In this busy age, I always feel that I don’t have enough time to accompany my children to study. In order to help children learn English and classical Chinese better, it is necessary to have a reliable dictionary pen as an aid to assist children in learning.
When I was shopping, I found that many relatives and friends also bought dictionary pens for their children. In the process of using the dictionary pens, I discovered many additional practical functions. The thousand-yuan dictionary pen is no longer just a point-reading tool, but also integrates translation, literacy, ancient Chinese, private tutoring and other functions into one, and it can do several things at the same time!
borrowed three thousand-yuan dictionary pens from relatives and friends - Alpha Egg AI Dictionary Pen T10, NetEase Youdao Dictionary Pen 3 Standard Edition, and BBK Dictionary Pen F5. These three dictionary pens are also the most popular models on the market. If you want to know which one is practical, you must have a better understanding after using it.
Next, I will show you which of these three dictionary pens is more cost-effective and practical from the four aspects of design, scanning effect, Chinese learning, and English learning ? !
★This sentence is very important★If there is a group picture or puzzle next, from left to right they are Alphadan T10, NetEase Youdao 3, and BBK F5. This order will also run through the entire comparison process.
PART 1. Design
The three dictionary pens have a relatively flat design, are about the same size, and are quite comfortable to hold.
Alpha Egg T10 comes in black and silver color, NetEase Youdao 3 comes in black and gray combination, and BBK F5 has black front and blue back, each with its own unique appearance.
From the front, the Alpha Egg T10 is the most recognizable. There are power on and off buttons and voice assistant buttons on both sides. There is also a magical "T" button on the front. I will tell you about its unique functions later.
NetEase Youdao 3 can be said to be the smallest among the three. It has a power on/off button and a voice assistant button on one side.
The button configuration of BBK F5 is similar to that of NetEase Youdao 3, except that the color matching logic of the switch button and voice assistant button is different.
The screens of the three dictionary pens all support touch screen control, and the sensitivity is sufficient. Among them, the screen of Alpha Egg T10 reaches a maximum of 3.71 inches, the screen of NetEase Youdao 3 is 2.97 inches, and the screen of BBK F5 is 2.99 inches.
Adjust the screen to the maximum brightness. In actual viewing, the display effect of Alpha Egg T10 and NetEase Youdao 3 is better. Moreover, the screen of Alpha Egg T10 has Rheinland low blue light eye protection certification, which can protect children's vision more.
The speakers are all set on the top of the back, so you don’t have to worry about blocking the speaker openings with your hands even when in use.
Alpha Egg T10 and BBK F5 both set the microphone pickup port on the top of the fuselage, so that the sound pickup effect can be better. The former uses dual pickup ports, which also provides a hardware foundation for high-precision physical pickup. The scanning windows of the three dictionary pens
appear to be basically the same size to the naked eye. In actual use, even "size 1" fonts can be covered.
The contact positions of the scanning port are all designed with a rounded arc surface, and the movement on the paper is very smooth, without any obvious sense of blockage.
The more functions the dictionary pen is equipped with and the more practical the functions, the more comfortable it will be to use and the more adaptable it will be to children of different ages.
In addition to setting options, Alphadan T10 has 9 built-in functional modules, NetEase Youdao 3 has 8 built-in functional modules, and BBK F5 has only three functional modules.
In addition to the basic point reading function, all three dictionary pens have built-in voice assistants, which can achieve one-click intelligent interaction through voice buttons.
PART 2. Scanning effect
How good the scanning effect is can be said to be one of the most important factors in measuring a dictionary pen, and it is also the basic guarantee of the user experience.
prints "This text is test content + (corresponding font size)" on A4 paper with Chinese font sizes in the range from "No. 8" to "No. 1" as test content. The font size range covers the text size for daily reading.
From the scanning test of these 14 paragraphs with different font sizes, these three dictionary pens can recognize and effectively translate the text in this range.
The smallest size eight fonts
The largest size one fonts
Under the conditions of the same font size and the same content, the response speeds of these three dictionary pens are also different. The response speed of Alpha Egg T10 is the fastest, and content recognition and translation have been completed as soon as I put down the pen; the response of NetEase Youdao 3 is slightly inferior, and the translated text does not appear until one or two seconds after I put it down; the response speed of BBK F5 is slightly disappointing for the same price range, and the translated text after scanning appears the latest.
Alpha Egg T10
NetEase Youdao3
BBK F5
I plan to buy a dictionary pen for my children mainly for learning Chinese and English. The performance of these two items is also a key factor in deciding which one to buy.
PART 3. Chinese learning
Many people have the impression that dictionary pens are for learning foreign languages. In fact, dictionary pens are not only useful for learning foreign languages, but are also very useful for learning our Chinese language.
not only can accurately recognize common Chinese characters, but these three dictionary pens can also achieve high-precision recognition of rare characters. Relatively speaking, the recognition and display effects of Alphadan T10 and BBK F5 are very good, and they also have Chinese Pinyin annotations. Relatively speaking, NetEase Youdao 3 is inferior.
For the recognition of single new characters, the three dictionary pens have notes on how to write them. Among them, Alphadan T10 and BBK F5 also have detailed dynamic display of strokes. Compared with the static stroke display of NetEase Youdao 3, dynamic strokes are more helpful for children to write newly learned Chinese characters, and can also avoid the embarrassment of developing "fallen pens" in the future.
For the recognition and expansion of Chinese characters, Alpha Egg T10 displays a wider range of content, including not only pronunciation and stroke order, but also the fluency and accuracy of speaking, which is more helpful for speaking more fluent Mandarin.
