Chapter 50: Input Methods and Translators

Although the Tiantian Assistant has a cute image and a sweet voice, many users felt incredibly angry upon hearing this:

"Are you kidding? We've already paid for membership, and now there's a premium membership? Will there be gold membership and diamond membership in the future too? Has Su Xin become so money-grubbing?"

"It's disgusting, to think they'd pull this stunt!"

"I will absolutely not pay any more money. No matter how useful your functional plug-ins are, I will never download them."

Some users angrily closed the main interface of the Tiantian Assistant, while even more users suppressed their displeasure and chose to download it to try it out.

The functional plug-in finished downloading very quickly.

The users immediately chose to try it out.

Because the input method is perfectly embedded into the functions of the Tiantian Assistant, it is indeed extremely convenient to use, as if the Tiantian Assistant had possessed the input method function all along; there is no need to wake it up separately, which further improves the convenience of using the phone for the vast number of users accustomed to the existence of the Tiantian Assistant.

Especially when chatting using communication tools like WeChat, one only needs to call out a friend's nickname or contact note to enter the chat interface directly, then start saying what one wants to say, and finally say a set ending phrase, such as "send," "go," etc., to directly send the converted text.

The most critical point is that as a voice input method, the Tiantian Input Method has the same powerful voice recognition capability as the Tiantian Assistant; it is not only accurate but also extremely efficient, and even if one's Mandarin is not standard, it can automatically correct it based on the meaning.

Unless it is truly far from standard Mandarin, one only needs to actively make appropriate corrections.

And some text workers, after trying it out, kept exclaiming "holy crap."

The long-voice recognition that the Tiantian Assistant spoke of so nonchalantly was even more powerful than they had imagined!

When ordinary people use a voice input method, they usually use it to chat and send messages, so the requirement for the recognition accuracy of the voice input method is actually not very high; the existing voice input methods on the market can basically satisfy their usage, and even if the Tiantian Assistant's voice recognition is more accurate, many people would not go so far as to spend extra money for it.

And the portion of ordinary users willing to spend money often value the convenience after the input method and the Tiantian Assistant are perfectly integrated, with recognition accuracy being secondary.

But for text workers, they input thousands or tens of thousands of characters a day, possibly even several tens of thousands, and most of it is long-voice continuous input lasting several tens of minutes or even one or two hours.

Their requirements for voice recognition accuracy are much higher and much more sensitive than those of ordinary people.

After all, voice input methods on the market are not only slow to recognize, but during the process of long-voice input, errors or omissions often occur, causing them to have to spend a lot of time specifically on checking and editing after they finish inputting.

This not only wastes a lot of time but also easily makes them mentally exhausted.

And after trying the Tiantian Input Method, they were surprised to find that even if they input continuously for an hour, there were basically no errors or omissions in the thousands of characters of content; even for a name, it could automatically match the most accurate and appropriate one based on the context and general naming rules, with very few errors.

Most importantly, even the paragraphing and punctuation would be automatically matched according to the content of the text and the cadence of the tone.

This kind of powerful voice input method can at least improve their work efficiency by two or three times.

Some relatively famous text workers, such as great web novel authors, reporters, copy editors, etc., spontaneously praised the Tiantian Input Method on social platforms and used videos to demonstrate the magical effect of the Tiantian Input Method's long-voice recognition, increasing the popularity of the Tiantian Input Method quite a bit.

Of course, that is a story for another time.

After trying the Tiantian Input Method, many users turned their attention to other functional plug-ins.

Small functions like the alarm clock go without saying; their effects are much the same as those on the market, but there was one other plug-in that the Tiantian Assistant highlighted.

That is the Translator.

Some users who frequently need to go abroad couldn't wait to download the Translator; the memory usage was also small, and it finished downloading very quickly.

The Tiantian Assistant revealed a sweet smile and explained: "The Tiantian Translator possesses real-time accurate translation functions. Currently, it only supports synchronous translation between Long and Eagle languages. You can choose real-time voice conversion or choose to display it as text. If users wish to try it, they can open any Eagle-language movie and order Tiantian to translate it, and Tiantian will translate the words in the movie into Long language in real-time, or it can also do reverse translation into Eagle language!"

Over these years, the economy of the Long Country has been developing better and better, and many people have some spare money in their hands, so they like to travel abroad; in recent years, the number of people traveling abroad has reached over one hundred million annually.

Not to mention those going abroad for studies, going abroad for business, etc., the number of people going abroad annually is nearly two hundred million.

And among these people, in fact, most do not know Eagle language, or only know some of the simplest daily phrases; for example, many people just get by in the world relying on "YES" and "NO."

As for communication with foreigners, they either hire a translator or use sign language.

Of course, there are translation machines now.

But they cost at least several thousand yuan; not to mention the expensive price, the recognition and translation are also relatively stiff, and the expression of meaning is not accurate enough.

Most importantly, they cannot translate continuously; they can only converse one sentence at a time. If it is a multi-person communication or some scenario that requires real-time continuous communication, it will fall into chaos.

For example, meetings, phone calls, face-to-face continuous communication, and other such scenarios, the translation machine basically loses its function.

And when some people tried the Tiantian Translator, they were surprised to find that it almost perfectly fulfilled the role of a professional translator, and was even more practical than a professional translator.

For example, when one of the users happened to be on the phone with a foreign friend, they were surprised to find that the Tiantian Assistant automatically lowered the volume of the Eagle language spoken by the other party until it was only barely audible, while what was transmitted into their ears was clear and logical Long language, and the tone and attitude were consistent with the Eagle language on the other side.

And the Long language they spoke was also immediately responded to by the other side; clearly, this kind of bilingual translation is carried out synchronously.

This is practically equivalent to letting the two people on the call learn each other's language simultaneously, making communication barrier-free.

This kind of powerful, accurate, and efficient Translator, after being explained and tested by several big influencers, immediately became a hit across the entire internet, attracting the attention of many netizens with needs to go abroad.

What surprised them even more was that the Tiantian Assistant is a piece of software that leans towards being a standalone tool; these functional plug-ins, like the Tiantian Assistant itself, can all be used normally offline, whether going abroad or to the middle of nowhere, it will not affect usage.

Of course, if the trial period ends and one wants to continue using it, one still has to go online to top up and become a premium member of the Tiantian Assistant.

And the monthly fee for a premium member of the Tiantian Assistant is 30 yuan.

This price, wanting all users to support it, is still somewhat unrealistic.

But in the eyes of some users who have a need for these few functional plug-ins, this price can be described as quite a bargain.

Whether it is the input method or the translator, both are far more powerful than similar software on the market, and it is a powerfulness that is far ahead.

What's more, according to the instructions of the Tiantian Assistant, premium members can download and use all functional plug-ins without limit, which not only includes the existing ten functions but will also continue to develop more practical functions in the future.

This is extremely tempting for many people.

Because anyone with even a little bit of insight can see from these programs that Su Xin has developed one after another that Su Xin's technical level in Artificial Intelligence is indeed far ahead of the whole world.

With Su Xin's level placed there, the functions developed in the future will definitely not be bad.