Alpha Egg AI Dictionary Pen X10: A personal tutor in a pencil case

In today's internationalized era, English proficiency has become an important part of personal competitiveness. Many parents hope to train their children to be "bilingual children" from an early age.

However, children in China generally lack an English-speaking environment, and there is really little that parents can do in this regard. At this time, they may need the help of advanced tools.

In recent years, the mushrooming of dictionary pen products in China is a testament to this trend. Among many brands, Alpha Egg stands out with its intelligent operation and rich content.

This month, Alpha Egg launched its latest product, Alpha Egg AI Dictionary Pen X10 (hereinafter referred to as "Alpha Egg X10"), which has the industry-leading oral scoring technology for the college entrance examination and the senior high school entrance examination, a four-dimensional oral scoring system, and built-in special exercises for oral questions in the college entrance examination and the senior high school entrance examination, and 238 simulated exam questions, allowing the dictionary pen to evolve from an "electronic reference book" to a "portable private tutor."

Say goodbye to dumb English

The Alpha Egg X10 is made of metal and has a larger screen area than many similar products, which makes it look more stable. However, the weight of the entire dictionary pen is still within a reasonable range, so even children will not feel it is too heavy when using it, and it is suitable for carrying in a pencil case.

Common dictionary pen products on the market focus on the query and interpretation of text content, but more or less ignore the equally important spoken language, and their functions are basically limited to scoring the user's pronunciation.

But for language learning, the most important thing is to shape the complete context. For example, both "good" and "well" mean "good", but when should we use "good" and when should we use "well" in daily conversation? This kind of question cannot be answered without the real English conversation context.

Alpha Egg X10 has noticed this problem and has built-in two modules: "English Listening and Speaking" and "Oral English Specialty", covering a large number of learning resources from elementary school to senior high school. It uses a scenario-based approach to let students not only know the meaning of English words and sentences, but more importantly, understand how to use them.

The "English Listening and Speaking" module is divided into three modes: repetition, following, and weak point practice. In the repetition mode, students can choose the corresponding theme according to their grade, including country, society, study, entertainment, etc., to help students better understand the common context of each word, and also subtly understand the customs and practices of some foreign societies.

The follow-up mode is closely tied to the textbooks used by students. After selecting the corresponding textbooks, you can follow the Alpha Egg X10 to learn the contents of the textbooks. The operation is very convenient. Looking back on my student days, we were still using tapes and CDs, which were inconvenient to operate. Today's students can simply operate with a pen, which makes people want to say: "I look at you and am full of envy."

The content in the "Oral Special" module is more life-oriented. In addition to reading short articles, it also provides richer functions such as situational questions and answers, topic briefings, role-playing, story retelling, etc. In this mode, oral practice is no longer limited to reading aloud, but should be integrated into children's thinking, making the practice closer to the scene of real English conversation, thus creating a strong language environment at home.

After the questions are answered, Alpha Egg X10 will automatically give a score based on the student's answer, and list the complete meaning of the original text, the correct answer, alternative answers, etc. This user experience is more like doing a reading comprehension question, which can help students understand the facts and the reasons, thereby naturally improving their oral English level.

In order to solve the problem of "dumb English", Alpha Egg X10 breaks away from the stereotype of repeating and instead takes on the role of a "teacher", allowing students to really find the feeling of dialogue. This solution is undoubtedly more scientific and easier to achieve results.

Intelligent user experience

What kind of dictionary pen product can bring an excellent user experience? Simply put, it must be smart enough.

The so-called smartness, on the one hand, refers to the high accuracy of scanning, and the accurate recognition of Chinese and English words and complete sentences without the need to scan a second time. On the other hand, it means that the explanations must be accurate and comprehensive, so that students can master the knowledge points more comprehensively.

Alpha Egg X10 excels in both aspects.

