百度在这个领域超过了谷歌，但仍然不是世界第一

亚马逊Echo与谷歌Home一直是智能音箱市场中最大的庄家，但一家新公司正迎头赶了上来。

研究公司Canalys称，中国科技巨头百度已经超越谷歌，坐上了全球智能音箱市场的第二把交椅。百度制作的音箱仅在中国销售，其第二季度出货量占到了全球市场的17.3%，超过了谷歌16.7%的份额。

亚马逊以25.4%的份额位居榜首。

百度的崛起更令人感到震惊，可以说是横空出世。Canalys称，在去年的这个时候，其市场份额还不到1%。

但自那之后，百度成功地将其销售额提升了3700%。对，这个数字并没有打错。

百度的增速远超亚马逊的Echo，后者的出货量在去年仅增长了61%。谷歌的出货量实际上下降了近20%。

总的来说，智能音箱第二季度出货量与去年同期相比增长了55%。各大制造商的出货量超过了2600万台，而去年同期为1680万台。

大部分的增长来自于美国海外，而这一点对于百度也是十分有利。尽管该行业的增长期有所延长，但美国的出货量下滑了2%。

Canalys的高级分析师杰森·洛在一则声明中说：“亚马逊和谷歌正专注于发展其美国海外的业务。”（财富中文网）

译者：冯丰

审校：夏林

Amazon’s Echo and Google’s Home have been the biggest players in the smart speaker market. But a new company is rising in the ranks.

Chinese tech giant Baidu has unseated Google for No. 2 in the smart speaker market worldwide, according to research firm Canalys. Baidu, which makes speakers that it sells only in China, had a 17.3% market share of shipments in the second quarter, ahead of Google, which had a 16.7% share.

Amazon led the smart speaker rankings at 25.4%.

Baidu’s rise is all the more remarkable because it has come out of nowhere. At this time last year, its market share was just under 1%, according to Canalys.

But since then, Baidu has managed to increase sales 3,700%. And no, that’s not a typo.

Baidu’s growth far outpaces that of Amazon Echo, shipments of which grew just over 61% in the past year. Google’s shipments actually declined nearly 20%.

Overall, smart speaker shipments grew 55% in the second quarter compared with the same quarter a year earlier. Manufacturers shipped over 26 million of them during that time versus 16.8 million in the year-ago quarter.

Much of that growth is coming from outside the U.S., which also works in Baidu’s favor. Shipments in the U.S. declined 2% even as the industry sees a larger growth period.

“Amazon and Google are focused on growing their business outside the U.S.,” senior analyst at Canalys Jason Low said in a statement.