Journal of Appliance Science & Technology ›› 2025, Vol. 0 ›› Issue (zk): 17-23.doi: 10.19784/j.cnki.issn1672-0172.2025.99.004

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A survey on the evaluation of intent understanding in smart home voice interaction

PAN Yueran1,2, JIAO Limin3,4,5, YANG Rongxiang1,2, CUI Qingyong1,2, YAO Changsong1,2, XU Yi1,2   

  1. 1. Midea Group Co., Ltd. Foshan 528311;
    2. AI Research Center, Midea Group (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. Shanghai 201702;
    3. China Household Electric Appliance Research Institute Beijing 100176;
    4. CHEARI (Beijing) Certification & Testing Co., Ltd. Beijing 100176;
    5. National Smart Home Quality Supervision & Inspection Center Beijing 100176
  • Published:2025-12-30

Abstract: With the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT), smart home voice interaction is evolving from functional command execution to demand understanding and proactive service. Intent Understanding is the core of this service , and its evaluation system is crucial for measuring voice assistant performance and user experience. Reviews the current status of evaluation for intent understanding in smart home voice interaction, systematically summarizing its technical evolution, datasets, and metric systems. Addressing existing limitations, it identifies three major challenges: difficulty in quantifying intelligence, insufficient coverage of complex interactions, and lack of corpus standardization. Further envisions a human-centered evaluation framework guided by user experience and emotional intelligence. Also puts forward three construction paths: standardizing data and scripts , unifying metrics and reporting protocols , and validating transferability between simulation and real-world scenarios, providing a reference for achieving human-centric intelligence evaluation.

Key words: Smart home, Voice interaction, Intent understanding, Evaluation framework, Large Language Model (LLM)

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