Sogou Dictation will make stenographers unemployed. How many human fields will artificial intelligence invade?

Artificial intelligence is becoming the hottest topic in the technology circle. If a technology company does not have the R&D and planning of artificial intelligence projects, its employees will be embarrassed to greet people on the street. But what good news has artificial intelligence brought us? Google uses artificial intelligence to play Go, and Apple uses it to report weather and set alarms for users.

Recently, Sogou officially launched "Sogou Dictation", a shorthand tool mainly for journalists, editors, writers and other text workers. It focuses on solving the problem that voice records are inconvenient to organize, share and trace later. It is the best solution to the problem of transcribing long voice content based on machine learning in the current scientific and technological community. It is also a concrete example of the implementation of artificial intelligence technology to solve strong user needs.

The support for long speech and the recognition rate of up to 97% can even allow Sogou Dictation to directly replace the work of conference stenographers.

Powerful and practical, Sogou Dictation will become a new favorite for text workers

In the past, speech transcription has been a headache for text workers due to its extremely low efficiency. Even for experienced professional stenographers, it is a very torturous task to trace back speech records when typing errors are made or the speed of the speech cannot be kept up.

The same is true for reporters or editors organizing interview audio. Faced with numerous audio files and long progress bars, finding important speech clips is sometimes like looking for a needle in a haystack.

These issues are the user pain points that Sogou Dictation pays close attention to. Sogou Dictation can quickly find the location of key information through audio or generated text like a music program, solving the backtracking problem in multiple dimensions.

Not only that, the power of Sogou Dictation is also reflected in its support for writing articles, recording interviews, recording meetings, organizing notes, daily notes and other scenarios, helping users to achieve efficient recording and information input. And for different scenarios and needs, Sogou Dictation can support two modes: "Dictation" and "Transcription". In the "Dictation" mode, the recognition results can be given in real time while recording, and the text will appear as soon as the voice falls; while in the "Transcription" mode, you can record offline, and get the text results at one time after the recording is completed.

At the same time, in order to improve the efficiency of text editing, Sogou Dictation has also added humanized functions such as listening and editing, wireless key points, multi-terminal synchronization, and information sharing, which greatly improves the efficiency of recording and makes text editing easier. In addition, for scenes such as libraries and coffee shops where it is not convenient to speak loudly but voice is used, Sogou Dictation provides whisper recognition technology, which can still accurately recognize people's speech when the volume is as low as 30 decibels, avoiding the embarrassment of users "talking to themselves".

Sogou is looking for vertical applications for voice recognition technology without any intention of showing off

Artificial intelligence technology is booming, favored by the science and technology field, and even regarded as the ultimate problem solver for mankind. However, the functions currently realized by artificial intelligence are more like cold technology demonstrations, and there are few killer applications that target user needs and solve user pain points, truly connecting artificial intelligence technology with our lives.

Sogou Dictation is such an application. Behind its implementation is Sogou's powerful self-developed voice team and more than 260 million voice big data every day. With the support of deep learning of massive real corpus data, the voice recognition accuracy of Sogou Zhiyin Engine is getting higher and higher, and the application scenarios are becoming more and more extensive.

In fact, in the research and development of speech recognition technology, Sogou alone has many competitors in China. However, through insight into user needs, Sogou did not fight with competitors in the limited field of input methods, but chose to open up a new battlefield and conduct new explorations in user vertical scenarios, targeting text workers who have a strong demand for speech transcription and editing functions.

Unlike other AI players, Sogou is not keen on showing off AI's fancy functions and powerful computing power. Instead, it is more willing to listen to users' voices and transform cold technology into warm, practical functions and excellent user experience to solve practical problems for users. This may be a better interpretation of AI technology at present.

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.