SberPortal Smart Display

2022: Sales growth

The number of sold smart devices Sberbank exceeded 1 million. The developer company announced this on August 8, 2022. The calculation took into account all devices with Salute assistants: SberBox TV extender, SberPortal smart display, SberBox Top TV media center, SberBox Time smart media column, as well as TVs running Salute TV. Read more here.

2021

The function of confirming payment by person and voice

Owners of the SberPortal smart display and TV media center with the SberBox Top smart camera can now personalize access to their saved cards, the SberPay payment tool and configure the face and voice confirmation function, as well as choose which of the other users can make payments on a shared device. This function is designed to simplify the payment process in various services, as well as make sharing devices more convenient, Sberbank reported on August 25, 2021.

The technology was developed by SberDevices, in the field of facial recognition, the technological partner was the VisionLabs team.

In order to customize the personalization of payment, you need to register your profile: click on the user's profile icon, go through the procedure of "memorizing" the face and voice, and then confirm the creation of an account in the Sber Salyut mobile application. After that, you can set up payment with a linked card for other registered users of the device.

If the setting is enabled, then when trying to pay with a linked card, for example, products in the "Scooter" from the device, on the payment screen, the user will be prompted to look at the camera and say six digits to confirm the payment. If the device did not recognize the owner of the profile, the order can be paid for using a QR code by going through the authorization procedure through the Sberbank Online mobile application.

Confirming payment by face and voice on Sber devices with a camera is real know-how for home devices, this is definitely the level of convenience and at the same time of protection that no smart speaker or regular extender will give. At the same time, privacy and security remain a priority for us, recognition technology works on board the device, and at any time you can remove the face vector without a trace or untie the bank card, - said Konstantin Kruglov, CEO of SberDevices, Senior Vice President for New Digital Surfaces of Sberbank.

As specified in the bank, the face and voice payment function is not banking biometrics, it works as a setting for personalizing access to a saved bank card only to confirm payment on a specific device. At any time, the user can turn off the setting, remove the vector of his face from the device, turn off voice recognition, and untie the card.

Safety check by BI.Zone experts

BI.Zone experts conducted a security assessment of Sber's smart devices, which was announced by the latter on July 5, 2021. The test also passed the SberPortal smart display. Read more here.

Application availability with over-the-air radio stations

On January 27, 2021, SberDevices, SberSound and the Industrial Radio Player Association announced a partnership. Now on-air national radio stations are available to all users of smart devices from Sberbank with virtual Salyut assistants on board. Access to the radio player in the smart set-top box SberBox and the smart display SberPortal is free. Read more here.

2020: SberPortal Smart Display Launch

On December 21, 2020, Sberbank announced the start of sales of the SberPortal smart display announced in September 2020. A device with acoustics from Harman Kardon, a 10-inch HD screen, an AI camera and integrated virtual assistants Salute can already be ordered in the official online store for 29,990 rubles.

SberPortal

According to the company, the first batch of SberPortal is also available from December 21, 2020 at SberShop branded stores in Moscow.

SberPortal combines proper acoustics, the required resolution screen, video calls, special content and entertainment applications. The device can be controlled by voice, gestures and touches, and built-in face recognition will allow the device to recognize and greet its owner.

The smart display is equipped with a complex microphone matrix with six sensitive microphones, which was developed in conjunction with the Fraunhofer IIS Institute. Thanks to this solution, the device is able to recognize user voice commands even in conditions of extraneous noise, loud music or remote speaker. The call of virtual assistants can be made both by a single word-activator "Salute!" And by name to the currently selected assistant - Sberbank, Athena or Joy.

The device supports gestures to control the player for playing media content and the virtual assistant. Gestures can also be controlled by games specially designed for the device.

SberPortal already understands the following gestures:

• gesture V (Latin V formed by the index finger and middle finger) to activate the assistant;
• thumbs up or down to like the track while listening to music or cancel it;
• "Stop/Continue" gesture (open palm) to pause and continue playback.

"Stop/Continue" gesture

Familiar control through the touchscreen, it is also possible to use a virtual remote control and a virtual gamepad to interact with a smartphone through the SberSalyut application .

SberPortal has an application of the SberSound service adapted for the device. It supports the format of playing tracks that are recorded without loss of quality (such compositions are marked with the HQ icon). When creating such tracks, the FLAC codec is used. It does not remove acoustically significant information from the audio stream and does not lead to a deterioration in the sound quality of musical compositions.

Most national radio stations are available for listeners of broadcast broadcasting in SberPortal - this function is implemented in partnership with the Unified Industrial Radio Player and the SberSound service.

To make a video call, it is enough to say: "Salute, call mom" - virtual assistant and initiates a call with video communication, to do this, you need to log in to the SberPortal account in. messenger Telegram During a video call, the user always stays in the frame even while moving. To do this, a camera with wide-angle AI optics monitors the position of the speaker's figure and constantly keeps it in focus.

There are many games available on SberPortal: puzzles, timekillers, arcades and sports simulators. You can control games using a virtual gamepad and a virtual remote control in the SberSalyut mobile application, as well as gestures - for example, in the Beat Dancer music rhythm game developed for the device. During the game, the SberPortal camera recognizes the poses and gestures of the player, who uses his hands and body to catch flying objects and dodge obstacles to the music track.

SberPortal

SberPortal users will have access to a whole list of applications, including:

• "Order Products." The food and food delivery service is implemented through integration with the Scooter service, the full range of products of which is already available on SberPortal. The virtual assistant will help you collect the basket and find the necessary products by brand name, by dish category, by product category, as well as ready-made breakfasts;
• "SuperChef" is an application with step-by-step video receptors of author's dishes. Various customization options are available here - you can choose the cuisines of the countries of the world, categories of dishes, count the ingredients for the required number of people. Including available selections from famous culinary experts. The steps are voiced by a virtual assistant, and you can move around the recipe by giving voice commands without taking your hands off the cook.

In addition to applications, SberPortal users will have access to the constantly replenished SmartApps collection from external developers in the SmartMarket marketplace. Since its launch, SmartMarket has expanded to more than a hundred applications as of December 2020. Among them, interactive developmental applications for children are already available, including:

• "Am Yum, it's time to sleep!" - an interactive application for falling asleep, showing fairy tales and helping to guess simple riddles, wishing good night.

For viewing tens of thousands of films, TV series educational and lectures, SberPortal is integrated with the multimedia service. With the Okko help of Salute's virtual assistants, you can order popcorn or other snacks for watching the film - just say: "Salute, I want popcorn."

SberPortal, as well as the SberBox set-top box, implements the ability to make purchases while watching movies - the Video Shopping function is responsible for this. For example, she recognizes the clothes of the heroes of the film and finds the original or alternative in online stores of partners.

When activating SberPortal, a Silver TV channel package from Lifestream is immediately available, it allows you to watch more than 185 digital TV channels - a Wi-Fi connection is enough. After the trial subscription period ends, 20 TV channels are available always and free of charge.

Thanks to the synchronization of smart devices from Sberbank in the SberSalyut mobile application and SberCast technology, you can ask the virtual assistant in SberPortal to turn on the desired channel on the TV to which the SberBox TV set-top box is connected.