Children's education is the focus of every family, and no one wants children to lose at the starting line. Especially for the new generation of parents, they are nourished by all kinds of intelligent devices all day long, so it is natural to consider how to use intelligent devices to reduce the difficulty of educating children, or to improve efficiency and quality.

Take the tail for example, there is a 7-year-old boy at home. When his son was still young, he liked to look for various mobile apps, which was called intelligence enlightenment; Later, I hoped that the screen would be larger, and I began to use a tablet; Later, in order to pursue sound quality, we began to use products combining flat panel and sound; Since last year, many so-called educational robots have been used.

Looking back, we can't say that such apps are ineffective or that these products are not good. They have also played a certain role in promoting education. But I started to think about it myself. With more and more demands and more high-end smart products, while enjoying the educational convenience brought by smart devices, is it not worth the loss, or is it a departure from the original intention? First, too much contact with intelligent devices too early, children's self-control is weak, and they fall into the trap of digital products. The most obvious example is that when adults get together, children hold mobile phones Pad， Where is the child's playful nature? Many parents should feel this. Second, too much contact with intelligent devices too early is a huge worry for children's eyes. There are friends around me who have begun to reflect, and there are many scientific conclusions on the Internet, which is undoubtedly a concern. These two points are relatively obvious. In the deep level, will too much early exposure to intelligent devices also have some impact on children's logical thinking, creative creation, language ability, social interaction and other abilities?

Therefore, when I got this Youjia intelligent dictation speaker provided by Lei Feng.com and understood the product in detail, I felt that the product concept of Youjia Growth Technology coincided with my own point of view. In the information age, technology has always been changing the way of learning, completely abandoning the convenience of intelligence, and pursuing the traditional way of learning is also undesirable and unrealistic. When designing products, manufacturers should focus on how to return to the original intention of education and how to minimize the "side effects" of intelligent devices in educational application exploration. I believe that for parents who have the same reflection and concern as me, these will become consumption pain points. Then, how does the Youjia intelligent dictation speaker poke these pain points and communicate with everyone through my feelings and experiences.

  『 Pain point 1. Children like to play with small things, and their attention is easily distracted. 』

It is children's nature to love playing. When they get a new device or toy, they will always play again and again. Especially if something with a strange shape is put on his desk to help him study, his attention will be attracted. Therefore, I only put school supplies on my son's desk and insisted on not using fancy products.

The cylindrical appearance of the smart dictation speaker may be too common for many people. It is really ordinary, and it can also be said that the appearance design has no characteristics. However, for Youjia, who wants to put it on the children's desk and interact with children in dictation and reading, it is just the way it should be when it returns to the speakers. It is not provocative and kitsch, so it will not attract children's attention too much. It is good to be "silent" beside it.

  In addition to the sound chamber covered by metal mesh, the Uplus intelligent dictation speaker is made of rubber materials in other places, which has certain elasticity and can play a role in fall protection. The battery and SD card are built-in, so children can not remove any parts from the optimized body, and can also prevent small objects from distracting. At the same time, there is a detail in the design. The LOGO, power key, charging interface, reset key and indicator light on the side of UniPlus are all on the back of the normal place. That is to say, when children use EuPlus normally, they can only see the metal mesh from the angle of their eyes, not the buttons on the other side, which is also to avoid attracting children's attention.

  The top is the key interaction area, which is divided into 8 keys and 1 screen area by the nine grid. Of course, we have become accustomed to the pointing of the large screen, and we may not be accustomed to returning to the key manipulation at once. However, it should be considered that Youjia is for children to use independently. Large screens can only bring more functions and needs. It is better for the screen to return to the original intuitive display function. 8 buttons, respectively providing multiple function combinations such as channel switching, track selection, play pause, volume adjustment, fast forward and fast backward, single song cycle, mode switching, text switching, etc.

My son has a smooth start. Explain to him, and he will soon learn how to operate. The learning cost is not as high as expected. However, limited to the small screen, it can only be an indication in English. It would be better if the next generation product could find a Chinese instruction scheme on the basis of ensuring the design concept.

  『 Pain point 2: primary school students' homework and many dictation tasks, but they are afraid that their pronunciation is not standard and they are afraid of misleading children. 』

At the first parents' meeting when his son entered the primary school, the teacher told his parents to cultivate their children's ability to learn independently. However, for primary school students in grade one, understanding new words is the most important task, and dictation is the best way. Many homework has dictation. Therefore, I or my wife (99% of the time is her) have to help my son complete the dictation task, one reading and one writing. At this time, there is a problem. After graduation, Putonghua is too affected by local dialects, and is always worried about non-standard pronunciation, which will mislead children. Every time, we should take a good look at the tone marks.

One of the biggest selling points of the smart dictation speaker is the dictation function, which uses the interactive dictation mode realized by voice control. According to the corresponding textbook downloaded, Youjia will prompt "XX version, lesson X, are you ready?" At this time, the son said "OK", and Youjia began to read the first new word. After the son finished writing, he said, "Next" or "OK". After receiving the voice command, Youjia would continue to read the next new word. If you don't hear it clearly, use voice commands such as "repeat" or "return to the previous one", and Youjia will also make corresponding operations. Similarly, voice commands such as "explain" or "group words" will be operated accordingly. At the same time, UniPlus not only supports dictation of Chinese characters, but also supports dictation tasks of English textbooks. Those who cannot write can also read the spelling of English words. Especially for families whose parents' off hours are not consistent with their children's school hours, it is a good solution to let the children dictate independently at home.

