Our Rise Era

Chapter 228 Our voice assistant?
Early in the morning of June 3.

[Wheat Technology] Thompson, the vice president of the system department, was quietly playing with his iPhone 4S in the office.

The epoch-making intelligent voice system shocked him and made him love it.

2010 October.

Thomson got a message.

That is, iPhone Technology acquired a company called Siri and only allowed it to run in iOS.

Before, Thompson didn’t know what Siri stood for. He only knew that it was a company focused on AI intelligent voice.

later……

After iPhone 4S was officially launched, Thomson felt its amazing capabilities!
For smart voice...

Thomson is not unfamiliar. In fact, their [WEB OS] system has previously tried to develop in the field of intelligent voice and has also invested a sum of money.

But it’s a pity…

The intelligent voice they made was a completely semi-finished product, especially its recognition ability, which was in a state of mental retardation.

They often cannot respond to some questions, and even have to use standard sentences and user-specified wording.

For those questions that can be answered, the answers are also very simple, basically some specific questions...

Of course, if there is a huge processor and compression capabilities, more problems can be integrated into the system, but the problem is that this will put a burden on the entire operating system, causing the processor to become unprecedentedly hot, stuck, or even crash and restart...

"I have to admit that there is a big gap between us..."

After seeing the power of the iPhone 4S's voice system, Thompson scratched his head and suddenly felt a sense of despair from the inside out.

He turned his head...

Looking at the half-finished code on my screen.

Ever since the [WEB OS] system was acquired by Android, Thomson has been considering creating a new system that can compete with Android.

However, what makes people feel desperate is that they have completely lost the possibility of making a technological breakthrough.

No matter what you do, you are actually hovering within a framework and unable to break through it. In other words, the rules of the entire intelligent system have already been set.

The simplest technology at present is to make adjustments based on the original Android framework, while leaving the non-open source parts of the Android system alone.

……

Over the past year, he and his team wanted to make a breakthrough in voice for the [Xiaomi 3] mobile phone.

However, after seeing the intelligent voice system of iPhone 4S, he suddenly felt that his efforts of nearly a year were a joke.

Just when he was discouraged...

He heard a knock on the door.

He looked at the time.

It's three o'clock in the morning now.

Who would look for him at this time?
He shook his head, stood up, opened the door, and found Zhang Yang standing in front of him.

"Mr. Zhang Yang..."

"Mr. Thomson, I have obtained the Qualcomm S4 processor, which can provide a large part of the space for our smart voice."

"..."

When Thomson heard about S4, he was excited at first, but when he sat down and actually debugged the 4S processor, the expression on his face gradually turned into disappointment.

"What's wrong?" Zhang Yang asked with a frown after seeing Thomson's expression.

"We don't have enough. We need an A4 processor like the iPhone 5S... Actually, I made a voice package before, but it's very large, close to 1G. 1G of RAM will directly blow up the [S4] processor... It's completely unusable unless we have 10G of RAM, but 10G, what does that mean? The largest memory on the market right now is only 1G, and it's the most advanced processor. Mr. Zhang Yang, why don't we just give up the voice system project... It's totally not as good as the iPhone's Siri smart voice..."

"..."

Zhang Yang silently watched Thomson's system simulation on the computer.

After seeing the simulation code completely crash after the voice system was loaded and the phone could not run at all, Zhang Yang fell silent.

In fact...

Two years ago, after Zhang Yang poached Thomson, he has been working on Android system improvements and voice intelligent systems.

Zhang Yang invested about 5.2 million yuan in the project.

But as it stands now, the 5.2 million or so is likely to be wasted.

“Can’t it be compressed?”

"In fact, the Qualcomm 4S processor should be a first-generation processor, and its performance is not as good as the A5 dual-core processor... In addition, the Siri intelligent voice operating system is many times more perfect than our voice system. It may take us another four years, or even more time, to make a barely similar voice assistant, provided that we have a processor that is not inferior to the A5..." Thomson shook his head pessimistically.

