Once upon a time, the voice recorder market was the world of Japanese brands, and consumers often preferred brands such as Sony and Olympus when purchasing products. Later, domestic brand voice recorders began to rise, using high cost performance to impress consumers, but at this time, consumers' recognition of domestic brands is not high. However, in recent years, with the emergence of new intelligent technology, the voice recorder market has begun to change dramatically, domestic voice recorders have begun to overtake in curves, performance and function exceed Japanese products, and the iFLYTEK H1 we recently tested is such a product.
Simple shape, deep hidden "martial arts"
iFLYTEK H1 is a lavalier-type voice recorder, the size is 95.4 * 23.3 * 11mm, weighs 53g, the shell is made of metal, with a neck clip on the back, convenient for users to fix it on the collar clip, pockets, lighter weight in a long time in the hand will not feel fatigue.
Different from the traditional voice recorder, the H1 does not have too many keys, the overall is very simple - the official is 2.5D glass, with a 0.96-inch screen, the left side of the fuselage is the recording key, the radio mode switch key, the right side from top to bottom are the power key, up and down key, confirmation key, home key and volume plus and minus keys, there is also a USB Type-C interface at the top, the interface can not only use charging, transmission data, A 3.5mm audio output interface is also provided for connecting headphones via a 3.5mm audio adapter cable.
H1 offers 360° omnidirectional radio, which is suitable for multi-person meetings or multi-person interviews, and 120° directed radio for single-person interviews or video conferences. In order to achieve two modes of reception, H1 integrates a total of 3 microphones, of which 2 pointing microphones are located in the windshield at the top of the fuselage, and the omnidirectional microphone is located under the screen, and there is also an indicator light in the pointing microphone position, which will light up red once the pop appears, telling the user to move the microphone farther away to avoid pops, which is very intuitive.
Inside the voice recorder, H1 built-in 32GB storage space, up to 180 hours of recording, so large capacity is believed to meet the needs of most users, in addition to 10GB cloud space, you can store an additional 56 hours of recording, users can put important recordings on the cloud, add a backup. In addition to its large capacity, the H1 also has built-in Wi-Fi, a Bluetooth module, and a 370mAh lithium battery, which takes 2 hours to fully charge and up to 10 hours to record at full power.
Compared with the traditional voice recorder, the shape of H1 is undoubtedly very simple, a large number of buttons are placed on both sides of the fuselage, and the small size of the screen cannot display too much information, at the same time, the fuselage has Bluetooth, Wi-Fi function, and hides a variety of "martial arts", why iFLYTEK will adopt such a design, which must start from the powerful functions of H1.
Powerful ecology Intelligent transcription
Initially, the voice recorder is a "single soldier combat" equipment, no need for other equipment support to complete the recording work, with the popularity of smart phones, equipment manufacturers began to add Bluetooth, NFC function for the voice recorder, and equipped with APP, but the APP function is very simple, nothing more than the transmission of recording files, renaming and so on. However, iFLYTEK H1 is different, it still retains the fast recording function of booting on and pressing the recording key, and the "iFLYTEK Hears" APP gives it more powerful functions such as transliteration and automatic discrimination between speakers.
In the early years, people used a voice recorder to convert speech into text after meetings and interviews, while listening to the sound repeatedly transcribed, and at the same time using a pen and keyboard to convert speech into text, which was very inefficient. In recent years, with the maturity of speech recognition, there have been a large number of online speech to text platforms, such as iFLYTEK's "iFLYTEK Hearing" is one of them, as long as people upload the recording file to the online platform and pay for it, they can turn the recording into text, which greatly reduces the workload, so this type of service is very popular with text workers.
On H1, iFLYTEK integrated the online voice-to-text platform with the voice recorder, which greatly improved work efficiency. H1 built-in free lifelong native recording transcription service, through the Bluetooth and mobile phone APP "iFLYTEK hear" connection can open the function, in the APP click "start recording", the voice recorder will start recording and the sound through the Bluetooth to the APP, at this time the APP will be almost synchronous speed to convert the received recording into text, directly displayed on the screen.
H1 has built-in 8 national languages and 2 minority languages, supports 12 Chinese dialect transcriptions, can cover common languages, and built-in vocabulary covering 16 professional fields such as finance, e-commerce, law, etc., can further improve the recognition accuracy, such as the following figure is sony's own creation of the word "Bravia" can be recognized and spelled out, according to the HKUST iFLYtek official statement, H1 transcription accuracy of up to 98%. If the user needs to transcribe a very niche field, you can also manually add audio keywords to help the APP accurately transcribe.
In the meeting or interview, we often encounter a mixture of Chinese and English and many people speaking, for example, foreign companies especially like to say, "This product is responsible for China Team", at this time H1's Chinese-English mixed read transcription and automatic distinguishing speaker function comes in handy. The former can recognize the speech Chinese, English at the same time, and effectively transcribe into text, users no longer have to worry about the speaker's mouth from time to time to pop out of the English words, the latter will be based on the voice tone, accent and other characteristics, according to different speakers to divide the text into paragraphs, to deal with the interview is simply half the effort. After the recording, the APP converts English text into Chinese and acts as a translator assistant. In addition to the above characteristics, iFLYTEK also considers that the Bluetooth transmission bandwidth is small and the small water pipe is difficult to withstand the pressure of 32GB of large capacity, so it provides Wi-Fi fast in the APP, allowing H1 to connect the mobile phone through Wi-Fi network and quickly transfer recording files.
Smartphone is our most commonly used electronic devices, it is lightweight, powerful, screen size and touch input text determines that it is difficult to become a powerful productivity function, so iFLYTEK also considers the actual needs, "iFLYTEK Hears" also provides a PC version, in H1 through the USB interface to connect to the computer, you can achieve transcription and other functions, combined with the computer physical keyboard, can burst out a more powerful force.
epilogue
Compared with the traditional voice recorder, iFLYTEK H1 is very powerful, and on the basis of the recording function, it has developed real-time transcription and post-translation functions, which greatly improves production efficiency, and provides mobile APP and computer client, which can flexibly adapt to different occasions. If you have to pick the disadvantages, it is that the built-in lifetime free native recording transcription service is tied to the hardware and account, and it is slightly troublesome for multiple people to share and use.