Sogou launches new AI voice recorder to lead the “new voice” in the voice recorder industry

On February 26, Sogou held an online launch event for its new AI voice recorder, titled "Together in the Same Boat". In addition to the official launch of two new AI voice recorders, S1 and E1, Sogou also launched the Forbidden City co-branded S1 and C1 Pro products in cooperation with the Palace Museum. The two newly released core products have once again upgraded the voice recorder product experience with industry-leading AI technology, and continue to promote the AI ​​process of the voice recorder industry.

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AI empowerment creates a "new category" of AI voice recorders

When people mention Sogou, they are mostly impressed by its national-level input method and the second largest search engine in China, with its business focus mainly on the Internet application field. But in fact, based on its "language-centered AI strategy", Sogou has actively laid out its layout in the field of smart hardware a few years ago. In the past year, it has made frequent moves in the field of voice recorders, becoming the pioneer of AI voice recorders.

In March 2019, Sogou launched the AI ​​voice recorder C1, the industry's first "new form" of AI voice recorder that integrates dual-microphone array, real-time transcription, cloud sharing and other functions. Since its launch, C1 has maintained impressive performance on multiple mainstream e-commerce platforms, and the upgraded version C1 Pro launched later has also been well received by users.

In addition to the outstanding performance of its products, in August 2019, Sogou also joined forces with four leading companies in the industry, including Patriot, Newmine, Sony Voice Recorder, and Wancheng Group, to establish the AI ​​Innovation Alliance and announced the opening of dictation services to the entire industry, leveraging its own AI technology advantages to empower its partners.

The upgrade of product form and the change of industry development direction directly caused a chain reaction in the market, bringing new vitality to the voice recorder industry, which has not seen any new developments for many years. In less than a year since the launch of C1, the new product category of AI voice recorders has occupied a considerable share in the overall voice recorder market, and users' attention to voice recorders has also increased significantly.

Using industry-leading AI technology to promote the transformation and upgrading of the traditional voice recorder industry is both cross-border and innovative, both revolutionary and empowering. In this process, Sogou not only created a new category of "AI voice recorder", establishing its position as "pioneer in the AI ​​era of the voice recorder industry", but also opened up dictation services and established an AI innovation alliance, driving the voice recorder industry to successfully complete industrial upgrading from three directions: products, technology and industrial chain.

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With four major functional upgrades, the voice recorder industry has ushered in a "new sound state"

The two new products S1 and E1 launched at this conference have further achieved a comprehensive breakthrough and upgrade in product functions based on C1, and have once again improved the user experience through industry-leading super-strong sound pickup, accurate transcription, efficient organization and all-round translation capabilities.

When using a voice recorder, we often encounter situations where the human voice is not clear due to various noise interference. Sogou AI Voice Recorder S1 solves this problem well with the industry's first AI noise reduction function. In terms of hardware noise reduction, S1 is equipped with 2 Harman directional microphones and 6 omnidirectional microphones. The microphone array algorithm can effectively filter out noise interference during the recording process. On the basis of hardware noise reduction, S1 also sets up a deep AI noise reduction function based on the pureVoice AI noise reduction algorithm, which can filter more than 40,000 real noises, making the human voice recording clearer.

In the face of the problem of poor transcription experience caused by various factors such as accents and professional vocabulary during the transcription process, these two new products have also been well upgraded to achieve a transcription accuracy rate of up to 98%. While supporting real-time transcription of recordings and transcription of recording files, it also has enhanced recognition capabilities and can identify different speakers, greatly improving the user experience. In addition, both products support recording and transcription in 10 languages ​​including Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, and German, and 10 dialects including Sichuan, Guangdong, Tianjin, Shaanxi, and Guizhou. In addition, the language models in five professional fields such as finance and trade, medical care, IT technology, politics and law, and culture and sports created by the Sogou Voice team after a long period of training have also been applied to this new product, greatly improving the recognition accuracy of industry-specific vocabulary.

In addition, the new products released this time also provide a good solution for the situation where the recording time is too long and the text after transcription is too long, and there are many recording files, which are time-consuming and laborious to search. Using the industry's first intelligent summary technology, these two products can automatically refine the theme and key sentences of the recording manuscript, making it convenient for users to organize the transcribed content, and they can also use voice to find the recording content. With the support of cloud storage technology, users can also automatically synchronize and manage recording data on multiple terminals such as voice recorders, mobile APPs, web pages, PC clients, etc., and realize convenient operations such as one-click export and scanning code sharing.

In addition, in order to allow users to better obtain information, these two products are the first in the industry to apply the personal simultaneous interpretation function, which is very suitable for listening to English reports, watching American dramas, etc., and also supports WeChat applet multi-person access and sharing of translation content. Surprisingly, S1 also supports online translation of 63 languages ​​around the world and offline translation of 9 commonly used languages ​​such as Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, French, and Russian, and has a free dialogue translation function, which can realize free communication in multiple scenarios, freeing users' hands and bringing users an efficient communication experience.

The four AI voice recorders released by Sogou this time are another application of Sogou's many AI black technologies in voice recorder products, which will bring another iteration and upgrade of the voice recorder product form. Just as the iPhone leads the traditional mobile phone industry into the smart era, Sogou AI voice recorders are also leading the entire voice recorder industry into the AI ​​era.