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2025-01-19 Update From: SLTechnology News&Howtos shulou NAV: SLTechnology News&Howtos > Internet Technology >
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The two cyclones of technology and market are urging the translator to run faster.
According to the statistics of the China Tourism Academy, the number of Chinese outbound tourists reached 140 million in 2018, up 11 million from 2017 and 13.5 per cent year-on-year. Today, we can say with certainty that as the first overseas travel and consumption country in the world, "going to such a big world" has become a rigid demand of the Chinese people.
At the same time, advances in AI technology are forcing consumer hardware to respond. In addition to the speakers, the translator has basically secured the second place in the AI hardware.
However, objectively speaking, today's translator market is not perfect. Although the market continues to open, more and more consumers are aware of the choice of translators. However, compared with the huge tourism market of 140 million outbound passengers, the penetration rate of translators still has a lot of room for improvement.
In this stall where the translator has just gained a foothold, perhaps the core players have to answer such a question: how can we make the translator more in line with the real needs? Change the user from "can try the translator" to "love the translator"?
On May 21st, iFLYTEK held "your World, because of A.I." at the Shanghai World Expo Center. "and can" as the theme of the 2019 new product launch. Unsurprisingly, the most important product of the year is iFLYTEK translator 3.0.
If we say that the first two generations of iFLYTEK translation machines completed the "positional warfare" from scratch. Then the iFLYTEK translation machine in the 3.0th era fought a "battle" to break through the barrier and pull out the fortress.
Language Barrier: a realistic problem in AI Translation situations
Objectively speaking, today's AI machine translation technology has been quite mature on the whole. At least in the dimension of English-Chinese translation, the simple translation of tourism scenes is no longer a difficult problem.
So why do many Chinese tourists who need foreign language expression skills still not choose a translation machine when they travel?
A large part of the reason is that in travel and business scenes, the dilemma faced by translators often comes not from the simple assessment results of English-Chinese translation, but from realistic factors full of uncertainties.
For example, in real life, especially in the journey, the translation needs are often short and urgent. At this time, many factors may become interference, such as the user's accent, the noisy environment around, the sudden failure of the network, and so on. The market demand faced by the translator is precisely a "barrel theory": for any reason, as long as it fails once, the user may have a rebellious psychology. In the event of a continuous failure, users will have the idea that they no longer need a translator.
These problems do not exist in the ideal translation environment, that is, the "language barrier" phenomenon that interpreters often face.
However, the translation ability of AI goes from ideal to reality, which needs to be eliminated one by one.
In the just released iFLYTEK translator 3.0, we can see a series of upgrades aimed at the strong application of reality. The most important factor is that it has completed three key battles from the point of view of the combination of software and hardware.
The noise: the Battle of the Environment in the Real Translation scene
The first difficulty in the practical application of translation equipment is that uncertainties in the environment often lead to translation failure. One of the more representative problems is that there may be noise pollution in the translation environment, which is difficult for the translator to hear clearly. Another is that there is no network, the translation opportunity is out of order. The most typical environment is to use a translator to communicate with flight attendants on a plane.
To break through this hurdle, we must rely on the breakthrough of hardware.
In iFLYTEK translator 3. 0, it is equipped with iFLYTEK intelligent translation kernel, Snapdragon 8-core processor and global deployment CDN. As a result, the translation speed of iFLYTEK translator 3.0 can reach "0.5 second flash translation", which effectively avoids the embarrassment caused by the slow translation speed. On the other hand, through "four wheat noise reduction" technology, "dual loudspeaker" device and "end-to-end" translation, iFLYTEK translator 3.0 can greatly reduce noise interference.
In the face of another "environmental killer"-Wuwangjun, iFLYTEK translator 3.0 is equipped with a new generation of offline kernel, including a new generation of offline speech recognition engine and offline translation engine. With the help of high-power processors, the scale of the offline speech recognition training model has been expanded five times, and the recognition rate of Chinese and English has exceeded 95%. The capacity of the translation model has increased by 105%, and the size of the thesaurus has been doubled.
The "wilderness survival" skills of these translators have greatly enhanced the value of their existence. After all, another logic of the translator is that it can play a role in special circumstances, which often means to be prepared. In special cases, it is often in the case of sudden, no network and chaos.
In addition, the popular photo translation has also been greatly enhanced in iFLYTEK version 3.0. And in the hardware side is equipped with professional adjustment camera, high-definition retinal screen, flash, to ensure that the photo translation continues to work in a variety of light environment.
It can be seen that the enhancement of hardware capability can be regarded as a main road for the upgrade of iFLYTEK translator. When we think that AI translation is a pure software engineering and algorithmic ability, we often ignore that in front of the consumer experience, software and hardware capabilities can never be neglected.
Fortunately, the road has been opened. There is reason to believe that the comprehensive comparison of computing power, communication ability, sound receiving ability and photographic ability will really push the translator to a diversified market. Translators are transitioning to integrated hardware similar to smartphones, which may be an opportunity for iFLYTEK in the future.
There is a way in the art industry: open the battle of the industry with in-depth experience.
At present, the market audience of translation machines is mainly concentrated in tourism scenes. For the crowd, they mainly have the opportunity to travel abroad and yearn for the experience of individual travel, but they lack sufficient local language communication skills.
However, in fact, translators still have the possibility to further open up the market: in business, travel, negotiation and other scenarios, the market for translators with professional capabilities is actually a vast blue ocean.
This requires the ability to translate from basic travel tools to professional scenes. This is another language barrier that iFLYTEK 3.0 has overcome: the possibility and practice of professional translation.
Following the launch of the industry A.I in December 2018. After the translation function, iFLYTEK translator 3.0 has added new industry AI translation scenes, covering seven major industries, including health care, foreign trade, sports, finance, energy, computer and law.
Using industry AI translation capabilities, users can change many scenarios where it is impossible to use machine translation. For example, the SUV is a car, which everyone knows, but in the medical scene, it means standardized intake value. Only through AI training based on huge industry corpus data can such vertical domain machine translation be realized.
The breakthrough of this barrier means that the new market is opening to iFLYTEK translation machines, and at the same time, it also provides more possibilities for ordinary people to meet with the world.
The Stone of other Mountains: a dialect War close to the Real needs
Another important factor in the pain points in the use of translators is that the user may have Chinese dialects, and the conversation object may also have English dialects.
In fact, this is an event with a very high probability. The target users of translation machines are often middle-aged and elderly people who travel abroad, and it is very common for them to have dialect accents. When traveling abroad, we often find that local businessmen and service personnel basically speak English with a strong accent. The combination of the two will greatly reduce the value of the traditional translator.
Thus it can be seen that if the translator wants to be closer to the real demand, it must make use of AI technology to provide more flexible dialect understanding and output ability.
We know that dialect recognition and translation have always been the technological advantages of iFLYTEK. IFLYTEK translation machine provides exclusive support for Chinese dialect translation, including Cantonese, Northeast, Henan, Sichuan and Mandarin with accents, as well as Putonghua and Cantonese translation function, Uighur and Mandarin translation function, Tibetan and Mandarin translation function.
When it comes to foreign dialects, iFLYTEK translator 3.0 also makes a big deal at once. Support the translation of English (Canada) English (UK) English (New Zealand) English (India) English (Australia) French (Canada) Bengali (India) and other dialects.
It is not difficult to find that the iFLYTEK translation machine, which has entered the 3.0era, is on the way to meet the real scene and real needs. IFLYTEK, which came down from the examination paper, began to attack the translation difficulties in the real world.
After the three passes, of course, there is still a long way to go. As long as the Tower of Babel of language remains, tower climbers can never stop.
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