Celia (virtual assistant)

Celia is an artificially intelligent virtual assistant developed by Huawei for their latest Android-based EMUI smartphones that lack Google Services and a Google Assistant.[1][2][3][4] The assistant can perform day-to-day tasks, which include making a phone call, setting a reminder and checking the weather. It was unveiled on 7 April 2020 and got publicly released on 27 April 2020 via an OTA update solely to selected devices that can update their software to EMUI 10.1.[5][6][7]

Celia
Developer(s)Huawei
Initial release27 April 2020 (2020-04-27)
Operating systemAndroid
EMUI
HarmonyOS (The latter, possibly in 2021)
Platform
Available inEnglish, French, Spanish, Russian
TypeAI Virtual assistant
Websiteconsumer.huawei.com/en/emui/celia/
For other uses, see Celia (disambiguation).

Huawei had initially referred to the new assistant in late 2019 by having announced that there would be an English version of their already Chinese speaker assistant—Xiaoyi—to be released into the European markets.[8][9] Due to the on-going China–United States trade war, the company's newly released smartphones were left without a virtual assistant. This subsequently led to the development and release of Celia.[10][11][12]

AI technology is integrated into the software of Celia, which allows her to translate text using a phones camera and to identify everyday objects - similar to that of Google Lens.[13]

Features

Celia has many features that are similar to that of its rivals, who are, the Google Assistant and Siri. She can be triggered by the words, 'Hey Celia' or be summoned by pressing and holding down on the power button. The default search engine for Celia is Bing, but this can be changed in settings.[14][15] Celia can make calls, check the agenda, send a message, show the weather, set alarms and control home appliances.[16] The assistant also has the ability to integrate itself with the stock apps of the EMUI software and toggle with the device's settings, such as by turning on the flashlight and playing multimedia content, but with the users command.[17] With the AI that is installed in Celia, she can identify food, everyday objects and translate text using the phones camera.[18]

Availability by country and language

Currently, Celia is only available in German, English, French and Spanish and has released in the Germany, UK, France, Spain, Chile, Mexico and Colombia. Huawei has said that there will be more regions and languages to come.[19][20][21][22]

Compatible devices
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Celia only became available with the EMUI 10.1 update[23] that was released in April, which means that a limited number of devices are compatible with her. More devices will be added to the list throughout the coming months as Celia's availability increases. The current list is shown below:

Huawei P series

Huawei Mate series

Huawei Nova series
  • Huawei Nova 6 (Nova 6 5G & Nova 6 SE)[25]
  • Huawei Nova 5 (Nova 5 Pro, Nova 5i Pro & Nova 5Z)[25]

Huawei Enjoy series
  • Huawei Enjoy 10S[25]

Issues

Technology news website Engadget has noted that when saying, 'Hey Celia', out aloud in the presence of an iPhone, Siri will respond along with Celia, but this is probably due to the fact that the pronunciation for 'Celia' is similar to that of 'Siri'.[30]

See also

References
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  12. Lorna, Rapid (26 March 2020). "Huawei Celia the is alternative to Google Assistant | Rapid Mobile". rapidmobile.biz. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
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  17. "Huawei made its own Siri rival called Celia". finance.yahoo.com. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  18. Collins, Katie. "Huawei's Siri and Alexa rival is a smart assistant named Celia". CNET. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  19. Junior, John H. (5 April 2020). "EMUI 10.1 Feature: Celia – New Voice Assitant [sic]". Huawei Central. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
  20. "Huawei to launch multilingual voice assistant Celia, starting on the P40 flagship in 6 countries". VentureBeat. 26 March 2020. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
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  25. Sudarshan (23 April 2020). "Official List Of Huawei Smartphones Eligible For EMUI 10.1 Update". Gizmochina. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
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  29. October 2020, James Rogerson 22. "Huawei Mate 40 release date, price, news and features". TechRadar. Retrieved 23 October 2020.
  30. Smith, Mat; 03.26.20. "Huawei made its own Siri rival called Celia". Engadget. Retrieved 12 June 2020.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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