Halfway through February, it means a new semester is just around the corner for students. But for many students, the new semester means new challenges, need to spend more time to delve into knowledge, but we all know that learning not only requires time but also scientific learning methods, the most prominent of which is English, as one of the three main subjects, how many students "mourn", if students fail to find a sufficiently scientific learning method in time, it is easy to do half the work.
However, with the iteration and update of technology, students no longer need to flip through the dictionary to look up words, but it is still a loss of time and energy to find spelled words or long sentences through mobile phone translation APP, and to a certain extent, it will still affect the learning efficiency.
Because of this, a brand new product was born, that is, the more popular scanning translation dictionary pen at present. In the past, learning English required repeatedly looking through thick dictionaries, and the semantic correctness of words could not be guaranteed. Nowadays, a small dictionary pen can play the role of a professional English teacher, and even in terms of portability, it is far better than traditional tutors. In the context of "double subtraction", this translation pen is equivalent to a private foreign teacher, with comprehensive functions, allowing students to really go further from listening, reading, writing and other aspects.
However, new problems have also emerged. There are many kinds of dictionary pens on the market, and the price ranges from a few hundred yuan to a few thousand yuan, how to choose to find a suitable price and fully functional dictionary pen product for children?
Xiao Lei 499 yuan started a small degree intelligent dictionary pen to chat with everyone about the use experience. The thesaurus and translation accuracy of the official promotion of this product are among the best in the market, as for the effect, it is not much to say let Xiao Lei personally experience a wave.
Smaller than a phone, lighter than a phone, but more practical than a phone
Although the Xiaodu Intelligent Dictionary Pen is completely different from the traditional smart phone digital product, Xiao Lei was still a little surprised when he picked up this product. Especially the back of the aluminum alloy shell, not only can effectively improve the product's anti-fall and scratch-resistant performance, of course, the most important thing is to greatly enhance the quality of the product itself, to know that most of the competitors on the market are plastic shell design, not only easy to fall, but also make the whole product reveal a full sense of cheapness.
The front of the Xiaodu Smart Dictionary Pen is equipped with a 2.98-inch screen that can fully display the translation results required by the user. It is worth praising that in order to make the overall feel of the product more comfortable, Xiaodu also specially made the whole screen into a 2.5D full-mirror screen with a certain curvature, which has the advantage of making the transition between the screen and the border more smooth, and it will not have the slightest feel to hold.
Inside the pen head is a camera and a "fill light", in the power-on state, as long as the pen head fill light is pressed, it will light up and start the recognition and translation work. Xiao Lei measured it and found that even in the surrounding dark environment, the small dictionary pen can still achieve accurate scanning recognition, completely unaffected by the surrounding ambient light, which is a very humanized small detail, and further expands the user's use environment.
On the left side of the fuselage of the small dictionary pen, we can see a power button and a speech button, and press and hold the speech key to immediately start speech recognition and translate in real time.
At the top is the type-C interface and dual microphones, which ensure the radio effect and bring a better real-time speech translation experience.
On the back is the product logo and a speaker that automatically voices after scanning the content.
Sweep when you use it, sweep it out
Of course, as a learning hardware, it is not enough to have an excellent appearance, but the most important thing for students and parents is how it is actually used, and whether it can really play a role in improving the efficiency of student learning.
After lighting up the Xiaodu Intelligent Dictionary Pen, we can see that its home page lists eight options for scanning queries, voice assistants, listening and speaking exercises, dialogue translation, tape recorder, vocabulary book, query history, and settings, and users can choose different modes according to their learning needs.
Among them, scanning query is the main function of the small degree dictionary pen, and it is also the most concerned point of the user. After Xiao Lei's actual test, the time from scanning to displaying the translation results cannot even be used for a second, that is to say, in the process of the user lifting the pen and preparing to view the translation results, the Xiaodu dictionary pen has completed the relevant translation, and the relevant sentences will be played out by voice.
According to the official claim, the Xiaodu Dictionary Pen is equipped with the Oxford Advanced English-Chinese Dictionary (9th Edition), which is currently the most authoritative on the market, with 3.65 million offline Chinese and English entries. The amount of this word is not to mention primary school and middle school, it is more than enough to use it in college and even the workplace.
The dictionary pen contains many words, which is not enough, and more importantly, it is important to be able to translate the correct meaning of the words and not to mislead students. For example, a typical polysemantic word like fix, the small degree of intelligent dictionary pen can list all the correct interpretations on the screen, and will give corresponding example sentences for students to better understand.