First of all, in terms of scanning speed and accuracy, the Alpha Egg X10 ranks among the best of similar products I have used. Take the most performance-testing line scanning as an example, the Alpha Egg X10 can achieve one-pass scanning, and it can scan and translate at the same time, and you can see the results immediately when you lift the pen.

From the perspective of adults, higher scanning accuracy brings a better user experience. However, for the real target users of this product - students, especially younger students, high precision means a lower usage threshold, which can make this product truly useful in their hands.

The content richness of Alpha Egg X10 is also outstanding. It has built-in more than 20 reference books such as the "Oxford Advanced Learner's English-Chinese Dictionary" and the "Modern Chinese Standard Dictionary", covering 4.2 million Chinese and English words as well as various ancient Chinese texts and documents. It can be called an encyclopedia in a pencil case.

When you scan English words with Alpha Egg X10, in addition to the basic definitions, it will also display supplementary knowledge such as cognates, common phrases, word form changes, etc. You can gain a lot of knowledge points by scanning a word.

Scanning the complete sentence will display examples with similar usage to help students draw inferences from one example. At the same time, students can also be graded for reading aloud to find out deficiencies in their oral English.

Scanning Chinese characters with Alpha Egg X10 will directly display the pronunciation, stroke order, variant characters, ancient Chinese usage, English translation and other related knowledge.

Another thing worth mentioning about the Alpha Egg X10 is its translation ability. In the test, I specifically picked a word that is not often used, "red", which has no standard corresponding translation in English, which also brought a great test to the translation ability of the dictionary pen.

Faced with this "difficult problem", Alpha Egg X10 gave the answer "red and glowing", which is perfect. From this simple example, we can see that Alpha Egg X10 does not rigidly follow the rules of translation, but gives the most appropriate and fluent translation. To achieve this effect, a rich vocabulary and powerful AI technology are indispensable.

In addition, Alpha Egg X10 can also be of great help to children in learning ancient Chinese. Just scan the title of an ancient poem with it to display the full text, annotations, translation, background introduction, author introduction and other knowledge points. In addition, we deliberately did not choose the matching reading book in the test, and the title was in an unusual vertical layout, but this was not a problem for Alpha Egg X10, which shows that it has excellent flexibility in use.

The voice assistant is also an important function of Alpha Egg X10. In addition to basic questions such as vocabulary, new words, and arithmetic, you can also ask it some knowledge-related content. For example, if you ask "Who is Li Bai", it will show Li Bai's main life and representative works, etc. This also reflects the excellent AI capabilities of Alpha Egg X10.

As a smart dictionary pen, the screen size of Alpha Egg X10 is outstanding among similar products, but dictionary pens need to be portable after all, which means that the screen cannot be made too large. For children, staring at this small screen for a long time will inevitably hurt their eyes.

In order to solve this problem, Alpha Egg X10 chose to "ask for help". This product supports linkage between the App and the mobile phone. The tests and marked new words on the dictionary pen can be viewed directly on the mobile phone, and it also supports printing new words books to help children review at any time.

In addition, the mobile phone App and Alpha Egg X10 can also achieve synchronous display. After scanning on the dictionary pen, you can view it directly on the mobile phone, which is especially convenient when studying at home.

Through the dual-screen linkage solution, Alpha Egg X10 cleverly overcomes the limitations brought by the size of the dictionary pen, and distributes functions that are not suitable for this type of product to the mobile phone, which is another manifestation of the "intelligence" of this product.

In general, the Alpha Egg AI Dictionary Pen X10 uses excellent AI technology to create a scenario-based teaching environment, opening up a learning path for children from superficial knowledge to in-depth understanding and flexible application of knowledge, making this product particularly outstanding in the highly homogenized dictionary pen market. From this, we can also see the R&D team's in-depth research on the learning scenarios of contemporary family children.

The Alpha Egg AI Dictionary Pen X10, which is both a tool and a "teacher", is undoubtedly one of the most worthwhile learning hardware to buy this year.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.