For the recognition of proverbs and ancient poetry, the three dictionary pens can basically accurately identify sentences, and at the same time, they can find the source of the original text, which is more conducive to understanding the words and sentences in the full-text environment.
For famous sayings such as "Read thousands of volumes, write like a god", Alpha Egg T10 can even directly display the full text and have a real person recite it, while NetEase Youdao 3 displays a Chinese literal translation, and BBK F5 jumps directly to the English translation.
Among them, Alpha Egg T10 is the most obvious help for learning ancient poetry. It can not only display the original text, but also expand the understanding of the creative era and the life of the writer. At the end, there is a corresponding English translation, and the overall knowledge coverage is very three-dimensional.
The AI teaching function of Alpha Egg T10 is very distinctive. After scanning the corresponding Chinese words and phrases, just press the "T" key in front of the dictionary pen, and the AI teacher can teach children standard Mandarin and appreciation of classic ancient poems. Chinese teaching can be said to be at your fingertips.
Alpha Egg T10 adopts the Mandarin proficiency test homologous technology certified by the National Language Commission, which is not available in the other two models. It can also play a very positive role in creating standard Mandarin and correcting language habits.
PART 4. English learning
In terms of Chinese-English translation, the standards of these three dictionary pens are not consistent. Regarding the translation of the sentence "Stop smoking immediately" into Chinese, Alphadan T10 and BBK F5 are consistent with the original translation in the book, while NetEase Youdao 3 is slightly different from the original text.
Translate the same sentence from Chinese to English. The performance of the three dictionary pens is quite good. The Chinese-English translation and pronunciation of most daily expressions can be relatively standardized, and there will be no "Chinglish" grammatical errors that I often made when I was in school.
After scanning the text, intelligent voice translation can also make children pay more attention to pronunciation. These three dictionary pens can adjust the "British" or "American" pronunciation in the settings. There are also corresponding phonetic notations for different pronunciations, which will help children develop good pronunciation habits.
For some common sentences in children's picture books, you can also use the dictionary pen to cultivate children's bilingual reading ability in Chinese and English. The recognition of standard fonts is quite smooth.
Among them, Alpha Egg T10 supports the natural spelling function of dismantling the pronunciation, so that the following words can be more accurate and help to adjust the spoken language.
For some "flower characters" and uncommon fonts, Alphadan T10 and NetEase Youdao 3 have better recognition and translation effects. BBK does not cover the vocabulary "ex-libris". In the opinion of a pseudo-literary young man like me, it really shouldn't be done. I hope that the corresponding vocabulary can be expanded through subsequent software upgrades.
English learning pays attention to five aspects: listening, speaking, reading, writing and memorizing. A more detailed comparison is made from these aspects.
listen. When I was in junior high school and high school, I thought it was important to practice listening more to learn English well, and I still think so now.
Alpha Egg T10 is a dictionary pen with a large number of listening resources, including online listening materials on more than 140 topics for free download. Moreover, the small dictionary pen can also be turned into a portable repeater, allowing you to read and integrate into the language environment anytime and anywhere. NetEase Youdao 3 needs to pay to purchase relevant electronic resources of textbooks to achieve related functions; BBK F5 needs to correspond to physical textbooks to achieve related functions. The three dictionary pens
all support Bluetooth connection. If used in a noisy environment, connecting to the Bluetooth headset can also be used for language learning easily without worrying about the voice of the dictionary pen disturbing others.
said. Listening and reciting is also one of the best ways to learn a language, and all three dictionary pens have a scoring function. Alphadan T10 scores in four aspects: accuracy, standard, fluency, and completeness. NetEase Youdao 3 scores in three aspects: accuracy, fluency, and completeness. NetEase Youdao 3 scores in three aspects: accuracy, fluency, and completeness.
Alpha Egg T10's score is more comprehensive, followed by BBK F5, and NetEase Youdao 3's score is too simple. It is worth mentioning that the Alpha Egg T10 adopts the same technology as the oral scoring of the high school and college entrance examinations. The scoring is relatively more authoritative and can better guarantee the pronunciation standard, which is something that other brands of dictionary pens do not have.
read. The Alphadan T10 intelligent AI teacher also has a grammar explanation function. Even complex long sentences in English can be translated very accurately. It can also explain the components, tenses, uses, and sentence patterns of related oranges, allowing children to learn English grammar more systematically. The other two dictionary pens currently do not have this function.
writes. Alphadan T10's AI smart teacher supports intelligent composition correction, and has built-in homologous technology for college entrance examination composition scoring. It can check the standardization, grammar and other issues of the composition without the presence of a teacher, and correct problems in a timely manner if problems are found. This can also develop good composition habits. The other two models do not have corresponding functions.
back. Word memory is the basis of listening and speaking, and memorizing more words has many benefits. Among the three dictionary pens, only the Alpha T10 supports the word memorization function, which allows you to set up new word books and word memorization plans. This step-by-step approach is quite effective; although NetEase Youdao 3 has a word book, it is not closely related to memorizing words; BBK F5 does not have this function.
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In the past few days of comparison, the recognition accuracy of the three English, modern Chinese , and ancient poetry exceeded my expectations. The accuracy of using Alpha T10>NetEase Youdao 3>BBK F5. The three models
have basically been used for the same time. The current battery remaining is 60%, 53%, and 56% respectively. However, these three devices are not new, and the battery life is for reference only.
The screen anti-fingerprint effects of the three dictionary pens are also different. In comparison, Alphadan T10 and NetEase Youdao 3 are more resistant to fingerprint oil stains, while BBK F5 is slightly less resistant.
I believe that the friends here have their own choices. I also chose one of them. Which one do you prefer? You are also welcome to share your favorite one in the comment area so that your children can learn and grow happily.
