The $118 replacement for Amazon Echo; Meet LingLong DingDong

If Amazon has its Amazon Echo, Beijing LingLong has its LingLong DingDong.

Like the Echo and Home, it's a speaker with AI smarts that gloats a well known feature set, including playing music (from the library of Chinese search giant Baidu), note-taking, and giving updates on the news, weather, and traffic conditions.

Its design is basic, standing 9.5 inches tall and weighing just three pounds. It features a round top that transitions into a square base and comes in three distinct hues. Everything about the design is meaningful. The physical design is intended to speak that heaven is round and earth is square, an idea that is vital to the design language of the LingLong. The hues additionally have different implications: white for purity and red for prosperity.

The gadget costs what might as well be called $118 and is accessible in two languages: Mandarin and Cantonese. Because of the complex nature of every language, it was not plausible to feature them both inside the same gadget. With all the variety in dialect and highlight, accomplishing 100 percent voice recognition was a challenge, yet the makers are confident that no less than 95 percent of clients will be caught on.

The company said it could work with Amazon to introduce DingDong to Alexa, and vice versa. If they want to sell the Echo in China, maybe they will use our voice engine.