Lenovo Unveils New Smart Assistant With Amazon Alexa

Lenovo has announced Smart Assistant, a new mainstream digital personal assistant with Amazon Alexa cloud-based voice services.

Built in collaboration with Amazon, the elegantly designed Lenovo Smart Assistant recognizes users’ voice commands and uses Alexa to conduct web searches, play music, create lists, provide calendar updates and much more. And because Alexa’s brains are in the cloud, it means she’s always getting smarter.

The Lenovo Smart Assistant features eight 360-degree far-field microphones with noise suppression and acoustic echo cancellation – designed to pick up users’ voice commands from up to 16 feet (5 meters) away. Additionally, the device comes with the option of a special Harman Kardon edition for premium audio quality for music and home entertainment.

The Smart Assistant can run Lenovo smart home devices as well as existing third-party products.

“Our goal has never been to simply build smart home devices for the sake of advancing technology alone,” says Johnson Jia, Lenovo’s senior vice president, PC & Smart Device Business Group. “In the same way a person’s IQ is measured by applied knowledge, we believe products are ‘smart’ to the degree they’re actually understood and applied to daily life by their users.”


“We’re excited to work with an innovative company such as Lenovo to bring the Lenovo Smart Assistant with Alexa to customers this spring,” said Steve Rabuchin, vice president, Amazon Alexa. “At Amazon, we work hard to provide customers with as much choice as possible—and Lenovo’s new Smart Assistant speaker does just that through leveraging the power of Alexa Voice Services (AVS). We can’t wait for customers to try this out later this year.”

Pricing and Availability:
The Lenovo Smart Assistant starts at $129.99 and will be available in Light Gray, Green and Orange beginning May 2017. The Harman Kardon Edition starts at $179.99 and will also be available beginning in May.