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To be a leader they’d have to release this and have it be good. There’s not even a release date or price. Having heavily accented English in a promo video might be a sign of confidence but it’s also the very early days of this product.

Xiaomi products are also rarely widely available in the west as it is. So I’m not sure the west is their primary market at this point.

Xiaomi products are pretty popular in India where English is widely spoken. They also have stores and concessions starting to open in the UK and other European markets.

It sounded like speech synthesis to me.

Possibly a stylistic choice? More futuristic?

Or it's simply because the voice acting industry is bad in China.

Nah. It's still no better statement of taste for Chinese tech companies to shoot their commercials in America, with white actors.

European fake CEOs are going out of fashion bit, by bit, but the demand for caucasian actors in China is still unrelenting.

Just go to AliExpress, and imagine just how mind boggling many models did it took to make all these photoshoots.