The newest synthetic intelligence gadget in China is a credit-card sized note-taking recorder from Alibaba Group Holding’s DingTalk unit, as Chinese companies introduce rival merchandise to Plaud, the favored AI note-taker developed by a US start-up.
Alibaba-backed office collaboration platform DingTalk final month unveiled an AI-powered voice recorder – capable of report and transcribe voices and current them in numerous content material codecs reminiscent of minutes – becoming a member of a wave of Chinese tech companies which are baking AI into {hardware} merchandise.
Unveiled in late August at a company occasion commemorating the tenth anniversary of the workplace software, the DingTalk A1 recorder packs numerous AI capabilities – from assembly transcriptions and summaries to real-time translation in a number of languages – right into a type issue of comparable measurement and weight to a stack of a number of bank cards.
The recorder’s transcription functionality was developed in partnership with Alibaba’s Tongyi AI lab, utilizing over 100 million hours of audio content material for coaching, enabling it to “understand” greater than 100 languages and 30 Chinese dialects in addition to jargon throughout 200 industries, DingTalk chief govt Chen Hang stated on the unveiling of the gadget.
Its AI-powered multilingual capability makes it a private “AI office assistant”, as the corporate described it, permitting any workplace employee to take assembly minutes, conduct real-time translation and summarise prolonged recordings with out human intervention.
The DingTalk A1 is available in two fashions priced at 499 yuan (US$69.98) and 799 yuan. By comparability, the newly launched Plaud Note Pro is priced at US$179.
DingTalk’s launch of its AI gadget comes on the heels of an analogous product from AI {hardware} maker Mobvoi, as extra Chinese companies experience the wave of integrating AI into devices.
In June, Beijing-based Mobvoi launched TicNote, which helps dwell transcriptions and translations of all the pieces from workplace conferences to high school lectures.
TickNote was priced at US$159.99 on the corporate’s web site and on Amazon.com.
These devices come at a time when the AI {hardware} market – excluding AI telephones and AI-integrated automobiles – is anticipated to succeed in 1.1 trillion yuan this 12 months and see fast enlargement over the subsequent 5 years, in accordance with consultancy Runto.
Liu Chuang, a researcher at Runto, stated the explosive progress in China’s AI {hardware} market was pushed by a mix of things, together with Beijing’s coverage assist for the usage of AI within the public sector, the nation’s tech self-sufficiency drive that paired native AI techniques with home {hardware}, and an AI facelift occurring throughout conventional sectors.
AI was seeing a various diploma of penetration in numerous client electronics segments, in accordance with Runto, starting from as excessive as 90 per cent in robotic cleaners to round 50 per cent within the private pc trade, the place manufacturers from Lenovo to Huawei have been racing to undertake AI into their merchandise to spice up client enchantment.
The consultancy anticipated the Chinese AI {hardware} market to greater than double by 2030, reaching 2.5 trillion yuan.
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