  The actual use effect of Youjia dictation mode is good. The accuracy rate of speech recognition is very high, and there is basically no error. In addition, this kind of dictation without parents' participation will not put pressure on the son because his parents are strict, and his learning state will be more relaxed. Moreover, this dictation mode is completely dominated by him, which is conducive to cultivating independent learning ability and good learning habits.

『 Pain point 3. Some APPs are not closely related and synchronized with children's curriculum, and the content is not targeted. 』

On the educational APP, if it can be closely linked with the children's curriculum in school, it will be more targeted as a tool for independent review and preview. However, there are not many such products on the market. The smart dictation speaker of Youjia has not developed a dedicated mobile phone APP, nor can it be connected to the mobile phone Bluetooth. Instead, it uses a data cable to connect to the computer, so that parents can update and enrich the content of Youjia through special software that is free of installation. This may seem a bit primitive, but it returns to the practical nature of the product. The relationship between Youjia and mobile phones is not strong, so you don't have to worry about affecting the cultivation of children's autonomous learning ability.

  Of course, in terms of the function of dictation, different regions in China use different textbooks. There are 15 publishers of textbooks for primary school students in Youjia Cloud, which should cover most areas. My son now uses the PEP textbook for primary school students. Select the second volume of grade one and click Download to automatically update it to the corresponding channel.

  In terms of leisure content, music, stories and other sound resources on the computer can be imported into the optimization through software, which is more targeted. When Youjia left the factory, 30 channels and 764 resources were built into the memory card, including children's songs, stories, musicals, square dramas, encyclopedias and other resources. My son's favorite is Uncle Kai's Story telling, which is something he must listen to before he goes to bed. In the past, when he listened to it on WeChat public account, it was inevitable that he would play with his mobile phone or tablet. Now I feel much more at ease with Youjia. Of course, if you don't like these content or have better content, you can delete and change the optimized channels, adjust the track order as needed, and support the autonomous printing of playlists.

  I have to say that although the size of the Youjia intelligent dictation speaker is small, the structure design of the upper and lower cavities produces good sound quality, which should be much more than I expected. However, in use, some optimization needs further optimization. For example, Chinese character dictation resources cover a wide range, but different versions of English dictation need to be enriched. In terms of music, stories and other leisure resources, Youjia does not provide options in the cloud, and can only let parents download and join from other channels. It is suggested that the next step is to establish a resource database by category to facilitate parents to download and improve the utilization rate of equipment. In addition, it is recommended that you delete resources directly. In order to delete them to the computer recycle bin, some stories were deleted by mistake once, but they could not be found on the computer. Delete carefully.

『 Pain point 4. The previous smart speakers and APPs cannot record multiple breakpoints when playing tracks, which is inconvenient. 』

As parents who have used smart speakers and music apps know, most of them only support breakpoint continuation of the last track played, which is inconvenient for children to use. The optimized intelligent dictation speaker not only supports multiple channels to switch different types of sound resources at any time, but also supports multiple breakpoint rebroadcasts.

My son was listening to Uncle Kai's story. After listening for a while, he went to listen to the Journey to the West again, or listened to other content later. Because Youjia supports full channel "independent" second breakpoints, none of this matters. It returns to the breakpoints previously recorded independently. "As a saying goes, last time the Monkey King hit Baigujing three times..."

From the characteristics of Youjia intelligent dictation speakers, we can see that Youjia Technology Growth Technology is trying to avoid the "negative energy" of intelligent devices on children's education. However, Youjia is bound to the WeChat official account. Through the special software on the computer, you can synchronize the content of the premium plus channels, as well as the list of Chinese characters and English dictations to WeChat. Personally, I don't think there are too many users. However, it has a good function, that is, you can view the new characters and strokes on each course from the public account, and it is displayed in the animation mode, which is very intuitive and convenient, so you don't have to ask Du Niang like before.

  In a word, UniPlus Intelligent Dictation Audio does not have the dazzling functions like other products on the market. Instead, its intelligence is more reflected in the voice interaction of independent dictation, and reflected in the essence of the product returning to primary school education. Simplicity and practicality are the biggest use experience. It should be said that if you don't want to let children contact with intelligent devices too much, but also want to enjoy the convenience of intelligence in children's education, Youjia is a good choice. The premise of using it is that you and your child should learn to give up and enjoy practicality.

『 Finally, the specification parameters are attached 』

Overall dimension: 75 * 75 * 64mm

Weight: 210g

Battery capacity: 1000mAh

Memory card size: 8G

Horn unit: 40mm horn+low-frequency radiator

Maximum output power: 3W RMS

Frequency response: 120-16KHz

Signal to noise ratio: ＞ 75dbA

Speech recognition rate:>97%

Continuous playback time:>10 hours