With the hiring of former Microsoft Executive Vice President Qu Li, Baidu is making a significant push into building products and services for conversational bots, smart home assistants and self-driving cars.
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Baidu’s Duer marries the work that Baidu has done in speech recognition with search services that support the “parsing” of spoken input and indexed Web content.