Rewrite the Technological Landscape

On July 28, Meng Qian took the team to Yanjing by plane.

At this time, Yanjing is full of the atmosphere of celebrating the Olympics. The electronic screens outside the shopping malls are playing Olympic promotional videos. The shops in the downtown area are uniformly displaying "Yanjing Welcomes You", and the merchants have launched various Olympic-themed products, Fuwa has become the most common toy model in the hands of children.

In such an environment, Dafeng Group held a press conference in Yanjing with the theme: Hi-Tech Olympics.

This press conference adopted a global live broadcast method. At one o'clock in the afternoon, Meng Qian came to the stage to start.

"As the Olympics approach, more and more people from home and abroad will gather in Yanjing, Olympic YC City, and Huaxia. In order to provide everyone with a better Olympic environment, our Dafeng Group and the Huaxia Olympic Organizing Committee have proposed a technology The concept of the Olympics, we will provide you with four conveniences through technology, namely, communication convenience, payment convenience, transportation convenience and life convenience.

Today, we will launch our Dafeng Group products around these four conveniences to help the Olympics.

Next, our colleagues from Dafeng Group will introduce several products today. "

Meng Qian stepped down after making an opening, and the next one to come on stage was Shen Lin, who was also the youngest spokesperson today. Meng Qian brought him here on purpose, just to practice his courage and strength. In the stage performance, Meng Qian has high expectations for Shen Lin.

Shen Lin was somewhat nervous after taking the stage, "As a grand event of global concern, the Olympic Games will inevitably attract audiences from all over the world to China, so in this process, we will inevitably face a problem, that is, communication barriers.

For this reason, our country has recruited thousands of staff and volunteers to undertake the translation work, but in order to further facilitate everyone's communication, our company finally successfully completed a technology research and development and product development before the Olympic Games.

What I will bring to you is the translation software and translation machine of our Dafeng Group. "

There were some confused voices at the scene. How should I put it? In 2008, the translator was still a very avant-garde technological product, but many people were a little unfamiliar with this product and didn’t understand it. As the first product at the beginning, everyone would be puzzled. How powerful the thing is, in fact, a successful translator can be regarded as black technology.

In the face of everyone's doubts, Shen Lin was relatively calm, because as expected, "some translation software and translation machines have appeared one after another over the years, but it has to be admitted that even the most mature translation software and translation machines on the market now There are two most fatal problems in all translators. There are few languages ​​that can be translated, and the translation accuracy is not satisfactory.

Today's translation software and translation machines can only satisfy some of the most basic word queries and the most basic simple communication, and are more used in the field of pure written translation. In the field of voice translation, there has been no one that satisfies users. The product.

At the Olympic Games, it is obvious that what we need is a product that can realize speech recognition and accurate translation, and we can no longer be satisfied with the languages ​​of two or three countries.

However, anyone who is engaged in the translation software industry knows that how to identify and understand the huge language library has become the first obstacle in the development of translation technology. To achieve more perfect translation, we must solve this problem , Fortunately, our Gale Group has found a solution. "

Shen Lin turned aside, and several large characters appeared on the big screen: Deep Neural Network.

Seeing these words, the audience's reaction began to change, and I immediately felt that the product was much taller.

"I believe that many friends have already thought of our panda recognition technology at this year's Worldwide Developers Conference, and yes, we have extended this technology to translation.

The work of a translator is inseparable from three core technologies: automatic speech recognition, machine translation and speech synthesis.

Thanks to our company's major breakthroughs in the field of deep learning in the past two years, we use a deep neural network with a large number of nodes to learn translation knowledge from the corpus by ourselves.

After the sentences in one language are vectorized, they are transmitted layer by layer in the network, converted into a representation form that the computer can understand, and then through multiple layers of complex conduction operations, a translation in another language is generated. Realized the translation method from understanding language to generating translation.

The biggest advantage of this translation method is that the translation is fluent, more grammatical and easy to understand. Compared with the previous translation technology, it can be said that it has directly crossed a dimension.

At the same time, we introduce deep learning research in the field of machine learning into the training of acoustic model for speech recognition, and use the pre-trained multi-layer neural network to improve the accuracy of the acoustic model.

Let us compare the performance of the products below. "

The next thing Shen Lin did was to compare the difference between the company's translation software and several mainstream translation software currently on the market. The difference is naturally huge.

Machine translation based on artificial neural networks is not at the same level as traditional machine translation. The translation machine launched by Dafeng Group must be compared with the products of iFLYTEK ten years later, but it is not comparable to other translation machines in the same period. Compared with the translation machine of the company, it is completely a spike.

There was applause.

In the next step, Shen Lin began to compare the company's translation software and translation machines, "There must be many friends who will find it strange that since the mobile phone can download translation software, why do we need a special translation machine? It is to take care of those who do not have a smartphone. users?

Of course not, our translation software is indeed very powerful, but it is not enough if we want to meet deeper business needs and in-depth travel needs.

At this time, the value of the translator is reflected. As an independent translation machine, the translator has many further advantages. The most basic is the speech recognition ability, which is very critical.

You can look at the big screen. Our company’s translators use four-mic pickup noise reduction technology. We have done statistics. Most of the scenes where translators are used are very noisy, and current mobile phones do not have special noise reduction technology. , which will affect the speech recognition of the product.

Secondly, the translator can be equipped with more dedicated hardware. I believe all the engineers here understand that the long-standing theory of unlimited software has never been tested by the market. In fact, there is an upper limit for software.

Language translation requires a huge amount of calculations, which is a huge challenge for hardware, and software translators can be better equipped with professional hardware to achieve further professionalism in translation.

So what can our translation machine do, we can watch a video of how to use it.”

The video aroused another hot discussion on the scene, "When you come to Yanjing, the people who are most likely to meet are Yanjing people. We Chinese people all know that Yanjing people speak with a Beijing accent, and this kind of Beijing accent, our translators The machine can understand.

We will further challenge dialects across the country within our company. "

There was another burst of applause at the scene, and no one felt that this product was not worthy of being on stage, "After introducing our products, it is time to talk about how our products will be used in the Olympic Games.

First of all, let's take a look at the price of the translator. The price of this translator that can translate in 32 languages ​​is 1999 yuan.

For friends who have long-term business and travel needs, we still recommend that you consider buying directly. We will have certain promotions recently.

For short-term users, in order to allow more people to experience our translators, we launched a rental model during the Olympic Games. We have established more than 100 rental points in Yanjing, Shanghai and other cities. Everyone You can use our translation machine by renting. Of course, some simple translations can be realized by downloading our translation APP. "

The translation machine of Dafeng Group has a special significance. It will realize the practical application of the technological breakthrough of artificial intelligence deep learning network in the first half of the conference.

The intelligent translator seems to be a small product, but it has opened the door to the application of deep learning network invisibly.

In fact, the two commercial applications of deep learning in the future will be speech recognition and face recognition.

It is precisely because of this that a product that made everyone skeptical at the beginning, after the product introduction, aroused everyone's greater expectations for today's conference.

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