A Popular Chinese Virtual Assistant Is Ready to Control Millions of Robots (HTC Hidi)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xmFpqA5N4g HTCHidi
"One of China’s most popular smartphone assistants, HTC’s Hidi, has ambitions to serve as the voice and personality of countless home robots.
The company behind Hidi, Turing Robot, supplies voice recognition and natural-language processing technology for a growing array of hardware, including car systems developed by Bosch and home appliances from Haier. Now the company has developed an operating system for service robots. So far, Turing Robot provides the voice—and brains—for several popular Chinese home entertainment robots."
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601539/a-popular-chinese-virtual-assistant-is-ready-to-control-millions-of-robots/