Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and apparatus for operating a smart terminal. The method for operating a smart terminal includes: parsing a currently inputted user voice command to a current text command; querying a historical text command record matching the current text command from a historical text command record set corresponding to a historical user voice command set; parsing the queried historical text command record to obtain a user's intention; sending a user request generated based on the user's intention to a resource database; and commanding an action component to take an action based on a response returned from the resource database and the user's intention.