The enthusiasm of the father, mother and baby chicks has promoted the rapid iteration of education hardware. From intelligent early education machine, learning tablet, companion robot, to translation machine, translation pen, to dictionary pen, the equipment of modern students has evolved for several rounds.
In the dictionary pen market segment, among the three largest players, "Netease Youdao, iFLYTEK, and Sogou Tangmao", Netease Youdao has the most iterative and intensive: in 2017, the translation egg was released, in 2019, the second generation dictionary pen was released, and in 2020, the third generation dictionary pen was released. But in the third generation, in addition to the professional version of Youdao Dictionary Pen 3, which has the strongest title today, it is also divided into Youdao Dictionary Pen 3, Dictionary Pen X3 and Children's Dictionary Pen K3 just released in May.
In addition to the professional version and enhanced version of the second generation on sale, NetEase Youdao has a total of 6 dictionary pens on sale, covering all price segments, unmatched. The ability to iterate many times in a short time is due to Youdao's emphasis on the education field on the one hand, and the market's recognition on the other.
Why buy a dictionary pen?
Sir, times have changed. Because of the social nature of educational products, let's start with popular science.
Dictionary pen, as its name implies, is a device that replaces a dictionary and provides dictionary definition or translation through OCR optical character recognition. It is impossible for traditional dictionaries to quickly look up words in seconds. A pen can replace all kinds of Chinese English dictionaries, Pinyin dictionaries, and the complete set of idioms, truly lightening students' schoolbags.
One thing to say, compared with mobile phones and children's watches, I think the priority of buying dictionary pens for students is higher. Dictionary pens are smart devices more suitable for students/children than mobile phones. They are more "safe" than learning tablets and electronic dictionaries. Like the Kindle, it is at most a instant noodle cover, but it will not become a "little overlord game machine that will bring endless aftertaste to the 80/90 generation", nor will it become a mobile phone that will be in the minds of the 00 generation.
The mainstream dictionary pen is aimed at the middle and later stage of K12 middle school students' foreign language learning needs, while the lower grade students need Chinese content such as literacy, literacy, idioms, etc., which is relatively rare. However, from Youdao Dictionary Pen 3 to the release of Youdao Children's Dictionary Pen K3, which added the "interactive point reading" function designed for young children, it proves that children's dictionary pens also have a huge demand from the side, which is a manifestation of the verticality of the dictionary pen market.
The goal of Youdao Children's Dictionary Pen K3 is to cover down the language learning needs of children aged 3 to 12 who were "forgotten by the market" before. Because it is a dictionary pen specially designed for children, the official position is actually a companion language learning tool.
If there are children at home, or nieces and nephews who have just been born, it is estimated that we all understand that the current preschool education market is a typical "only to say that the water inside is very deep, and we can understand everything". It is hoped that the intervention and dimension reduction of Youdao and other big factories can squeeze out the water inside as soon as possible.
appearance
From the packaging and appearance design, we can know that Youdao Children's Dictionary Pen K3 is a product customized for children. 133.83 * 31.1915.79mm, 57g, is the normal size of dictionary pen. How do you describe it? We can use the correction fluid used by the elderly when we were young.
Although the industrial design of Youdao Children's Dictionary Pen K3 is to children's taste, it is not too scientific or too young. Even if it is used after the age of 12, it will not offend.
The machine body is round and fine grained, close to the texture of skin like coating, but there is no hidden danger of aging and coating. 1.9-inch touch screen, 2.5D glass, large button with radian and red decoration. It feels very good. I can't help playing with it, I like it。
Finally, for occupational diseases, I specially looked at the LCD screen with sub-pixel arrangement and standard RGB arrangement, which has no PWM and does not hurt the eyes. LCD will never be a slave!
System UI: True · Children's Optimization and Customization
Youdao Children's Dictionary Pen K3 has only two buttons: power supply and home page. It can be used with eyes closed. Cartoon and dynamic icons will have corresponding physical feedback jitter every time they slide, Interesting。
In order to turn pages less, many dictionary pens often use "microscope font size" to force users to look closer. While the font and icon of Youdao Children's Dictionary Pen K3 have been magnified, which will naturally encourage users to watch from afar, with its own physical anti myopia effect.
The system interface consists of three pages, namely "scanning query, voice assistant, interactive point reading", "textbook synchronization, oral correction, word book", and "history and more settings except". Throughout the system are the virtual image of a little monkey called Matti and the voice of the baby, as well as the interactive concept of various games.
Basic point search and dictionary function
Youdao Dictionary Pen has iterated over many products. In addition to the release of self-developed AI, scanning speed, accuracy and angle compatibility have long been the bottlenecks of similar products. There is no suspense about the hardware part. Let's briefly experience the results.
The actual click speed is the speed at which you press the pen sensor. Click, release, and interpret without even a little hesitation, which makes people wonder what we were busy doing in those countless days and nights when we turned to dictionaries in junior high schools and senior high schools?
