After teasing it a few days ago, Xiaomi has today officially launched the XiaoAI Art Speaker in its home market. With this launch, it has become the first XiaoAI speaker from the company to come with a metal body.

It has a textured metal body design with 16 million color aurora light strips. The outer body has a matte fine stone pattern and comes with seamlessly integrated touch buttons. The device comes packed with a 2.5-inch full-range speaker.

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There’s also a special paper carcass and voice coil and a U-shaped duct for bass enhancement, along with DTS professional sound tuning and Stereo 2.0 support. So, two of these can be connected together for a true stereo sound experience.

Thanks to the XiaoAI, this new smart speaker from the company can also be used to control more than 2000 smart devices using voice commands, which covers and supports more than 1,600 life skills.

For those who are unaware, XiaoAI is a smart AI-powered voice assistant from Xiaomi, similar to Apple Siri and Google Assistant, but it is built specially for Xiaomi and Redmi products and is currently limited to the Chinese market.

The Xiaomi XiaoAI Art Speaker is priced at 349 yuan (approximately $49) but will be available for purchase for 299 yuan from 25th May, which roughly coverts to $42.

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