In language learning, whether it is Chinese or a foreign language, the ability to "listen and speak" is very important, so countless parents have purchased a variety of listening learning equipment for their children - whether it is a tape repeater more than ten years ago, or various online listening apps today, just to immerse children in the sound of vocabulary, sentences, and articles for a long time, to achieve "smoked listening", so that listening and speaking skills can be subtly improved.
Recently, educational audio brand Hearing Bear has launched a new generation of listening learning machine T6. The new generation of listening machine T6 not only has a wealth of built-in audio teaching materials and listening resources, but also combines listening education and AI, and introduces the conversational artificial intelligence TeeniGPT in the hearing machine to realize natural language dialogue practice.
So, with the blessing of AI, what is the experience of using the hearing bear T6 hearing machine? The following is the Hearing Bear T6 hearing machine experience report brought by I Love Audio Network.
Guided tours
- Hearing Bear T6 hearing machine product unboxed
- Packaging & Accessories
- Exterior details
- Hearing Bear T6 Hearing Machine Hands-on Experience
- System interaction
- Listening resources
- AI Experience: TenniGPT Dialogue and "AI Patting"
- Hearing Bear T6 hearing machine data measurement
- Weight measurement
- Charging and battery life
- I love audio.com summary
Hearing Bear T6 hearing machine product unboxed
Packaging & Accessories
As a hearing device specially designed for school-age children and teenagers, the packaging style of Hearing Bear T6 is very young and fresh, the packaging box is mainly in vivid yellow, the front is painted with a hearing machine product picture, and the TEENI BEAR brand name on the right is very eye-catching.
The left side of the package is marked with the brand name Teeni Bear Hearing Bear.
On the right side of the package, the brand Slogan "Do Professional Smart Listening Machine" is labeled.
At a glance on the back of the package, the six characteristics of T6 are marked on the top: synchronous learning of teaching materials, AI picture book recognition, AI situational dialogue, professional graded listening, genuine listening resources and Chinese and English word dictation, and the technical parameters and manufacturer information of the product are below.
The packaging is designed for heaven and earth box, after opening the package, take out all the items as above. The packing list for the Hearing Bear T6 Hearing Machine includes the listening machine, charging cable, and user guide.
Charging cables at a glance, USB-A to Type-C cable.
Exterior details
Look back at the product. The Hearing Bear T6 Hearing Machine looks like above, with a screen, four-way arrow keys, OK button and back button on the front, and a speaker below.
On the back of the hearing machine, a camera is set up, and below is the logo and regulatory information of the hearing bear Tenni Bear. In addition, in the upper part of the back of the listening machine, a lanyard hole is also provided, and the details are worthy of praise.
The left side of the hearing machine is equipped with power button, volume button, reset hole and Type-C charging interface.
The right side of the listening machine is set up with the "repeat button", and in the listening scene, the repeat function can be realized by short press and long press.
On the top of the hearing machine, a 3.5mm headphone jack is set up for connecting wireless headphones.
Hearing Bear T6 Hearing Machine at a glance.
Hearing Bear T6 Hearing Machine Hands-on Experience
System interaction
Long press the "power button" at the top of the left side of the hearing machine to turn on the hearing bear T6 hearing machine. When the phone is turned on for the first time, the listening machine system will prompt you to connect to the network, and then enter the main interface of the system.
The system interaction of the T6 hearing machine is similar to that of mainstream smartphones, under the main interface, the main functions of the hearing machine will be displayed on the home page, such as "My Audio", "Graded Reading", "AI Patting", etc.; Swipe left to enter the negative screen to open the shortcut function, and swipe right to "graded listening" function.
In terms of interactive logic, the T6 listening machine is a combination of "touch screen + button" control scheme, which can be directly operated by fingers on the listening machine, and the system can recognize operations such as sliding to turn pages, tap and so on; It can also be operated via a four-way button at the bottom of the screen, similar to a traditional feature phone.
At the same time, under any interface, slide down the status bar to bring up the notification control bar, which can control the audio being played, view the download progress, etc. Moreover, long pressing the return button can also enter the "lock" state to avoid misoperation.
However, there are no "swipe back" and "go home" gestures in the system, so returning to the previous page needs to be achieved through the back button at the bottom of the screen.
In addition, the system also provides an app called "Time Management", which can be set to play a certain audio or teaching material at a regular time. This function should be very useful for the student party, for example, the texts that need to be memorized can be played regularly after getting up every day, and the "smoked listening" effect can be recorded in the mind.
However, we also found a small display problem in the textbook function of the system - because the screen of the listening machine is small, fewer letters can be accommodated on a single line, and the system does not have the correct "word breaking" function built-in, so when displaying the text text, there will be a problem of wrong line wrapping at the end of the line. It is expected that in subsequent versions, Hearing Bear will fix and improve this problem.
In general, the overall interaction of the hearing bear T6 hearing machine is still very simple and easy to use, the interaction of touch screen + physical button is convenient enough, and the system logic is relatively simple and intuitive, which is not too difficult for school-age children or most parents to get started.
