Alpha Egg Smart Dictionary Pen S Review: Connect to Huawei's smart ecosystem to create the best learning experience

In our primary and secondary school years, dictionaries were a must-read reference book for our Chinese teachers. The academic pressure on students at that time was not as exaggerated as it is today, but the heaviness of schoolbags was still a major concern for us and our parents. A thick dictionary would undoubtedly greatly increase the burden on our shoulders. As we got older, we also had to look up dictionaries in English classes, which made the daily commute to and from school even longer.

Nowadays, competition is unprecedentedly fierce, and children's study pressure is further increased. I believe that parents are also aware of this and feel pain in their hearts. Fortunately, with the development of technology, small electronic devices can at least reduce the physical burden on children, and dictionary pens that can hold several dictionaries in the body of ordinary stationery have begun to become popular.

However, although most of the reading pens now have built-in professional dictionaries and can realize rich functions, they are still not easy to use when scanning and reviewing. The Alpha Egg Smart Dictionary Pen S, which is connected to the Huawei smart life ecosystem, provides us with a new idea.

As a product designed for children, the Alpha Egg Smart Dictionary Pen S is light and compact, weighing only 58g, so it can easily fit into a pencil case. The body surface is made of ABS material, which feels comfortable to hold. The material is also non-toxic and drop-resistant, so there are no safety or damage risks when children use it.

Many dictionary pens on the market today have a common problem that has not received enough attention: the system is stuck and the interaction does not conform to user habits. The Alpha Egg Smart Dictionary Pen S has made significant improvements to this problem. Not only is the system very smooth, but it also thoughtfully adds a left-swipe return function, making the operation logic closer to that of a mobile phone and more intuitive to use.

These improvements in details make the Alpha Egg Smart Dictionary Pen S more comfortable to use than similar products from the very beginning.

What do we look for most when buying a dictionary pen?

Users have clear requirements for products like dictionary pens: complete and fast.

Comprehensive means that you should be able to recognize more words, have richer meanings, and preferably be able to learn more subjects. In other words, a good dictionary pen must have a full range of knowledge.

Alpha Egg Smart Dictionary Pen S is built around the real needs of children's daily learning. It has 20 dictionaries built in, such as the Oxford Advanced Learner's English-Chinese Dictionary (9th Edition), the Modern Chinese Standard Dictionary, as well as commonly used reference books such as the English-Chinese Dictionary, the Chinese Dictionary, and the Appreciation of Ancient Poems and Prose, with a cumulative vocabulary of 4.2 million. Although there are many dictionaries, they are not messy. Users can choose the dictionary definitions to be displayed first according to their own usage habits.

In daily use, the Alpha Egg Smart Dictionary Pen S can provide fast and detailed translations of common English words, covering everything from word parts, variants to common fixed collocations and phrases. No matter how well students master words, they can further deepen their understanding of the words.

In order to eliminate "dumb English", Alpha Egg Smart Dictionary Pen S has also added a pronunciation check function. After following the words, the system will automatically score based on the pronunciation to help users make improvements.

The "all-in-one" feature of the Alpha Egg Smart Dictionary Pen S is not only reflected in English learning, but also in Chinese learning. Children will inevitably encounter new words when studying Chinese textbooks, and if they want to fully master new words, in addition to knowing how to pronounce them, they also need to know how to write and how to use them.

After scanning new words with the Alpha Egg Smart Dictionary Pen S, you can not only know the pronunciation of the new words, but also see the correct stroke order, meaning, and common word combinations. Only by fully understanding from the three perspectives of sound, shape, and meaning can children master new words more deeply and completely.

At the same time, the Alpha Egg Smart Dictionary Pen S also has a rich collection of ancient poetry resources. In the test, we specially selected a less popular poem "Meeting Feng Zhu in Chang'an" from "Three Hundred Tang Poems". As a result, after scanning only the first sentence, the whole poem's interpretation, background introduction and author's introduction were given. If you scan a more well-known poem, there will be poetry recitation accompanied by music to help children feel the charm of traditional culture.

