[Global Network Technology Comprehensive Report] On December 1, NetEase Youdao released NetEase Youdao Dictionary Pen 3. It is understood that this time, NetEase Youdao Dictionary Pen 3 has upgraded two major functions: the "super fast check" function has once again upgraded the efficiency of word search, and the "interactive reading" function is specially designed for children of lower ages, and the picture book point is realized for the first time. Visual interaction of reading. According to the announcement, Youdao Dictionary Pen 3 is priced at 1,199 yuan, and the professional version is priced at 1,499 yuan.
From scanning to checking
One year and three months after the launch of Youdao Dictionary Pen 2, Youdao Dictionary Pen 3 simplifies the search experience from scanning interactive methods directly to "click" with a pen. Look up the word.
"Dictionary Pen 2 will scan and check the experience to the extreme. In terms of user experience, do we have room for improvement?" Wu Yinghui, senior vice president and product leader of NetEase Youdao, said that the R&D team used to be in I am confused in the functional experience.
"The world's first'super fast point search' makes searching a word in the blink of an eye, faster than fast."
NetEase Youdao launched a Youdao dictionary that can "scan words" in August 2019 Pen 2nd generation, equipped with Youdao's self-developed OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology product, changed the traditional learning method. Continuing the offline function of the previous generation, the dictionary pen 3 does not need to be connected to Wi-Fi to realize word search, which is suitable for school environments without internet.
creates "visual point reading"
In order to meet the needs of more learning scenarios, NetEase Youdao Dictionary Pen 3 has added an "interactive point reading" function, expanding the user age of dictionary pen category to 3 years old.
Compared with traditional point reading pens, Youdao dictionary pen is an intelligent learning hardware that realizes visual point reading on the market. The biggest highlight of the interactive reading function of Youdao Dictionary Pen 3 is to realize the animation effect of children’s daily picture books, turning paper picture books into English cartoons on demand, which brings more enrichment to preschool children’s picture books. The three-dimensional reading experience enhances the interest while enhancing learning motivation.
In addition, in order to incorporate learning, practice, testing, and evaluation into the entire picture book learning scene, Youdao Dictionary Pen 3 can be read one by one, and is equipped with standard human pronunciation and AI scoring. For each picture book, an interactive answer setting is made to expand the thinking after reading and deepen the impression. In addition, a medal incentive system is set up to meet the exploration nature of children at a low age. There is a strong content support behind the
interactive reading function. Wu Yinghui introduced that NetEase Youdao has reached cooperation with many industry-leading publishing organizations including Xuele, Tongqu, and Xiaoxiang Chinese Character Series Books, bringing the popular "Disney Graded English Readings, "The Big Red Dog", "Fantastic School Bus", "David Shannon" and other classic picture book series.
In order to encourage more high-quality children’s content creators to join, NetEase Youdao has established the "Maliang Program for Magic Brushes". It will invest 100 million yuan to encourage high-quality original authors, introduce millions of dictionary pen user traffic, and promote children’s original content. Work together to build a growth platform that nurtures excellent content.
In addition, in terms of content, Youdao Dictionary Pen 3 can also do authoritative learning content such as natural spelling, K12 listening, and a massive vocabulary of up to 2.75 million.
allows technology to blossom in the learning scene
"Any technology must have an application scenario and understand what kind of scenario it is. Technology is not the absolute threshold of the Internet. There are scenarios where the application of the scene produces value in the scene is the most important thing. Matter.” Netease CEO Ding Lei said in an interview with the media earlier that it is not artificial intelligence that is labeled AI. Technology needs to be truly used in valuable places.
Since the beginning of research and development, based on OCR and NMT technology, Youdao dictionary pen has played a huge value in the application of AI technology in learning scenarios.
translates point-checking, point-reading and scanning into one pen. In order to realize automatic recognition and ensure smooth user experience and seamless switching, Youdao Dictionary Pen 3 independently developed the world’s first super-sensing optical system, compatible with OCR (optical (Character Recognition) and OID (Optical Identification Code) are two AI technologies that can automatically determine and recognize infrared light and visible light at the same time.
With the support of Youdao OCR technology, Youdao Dictionary Pen 3 can recognize more than 30 fonts, including common textbooks, extracurricular readings and other books, as well as various swashes and variants, adapting to more usage scenarios.
At the same time, the offline neural network equipped with the product accelerates by 20% on the original basis, making recognition faster. The recognition accuracy has also been greatly improved. In August last year, when the second generation of Youdao Dictionary Pen was launched, the average recognition accuracy rate was 95.5%. After several product upgrades, the accuracy rate continued to improve. On the latest Youdao Dictionary Pen 3, the average The recognition accuracy rate reached 98.3%.
"Youdao Dictionary Pen 3 is expected to become a phenomenon-level learning hardware again." Wu Yinghui said.
