial intelligence voice device Tmall Elf X1. In fact, in the intelligent voice scene, intelligent speaker products based on artificial intelligence and voice interaction have become very popular, not only Amazon launched Echo, Apple. HomePod and other devices have been announced. There are also a large number of enterprises in the country. In this field, Ali has the advantage of data and artificial intelligence technology, so the Tmall Elf X1 is a more interesting product.

“The smart speaker is just an entrance to the voice interaction, and the depth of the service and the width of the scene determine the value of the entrance.” The introduction of the Ali Artificial Intelligence Lab, Shion Snow, in order to make the “Tmall Elf” in the hotel scene more Smart, Alibaba spent nearly 6 months collecting the dialogue corpus of millions of hotel scenes, "feeding" to the "Tmall Elf" for natural language learning, and only users asked about the weather, there are nearly 700 types of expressions. . In addition, the Tmall Elf has supported 15 brands including Philips, Midea and Haier, and a total of 19 different categories of smart home products.

It is reported that the next day, the Tmall Elf will be connected with the major needs of travel, such as take-away, taxi, and ticket purchase. With more features, the Tmall Elf can even act directly as a hotel front desk.

According to industry analysts, this cooperation not only provides strong support for the differentiated competition of Flying Pig in the hotel industry, but also brings huge imagination to the breakthrough of Tmall Elf in the smart speaker industry. “This is an ecological plus. In the sense of action, it is conceivable that in the future, the Tmall Elf will cooperate with other businesses in the Ali ecosystem to enter more offline scenes and become the first entry point for voice interaction."