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Regarding online education, what is the value of smart hardware?

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Until now, online education has been an absolute outlet industry. According to the "2018-2019 China Internet Education Investment and Financing Research Report", there were 160 investments in online education in the first half of this year alone, with a financing amount of 13.1 billion. Online education has proven to be a relatively mature market, but traditional education has been running for thousands of years. At this time, how can online education break through the problem of too closed scenes in traditional education? Where should online education go next? Chen Jing, senior investment manager of Blue Elephant Capital, believes that the education industry has reached a critical stage of sinking and scene-oriented. In this stage of online education, online education will be further deepened, and at the same time, intelligence will gradually penetrate. Smart hardware may be the next very important breaking point for online education. NetEase Youdao CEO Zhou Feng pointed out

Under the AI ​​dictionary pen race, iFLYTEK’s technology flow overtakes

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A few days ago, iFLYTEK's 2020 annual report was officially released, showing that smart education business revenue achieved year-on-year high growth of 70.68%. Throughout the entire smart education track, online education companies, offline education institutions, AI software and hardware companies, and Internet technology companies are all coveting this big cake and continue to increase it. As a strategic key business of iFlytek, Smart Education can achieve significant growth in such an industry environment, proving that the business growth logic has been verified. Behind the high growth of smart education, business is the accelerated layout of iFLYTEK's smart education hardware ecology. The iFLYTEK scanning dictionary pen, which was released in October last year, which focuses on various English learning scenarios, is a typical example. Before iFlytek launched its dictionary pen product, the entire dictionary pen market had been eyed by Internet companies such as Netease an

New Zealand government strengthens Asian language teaching, Chinese teaching is the key point

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Since August 2014, according to New Zealand China News, citing NZ China News Agency, the New Zealand government recently announced that it will invest 10 million in Asian language teaching in the next five years. This is due to the trade exchanges between New Zealand and Asian countries. Coming more frequently, the government needs to strengthen an important task of foreign language teaching.      It is reported that the funds will be used to create new Chinese, Japanese, and Korean teaching projects while expanding or upgrading existing Asian language teaching projects.    Currently, there are 160 schools in New Zealand high schools that teach Japanese, less than 40 schools teach Chinese, and only two schools teach Korean.    Education Minister Hekia Parata said that in addition to supporting the official languages ​​English, Maori, and sign language, it is also necessary to provide more young people with opportunities to learn foreign languages, especially for countries that have cl

How to learn a foreign language?

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To learn a foreign language, you need to pay attention to the correct way, from basic vocabulary, grammar, listening and reading imitation, practical application, and other aspects to learn. How to learn a foreign language? 1. Vocabulary is the foundation The most basic thing to learn a language is vocabulary. Starting from the vocabulary is the most basic. The effect of memorizing words is immediate. If you can learn the words familiarly, you will find that language learning becomes more confident. However, the vocabulary itself is a process that needs to be memorized and reviewed repeatedly. Therefore, everyone needs to continue to consolidate it. 2. Grammar is a framework If you want to learn a language better, you must connect words to form sentences. Special learning is needed so that you can quickly break through the grammar barrier. In addition, when learning grammar, you must add real exercises, and don't talk about it on paper. 3. A lot of imitation The main point of sente

What does a dictionary pen mean to NetEase Youdao?

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Educational hardware is now at the forefront of the industry. In this market, children's watches have become a category with an annual sales volume of tens of millions, and the annual sales volume of learning tablets is also several million units. In October this year, ByteDance released a smart work light, opening up a new form of educational hardware. Since then, there have been reports that Bytedance "wants to do all the mature educational hardware." Recently, NetEase Youdao released a new generation of learning intelligent hardware-NetEase Youdao Dictionary Pen 3. In Youdao Mall, there are also a variety of educational hardware products on display, including Youdao Cloud Pen, Youdao Translation Egg, Youdao Super Dictionary, etc., but the sales star is a dictionary scanner pen. Not long ago, NetEase Youdao’s third-quarter financial report showed that smart learning hardware contributed 163 million yuan in revenue, a year-on-year increase of 289.3%, becoming NetEase You

How OCR pen scanner works?

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Firstly, we would like to understand what is OCR , OCR (Optical Character Recognition) refers to the process in which electronic devices (such as scanners or digital cameras) check the characters printed on paper, determine their shapes by detecting dark and light patterns, and then use character recognition methods to translate the shapes into computer text; That is, for printed characters, the text in the paper document is optically converted into a black and white dot matrix image file, and the text in the image is converted into a text format through the recognition software for further editing and processing by the word processing software technology. How to debug or use auxiliary information to improve the accuracy of recognition is the most important topic of OCR, and the term ICR (Intelligent Character Recognition) is also born. The main indicators to measure the performance of an OCR system are rejection rate, misrecognition rate, recognition speed, user-friendliness, product

How to help dyslexia?

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Dyslexia is a learning disorder characterized by difficulties in reading and writing, as well as high-level creativity and overall thinking. Dealing with dyslexia may be challenging, but it is possible. Here we have collected some small methods and hope it is useful. 1. Use the calendar. ☺ One of the best ways for people with dyslexia to organize is to simply use a calendar. Whether it's a large wall calendar, pocket journal, or an app, using the calendar can help you remember important deadlines and dates, and use your time effectively. Don't just mark the expiration date of the date, but also the date you need to start, and any checkpoints in between. 2. Plan your day. ☺ Related to using a calendar, planning your day can help you use your time more efficiently, try to schedule things that require a lot of attention during your more productive time. Remember to include short breaks in your daily plan to recharge and refocus your brain. 3. Make a list. ☺ People with dyslexia

Why is C-PEN popular?

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C-pen is released in November 2015, but they still keep launching new models, why is it still so popular among the users? 10% of the global population has dyslexia. Dyslexia is the world’s most common disability. Most people with dyslexia never even know it, yet often dyslexia plays a central part in their daily life and more than often impacts their outcomes. Plenty has been achieved in the last 70 years (International Dyslexia Association founded in 1949), but there is still so much more to be done. We believe in investing time and energy in raising greater awareness of dyslexia and support strategies, advocating for wider diagnosis, and helping to reduce stigma. C-pen product is designed to promote independent learning for any student even the adult readers suffering from reading difficulties such as dyslexia. It reads text out aloud with American English, British English, French, and Spanish human-like digital voices. It also features embedded first-tier junior and academic diction