The scanning area of Youdao children's dictionary pen K3 is about 1-2cm from the pen head back, from 70 degrees to minus 45 degrees, and can correctly identify the content. Slightly reflective oilpaper, garish background and word color also have little effect. It can manually switch the pen holding direction, and it is OK for left-handed people. It supports continuous multi line entry, and can be correctly identified even when scanning quickly. As long as it is not bent and the font size exceeds the pen head size, even if it is the size of a grain of rice, Youdao Children's Dictionary Pen K3 can correctly recognize it.
And the translator has no suspense. This is Youdao's home court with its own BGM. The accuracy rate of official declaration is 98.1%, not to mention primary and secondary schools, high school textbooks may not make mistakes in modern translation algorithms. What's more, they are still facing the content of primary and secondary school students, which has failed to stir up a little wave in the CPU of the dictionary pen.
Interactive dictionary
The core of educational products is always content. Compared with hardware, software content is the lifeblood of children's products. Youdao is right: online education should be a content service business, not a traffic business. What determines the usability of Youdao Children's Dictionary Pen K3 is whether it can retain the content of 3-12 year old users.
Youdao Children's Dictionary Pen Part Supporting Picture Book Display
It is the nature of children to be active, inattentive and poor in self-control. Not to mention dictionary pens, their parents can't handle these children. We can only choose the most interactive products among similar products. It is a necessary accomplishment for modern people who are caught between inner scroll and lying flat.
Among the 21 dictionaries integrated by Youdao Children's Dictionary Pen K3, there are functions of Chinese Pinyin, ancient poems and idioms that are rare in conventional dictionary pens. This part is specially designed for young children. After all, traditional dictionary pens are for foreign language translation.
When Youdao Children's Dictionary Pen K3 scans Chinese characters, many commonly used characters are specially adapted. In addition to the classic Tian Zige, strokes, and radical descriptions, there are also word source explanations and pronunciation of real people reading. With so many words of stroke animation, picture interpretation and interactive testing, the amount of work is a headache for manufacturers.
At the end of the text interpretation, there was a bloody answer to the question No wonder they sell so hard.
Interactive point reading
The interactive point reading part is the "wealth password" of traditional point reading machine products. At the beginning of June, the firmware integrated the David Shannon Prize Collection, the Magic School Bus Natural Phonics Picture Book Set, and the Big Red Dog Clifford Set. The official OTA list also included the English graded reading of the Red Rocket, My First English Word Book, and interactive Chinese characters Oracle game cards, interactive point reading globe and other contents in line.
After all, it is an "official configuration" picture book, which is recognized in seconds and automatically triggers the corresponding function mode
The default is to follow the reading test and scoring, which is the spoken language blind killer of children. If you can't read it, the virtual image of Matti monkey will come out to cheer you up. If I were 10 years younger and returned to primary school, I could see such products, and my primary school English would be more than 60 points.
Oral arithmetic correction, voice assistant and textbook synchronization
Youdao Children's Dictionary Pen K3 integrates the oral arithmetic correction function. It can solve the "long-standing problem" of oral arithmetic without taking out the mobile phone, and try its best to dispel students' excuses for using mobile phones. Add, subtract, multiply and divide, divide with remainder, ratio size, unit conversion, and even the function of solving unary equation and "number reading". Are the tools of primary school students so terrible now?
Amazing thing is that this is a correction function. Only scanning questions will not give answers, so pupils can't find dictionary pens to cheat on their homework.
Youdao Children's Dictionary Pen K3 has the function of "long press trigger voice assistant", which specializes in "one hundred thousand why children". Children have fun and adults lie comfortably.
In order to test the endurance, I took out the original English version of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, which I had been in high school. I scanned 7 or 80 words in 2 hours, leaving 70% electricity. Standby for one night, power down about 20%. The standby power consumption of the current version of firmware needs to be improved, and it may take 2 days to recharge in normal use.
It takes about 1 hour and 10 minutes to charge Youdao Children's Dictionary Pen K3, and the charging speed is about 1.5% in 1 minute (23% in 15 minutes, 50% in 35 minutes).
summary
For the right age audience, Youdao Children's Dictionary Pen K3 is basically a product selected with eyes closed. For one thing, there are too few similar products for 3-12 years old. The main competitors are some unsystematic products such as point reading pens. Secondly, the hardware and dictionary functions of Youdao Children's Dictionary Pen K3 are very mature.
Youdao Children's Dictionary Pen K3 has good hardware. In addition to various interactive dictionaries, click reading and other content optimization required by 3-12 year old users, the release price is 799 yuan, 699 yuan around 618 yuan, which is totally worth the price. It has no psychological burden when boasting: you only have one childhood, buy it!
This year's niece's birthday gift get √, and then send a mobile power supply for Christmas. I'm really a elf ghost (manual funny. jpg).
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