When it comes to learning ancient Chinese literature, the Alpha Egg Smart Dictionary Pen S is equally powerful. Just scan the title of Han Yu's famous work "On Teachers", and the full text and detailed explanation will appear immediately.

It should be noted that the "Three Hundred Tang Poems" and "On Teachers" scanned during the test are not specially produced for dictionary pens, but publications available on the market. This also reflects the rich built-in resources of the Alpha Egg Smart Dictionary Pen S and its flexibility and convenience in use.

In addition to the complete content, the accuracy and speed of the dictionary pen's scanning are also important indicators that affect users' purchasing decisions. Many products on the market often have incomplete or chaotic scanning, especially when scanning whole sentences in lines. If it is not convenient and fast, no matter how rich the resources of the dictionary pen are, it will never be good to use.

The Alpha Egg Smart Dictionary Pen S integrates the industry's first deep neural network hardware acceleration unit (NPU) with a speed of up to 400GOPS, is equipped with a wonderful 120-frame high-speed camera, and is paired with iFlytek's OCR technology, allowing the scanning and recognition speed to reach 80 words per minute and the recognition accuracy rate to reach 99%.

Since we didn't have any elementary school textbooks, we used high school textbooks with higher printing density to test, which increased the difficulty of the test. The results proved that the Alpha Egg Smart Dictionary Pen S is not a waste of materials.

Even after two line changes, the Alpha Egg Smart Dictionary Pen S still accurately scanned the entire sentence and gave a complete and fluent translation in a short time without the stiff feeling of machine translation, which can help children understand the meaning of the sentence more accurately. Similarly, the Alpha Egg Smart Dictionary Pen S can also read the sentence in standard British or American pronunciation, helping children in oral learning.

It should be emphasized that this test was conducted on high school textbooks, and the Alpha Egg Smart Dictionary Pen S performed impeccably. Therefore, I believe that the Alpha Egg Smart Dictionary Pen S can also easily handle elementary school textbooks with large characters and sparse lines.

To add icing on the cake, the Alpha Egg Smart Dictionary Pen S also has a voice assistant function, which can easily answer questions in Chinese, mathematics and English.

Connect to the smart ecosystem to maximize strengths and minimize weaknesses

The vocabulary book has become a standard feature of dictionary pens today. On the one hand, this kind of function is important and necessary for reviewing and consolidating knowledge, but one of the core design concepts of dictionary pens is lightness, so the screen size is generally around 2 inches. You may not think there is any problem when scanning, but when you need to review, such a screen is very inconvenient to operate or view.

In response to this, Alpha Egg Smart Dictionary Pen S also provided its own solution: connecting to Huawei's smart life ecosystem.

After connecting with the Huawei Smart Life App, you can view the words learned on the Alpha Egg Smart Dictionary Pen S on your phone. The interface in the App is similar to that of a general dictionary App, and the display of word meanings is more detailed, making it easier for children to learn more deeply.

After learning is completed, the App will automatically generate a learning report, which will provide detailed statistics on what content was queried, the ratio of English to Chinese, the degree of vocabulary mastery, dictation records, assessment scores, etc. Based on these data, children can carry out targeted consolidation.

Due to its size, dictionary pens are not suitable for reviewing. The idea of ​​the Alpha Egg Smart Dictionary Pen S is to take advantage of its strengths and avoid its weaknesses. By linking with the mobile phone, this work is transferred to the mobile phone, which is naturally more suitable for this task. It can also be seen that this product was fully considered from the beginning of its design, considering the user's usage habits and pain points.

In the past, when we talked about the Internet of Things, we thought of the linkage between "big items" such as mobile phones, furniture, and cars. However, the Alpha Egg Smart Dictionary Pen S made us realize that "small items" like these in daily learning and life can also burst out with stronger energy after being connected to the Internet ecosystem.

The powerful, easy-to-use and intelligent Alpha Egg Smart Dictionary Pen S is definitely the best learning assistant for children.

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.