In the use of Xiao Lei also found that in addition to the regular word translation, such as what sentence translation and phrase translation are not under the words, the key is that its translation speed will not be slower because of the number of words. When Xiao Lei was ready to stop testing, Xiao Lei's colleagues asked a rather tricky question: "Can you translate across lines, I think it is still a bit troublesome to translate sentence by sentence." ”
Fortunately, the small degree of intelligent dictionary pen did not disappoint me, not only can scan multiple lines of sentences at once, but also the accuracy and translation speed are quite fast, even to the surprise of this Colleague of the eighth level of English.
Almost forgot, the Xiaodu Intelligent Dictionary Pen also supports content recognition of a variety of materials, whether it is printed text on traditional books, handwritten sentences or English words on mobile phone/computer screens, it can be quickly recognized.
Pure English/American pronunciation, to assist primary and secondary school students to practice authentic spoken Language
Although in terms of translation, the performance of the small dictionary pen makes Xiao Lei very satisfied, but we all understand that in english, it is not enough to know what words mean, the most important thing is how to let children know this word, how to read this sentence.
In response to this, I don't know if you remember the voice button mentioned above, pressing it can summon a small voice assistant to ask questions, and you can let it teach children English with pure pronunciation. It's also a boon for parents, who no longer have to worry about misleading their crappy accents.
Of course, it also supports real-time speech translation, the most important thing is also to support automatic two-way translation in Chinese and English languages, press and hold the voice key, if you speak English, it will translate the Chinese and read the translation results, and vice versa. It is easy to communicate with foreign friends, of course, the use of this way of simulating real dialogue is also helpful for oral practice, or when we need to translate a Chinese sentence into English, it is much more convenient and efficient to say it to a small dictionary pen than to use a mobile phone to translate the APP.
When primary and secondary school students query the new words, they can also hear the British and American pronunciation of the new words. In this way, it is not only conducive to children repeating new words and deepening their memory, but also to learn the pronunciation of new words, avoiding the situation that words can be spelled and written but cannot be read.
In addition, the small degree of intelligent dictionary pen can also realize offline reading of words and sentences, natural reading, and oral scoring. I remember that when I used to learn spoken English, I first followed the CD to learn the pronunciation, and then used the repeating machine to record it and repeat it, which was very troublesome to learn, and it was difficult to find out if I read it wrong. With a small degree of intelligent dictionary pen can achieve real-time scoring of speech and reading, once the pronunciation error will be immediately corrected, not only very convenient to use, reading English is not afraid of pronunciation is not standard.
Finally, in order to allow students and parents to better understand their learning status, Xiaodu intelligent dictionary pen is also linked with Baidu APP, Xiaodu APP, users can easily query how many times the child scanned the word that day in the APP, for some unfamiliar sentences can also be added to the vocabulary book with one click for the child to focus on reviewing in the future.
Learn from the best in the hardware market
Having said all this, the price of such a well-made, accurate and fast small dictionary pen must not be low, in fact, you only need to spend 499 yuan to take this product home. To know that the price of competitors at the same level on the market is basically around 1,000 yuan, which is a big expense for most parents, not to mention that parents simply do not know whether the products bought back with more than a thousand or even more than two thousand can really help their children.
In order to experience objectivity, Xiao Lei bought the alpha egg Q3 at the same price point (699 yuan), and found that after in-depth use:
Alpha Egg supports scanning translation methods, performing equally well in translating words and long sentences, and supporting the original text reading;
In terms of query method, Alpha Egg only supports scanning query mode, and the difference with the small degree intelligent dictionary pen is mainly reflected in the appearance screen size, query method, reading method and so on.
On the whole, the basic translation function and query method of Alpha Egg can be supported, which is more suitable for young children to choose. For primary and secondary school students, the small dictionary pen with more query methods and support for real voice pronunciation is more appropriate.
Compared with most of the thousand-yuan machines on the market, their advantage is that they can support the translation of chinese, English, Western, Italian and French and other multi-Chinese words, but this function is not used by primary and junior high school students. From this point of view, the dictionary pen products that primary and secondary school students choose to use in the five-hundred-yuan file are completely sufficient.
Therefore, parents and friends still have to spend more time like Xiao Lei when choosing intelligent learning products for primary and secondary school students, and it is easy to choose products with appropriate prices, complete functions and practical functions.