Listening resources
In terms of teaching materials, the main axis of learning resources, the Hearing Bear T6 listening machine supports teaching materials for three stages of elementary school, junior high school and high school, and includes various teaching materials from multiple publishing houses. Taking English as an example, the English of the first grade of primary school alone includes dozens of versions such as Longman, Beijing Normal University, Hangzhou, Cantonese and Xiangshao, and basically covers texts, vocabulary lists, and recordings of after-class exercises.
In addition to English, textbooks for all grades and subjects are also included. I love audio network found in the textbook menu that the T6 listening machine even includes high school mathematics, physics and chemistry and literature and history textbooks, and the scope of textbooks can be described as quite large, even if high school students use to "listen" to political classes to achieve memorization, there is no problem.
It is worth noting that in addition to basic teaching materials, vocabulary and other resources, T6 also has many additional fresh resources, and for users of all ages, targeted genuine resources are covered.
First of all, for the English enlightenment of preschoolers, the listening machine covers the most popular graded reading series in the field of English enlightenment: raz-kids, Oxford tree, TCM, Big Cat, Heineman, STEAM subjects, etc. For students in primary and secondary schools, the listening machine also has 21st century students' English newspapers, sunshine youth newspapers and other national primary and secondary school campus key recommended magazines and periodicals to meet the needs of reading, listening and speaking outside the classroom and textbooks.
In addition, in the "Age Recommendation", there will be "Today in History", "Sunshine Blog", "Good Words" and other themed content sections, and in the "Brand Zone" App, there is also access to Himalayan children, pocket stories and other brand platforms, for students who are tired of learning and reading textbook content, through these additional content, you can subtly improve your language level in the pastime.
The above resources can also be quickly retrieved through the search function of the "My Audio" section and the "Age Recommendation" section, which is convenient to quickly find the content you want to learn and listen to in the massive resources.
Finally, if the built-in resources are insufficient, the T6 listening machine also gives the option of "DIY" - you can transfer audio files to the listening machine through the computer through a USB connection, or you can realize cloud management and playback of listening files through the built-in Baidu network disk App.
AI Experience: TenniGPT Dialogue and "AI Patting"
Compared with previous hearing machines, one of the major features of the Hearing Bear T6 hearing machine is the ability to introduce "AI" in the machine. Specifically, T6's AI functions focus on "TenniGPT" dialogue and "AI photo recognition".
First of all, in TenniGPT, the "spoken conversation" function of English is the most important application scenario. After entering the spoken dialogue page in the listening machine's menu, you can communicate naturally with TenniGPT in voice form, and the recognition of speech is very accurate.
And, after testing, I found that TenniGPT is a fairly clever AI model. AI can respond to any sentence in a targeted manner, and the response is natural and accurate; In terms of safety, we found that TenniGPT also does not speak inappropriately and does not negatively affect school-age children and adolescents.
In addition to AI speaking practice, TenniGPT's text AI functions also include AI translation, English word explanation, English composition generation, Chinese good words and sentences, Chinese verse generation, etc., for example, you can say to TenniGPT "write an 80-word essay on the topic of campus life", and the AI will generate a high-quality article in a short time.
The most interesting is "AI storytelling", TenniGPT will automatically generate interesting stories according to conditions, and has a clear depiction of the character characteristics of the protagonist of the story, which is quite magical.
In terms of the "AI pat" recognition function, the Hearing Bear T6 hearing machine uses AI to realize real-time text recognition of objects, animals, and textbooks taken by the camera. The recognition rate of AI is generally more accurate, and it can be accurately identified for common items in life, such as water bottles, fans, mobile phones, etc., and after identification, it will give the Chinese and English vocabulary correspondence, English example sentences and related encyclopedic knowledge of the items, which is very informative. Moreover, this function itself is fully entertaining, which is quite suitable for children to "learn while playing".
In general, the addition of AI has enhanced the interactivity of the hearing bear T6 hearing machine. TenniGPT realizes natural, fluent, low-cost oral dialogue practice, AI recognition is fast and convenient, and these AI functions themselves have a certain degree of entertainment, so that children can gradually enhance their cognition of language while playing, which can be described as the "effective use" of AI.
Hearing Bear T6 hearing machine data measurement
Weight measurement
After testing the hearing bear T6 hearing machine using a high-precision scale, I love audio network found that the total weight of the hearing machine is 115.9g, and the weight sense in the hand is similar to that of a conventional mobile phone, which is suitable for daily outing.
Charging and battery life
After using CHARGERLAB POWER-Z professional tester to charge the hearing bear T6 hearing machine, I love audio network measured that the wired charging power of the hearing machine was 4.4W.
In terms of battery life, I love audio network measured that in the boot state, the continuous screen time of the T6 hearing machine is about 7-8 hours. The hearing machine system has a built-in automatic shutdown function, which automatically shuts down after 5-30 minutes of inactivity to save power.
I love audio.com summary
To learn a language, "listening and speaking" is one of the abilities that cannot be ignored, and the hearing machine is a device that allows users to "listen" subtly to improve their listening and speaking ability.
With the introduction of AI technology, the Hearing Bear T6 hearing machine realizes natural and smooth oral dialogue interaction and fun and convenient photo recognition, which greatly enhances the functionality and entertainment of the hearing learning machine.
If you are looking to buy a device for yourself or for your child that can "smoke" hearing, and you have special requirements for the training of conversation skills, then the Hearing Bear T6 hearing machine is worth trying.