Sogou AI Recorder E1 is both a "recording studio" and a "translator", breaking the traditional boundaries

Affected by the epidemic, many companies have recently chosen to work remotely, and schools have also adopted online teaching. There are many situations and jokes in remote meetings and live teaching, many of which have become hot searches, allowing people to smile a little in the serious social context.

As a member of the "corporate slave" community, I need to work remotely from home like everyone else. When it comes to work, I face different meetings every day. Usually, I have to take notes while the meeting is in progress. If I am not focused, I will easily miss important information and be criticized. Not to mention that as a clumsy person, the speed of taking notes sometimes cannot keep up with the speed of the boss's speech. After the meeting, I need to spend a lot of time to summarize the meeting, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it is unbearable.

Survival of the fittest, modern society is an era of efficiency. In the context of a society where efficiency is paramount, in order to continuously improve your abilities and maintain your core competitiveness, you also need powerful work productivity tools to assist you in completing tedious work. In the face of long meetings with fast speech and many arguments, using a voice recorder to record the details of the meeting is a good way. There are many good voice recorders on the market, but only a few are inexpensive and good-looking. Whether the Sogou AI Voice Recorder E1 you got this time suits everyone's taste, let's take a look at the actual strength of Sogou E1.

If you only look at the outer packaging when you first get it, it is simple and elegant, without any extra flaws. Instead, you will be attracted by the product picture in the middle of the box at first glance. Different from the stereotyped black and thick voice recorders on the market, Sogou AI Voice Recorder E1 vaguely reveals a sense of fashion and cutting-edge. It has to be said that the appearance of E1 leaves a lot of impression in the eyes.

The back of the box shows in detail the many highlights of Sogou E1.

Appearance

After unpacking, today's protagonist appears in front of us, the Sogou AI Voice Recorder E1. Its square cylindrical body, with a dark blue matte color, reveals a restrained, low-key luxury, which also fits the mature and stable temperament of professionals in the workplace. There is also a power cord reminder label at the bottom of the E1 box. You can open the bottom cover with a light pull, which is convenient and quick. From these small details, you can feel the sincerity of the Sogou design team.

The power cord interface is the mainstream Type-C interface. Android users can carry a data cable for general use. In emergency situations, it can also be powered by a mobile power supply. It can be said to be quite convenient.

The size of Sogou E1 is 193*100*50.3mm, and the weight is 93.5g. In order to demonstrate it intuitively, a 1 yuan coin is used for comparison. It can be clearly seen that the thickness of Sogou E1 is at 2/3 of the coin, and the length is about the width of 5 coins. If E1 is compared with Sogou's previous recording products, the size is definitely much larger. However, sacrificing some convenience brings more prominent functions and more convenient operability. First of all, E1 is equipped with a 1.54-inch full touch screen, which can view the effects of voice transcription and Chinese-English translation during use, so that users can get real-time feedback and record and mark key points in time. Secondly, E1 also allows users to quickly switch functions through the touch screen to deal with various emergencies that require recording.

The most attractive part of the Sogou AI Voice Recorder E1 is the two Harman directional microphones on the top of the device, which are like cute eyes looking forward. The core buttons of E1 are set below the touch screen. The three buttons are Mark, Stop, and Record/Pause. The operation is not complicated and can be used by users of all ages.

performance

As a voice recorder, the recording of sound is its fundamental competitiveness. Sogou E1 has a high-fidelity Hi-Res audio sampling rate. The mainstream sampling rate is about 44.1kHz, 16bit, and E1 raises its own standard to 96kHz, 24bit. The high standard sampling rate can record the original voice of the speaker to the maximum extent. The advantage of this is that when you want to sing or have occasional inspiration, you can take out E1 and turn it into a "recording studio" to record the music inspiration, and then you can organize the recorded master at any time. E1 is equipped with WiFi function, which has a faster data transmission speed than Bluetooth. E1 also supports cloud synchronization function, which ensures the security of your data while transmitting data, and you no longer have to worry about data loss.

The basis of recording lies in the microphone. E1 places two Harman 10mm directional microphones in the hollow part of the upper body, combined with the 6 hole-type omnidirectional microphones in the middle and lower parts of the body, which can adapt to various usage scenarios. Whether it is a press conference site at a certain distance from the speaker, or a conference room with a large number of people and heated discussions, the 8-microphone array technology is enough to support Sogou AI recorder E1 to receive the speaker's voice in an orderly manner. Assisted by the clairVoice 8-microphone array algorithm and the pureVoice AI intelligent noise reduction algorithm, it can achieve functions such as noise suppression, human voice interference suppression, and reverberation removal, focusing on the sound of the sound source, and recording clearly and completely. The post-AGC technology automatically adjusts the volume to keep the sound stable, solving the problem of the volume fluctuating due to the speaker's movement during recording, thereby presenting a perfect sound record.

For "social animals" who have been working in society for many years, they are already able to deal with other people's requests with ease. For example, the boss speaks in "fluent" plastic Mandarin, and then asks you to summarize his speech within 30 minutes and submit a meeting minutes to him. The previous operation process was to use a recorder to play the sound, then turn on the voice recognition input method to convert the voice into text, and record the key points and speaking time during the conversion process. This process is cumbersome and time-consuming. This time, when using E1, I found that these problems were solved. Based on the huge text library and professional voice library of Sogou Input Method, E1 supports 20 languages ​​and also includes a variety of dialects. In addition, it imports professional terms in five major categories: medical, IT, politics and law, finance, culture and sports, which greatly reduces the error rate caused by the presence of a large number of nouns in the translation process. The recording transcription is combined with Sogou Zhiyin TMNLP intelligent summary function to automatically extract keywords in the meeting, and can quickly form a professional meeting minutes. During the voice conversion process, you can also use the M key to mark the missing important points for subsequent sorting and verification.

Actual experience

According to the official introduction, the E1 transcription has an accuracy rate of up to 98%, but in actual use, some problems were found. When the speaker speaks in dialect and the speed is too fast, the recognition rate of E1 is not that high and decreases to a certain extent. But what is gratifying is that in the scene of multiple people arguing in the conference room, E1 transcription can still maintain a high recognition rate. The most important point is that it will not confuse the voices of many speakers.

In addition, the simultaneous translation function was tested using the video of Kelly McGonigal's TED speech "How to make stress your friend". The results were unexpectedly good, with an error rate of around 1.2% and a translation recognition delay of less than 0.8 seconds, which is a pretty good result.

There are many ways to use Sogou AI Voice Recorder E1. In addition to using it at work, it is also often used in learning, especially in English learning. When practicing speaking, record your own pronunciation, and use the transcription or real-time translation function. When E1 can accurately recognize your English pronunciation, it means you have passed. When you encounter pronunciation errors or inaccuracies, use the M key to mark them. Later, you can quickly locate the errors in the recording during review, practice repeatedly, and correct them in time.

Listen to others and have an interesting life. In the fast-paced society, work and life all need to record good and bad voices from time to time. This is not only a memory of life, but also an experience of survival. A practical voice recorder will surely become the "standard" in the future. The Sogou AI Voice Recorder E1 is priced at 1,000 yuan, coupled with powerful performance and versatile features, and is bound to stir up a whirlpool in the voice recorder industry.

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.