With its 1080p HD camera, Kinect delivers a highly detailed picture, and
its microphone array picks out your voice above any other sound in the room, so no one will ever miss a beat.
Not exact matches
Xiaomi said that the speaker offers «excellent sound quality», along with a six -
microphone omnidirectional
array to
pick up voice commands and enquiries from anywhere in the room.
The Echo
picks your voice up effortlessly over loud music and ambient noise thanks to its beam - forming
array of seven
microphones.
Although Amazon recommends you put at least 3 feet of space between the speakers and the Echo device (because very close proximity can make it difficult, while audio is pumping out of the speakers, for the
microphone array to properly
pick up your voice commands) we found that their concern was a bit overblown.
That includes the
microphone array that helps Echo
pick up speech even in a fairly noisy room, as well as Amazon's own proprietary software for recognizing wake words, reducing background noise and cancelling out echoes in large open rooms.
And because of its
array of six
microphones, HomePod should
pick up your voice commands better and more accurately than any other Siri - enabled device before it.
This is vastly different from my experiences with Amazon's Echo products: While the Echo has an excellent
array of
microphones for
picking up your voice at rest, when playing loud music I often found myself shouting to get the Echo to understand me.
Its
microphone array is best - in - class as well,
picking up whispers even when your music is blasting around the room.