Apple HomePod enables voice recognition system to detect smoke alarm and send notification to users.

CTOnews.com, April 19 (Xinhua)-- Apple announced in January that it will target HomePod and HomePod mini smart speakers to detect the beep of smoke alarms through a built-in voice recognition system and send alerts to users in case of emergency.

After detecting the sound of smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors, this function can send notifications to the user's iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch. In this way, even if you are not at home when you go out, you can respond in time after receiving the relevant notice.

CTOnews.com also learned from the report that if your system is connected to a smart camera, it will also display video of your location so you can see what's going on in real time. Apple points out that the feature is end-to-end encrypted and that all voice recognition is done locally in smart speakers rather than in the cloud.

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