After a long pause, he looked out the window at the dark night and said, "I'm sorry, Mr. Zhang Yang. The launch of iPhone 4S has destroyed my self-confidence and my pride... I don't even dare to look at this series of codes..."

Zhang Yang fell silent after hearing this.

The so-called development and research and development is not something that can be done overnight.

It is really a fantasy to catch up with the achievements of others that have been made in more than ten years in just two years.

Even for Thomson, who had a successful experience in [WEB OS], the difficulty of this project was no less than climbing to the sky.

"At present, we can only do Android system modifications. Apart from modifications, we can't do anything else..."

The atmosphere gradually became depressing.

The darkness outside the window is so deep.

Thomson bowed his head.

"The voice packets are over 1G. Can they be compressed?"

“How much compression?”

"We can compress as much as we can..."

"Mr. Zhang Yang, let me put it this way. If we want to adapt it to our S4 processor, we must at least compress it from 1G to 10M. What does 10M mean? If we have this technology, we will be the second Siri. In fact, we will be even more powerful than the second Siri... After all, even if our processor is not as good as others, we can still run it smoothly..." When Thomson heard this, he laughed.

"What if it doesn't take up operating memory? Can it be downloaded like an app?" "What do you mean?"

"We don't need too much intelligence. My requirement for the voice package is that it can imitate human speech and answer some daily questions..."

“Then it’s not artificial intelligence…”

"I don't need it to be artificial intelligence. I just hope it can become a kind of electronic pet... Let the user download it. No, I should say, we can help them download it directly. As long as it is playable, it's OK. What do you think?"

"???"

When he heard this, Thomson was stunned.

There was no reaction for a long time.

"We can't let our two years of hard work go to waste..."

"Mr. Zhang Yang, what you mean is..."

"..."

Zhang Yang looked at the dawn outside the window and finally shook his head: "Leave the rest to me..."

"..."

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March passed by quickly.

In the blink of an eye, it's April.

For Chotech...

Waiting is the most anxious thing.

Mid-January…

The Novia mobile phone, which is equipped with the Symbian system, was launched in Barcelona, ​​Spain, under the attention of the public. It is called the Novia 808.

This press conference...

Everyone knows that this is Novia’s last dance in the era of smart phones, and also its final battle against the currently aggressive iPhone!
The scene of the press conference was also shocking. As the world's first smartphone to adopt PureView imaging technology, 4100-megapixel sensor, Carl Zeiss lens and pixel super-sampling technology, the person in charge claimed that it will bring [Novia 808] to open a new era of smartphone imaging!

……

A 4100-megapixel mobile phone. When Jotek saw this scene, he was completely shocked!

In fact, once this phone with amazing pixels was released, it caused a sensation in the global high-end mobile phone field.

Countless people looked at this phone in shock...

Many people even exclaimed, "The King of Novia has returned!"
……

Late May.

As the largest market for [Novia], the Chinese market has been very popular since [Novia 808] was released...

Although it was expensive, at RMB 5888 per unit, it received sales orders of more than 20 units overnight, sweeping away the shadow of being overwhelmed by the iPhone series of phones in the high-end mobile phone field.

On the same day, [Novia] officially announced the sales data and matched it with a flame color, as if to declare that it was once the king of mobile phones...

Novia, which dominates the mid-range, high-end and low-end mobile phones in China, has made a complete comeback!

By April 4, the sales volume had soared to 4 units. Although not as crazy as the iPhone 45S, it is still the most successful high-end model of Novia in recent years!

……

"What about Zhang Yang's [Wheat 3]? Has it come out yet?"

"No……"

"Why hasn't it come out yet? Didn't we promise to provide Qualcomm 4S processors?"

"Mr. Zhang said he is still debugging and it will take some time..."

"Is he making art, or is he doing something else? What is he missing?"

"do not know……"

"..."

With the success of [Novia 808]...

Chotech heard another piece of news from [Novia].

That is, in August, they will release another civilian phone, named [Novia Lumia 8], using [Microsoft system], and it is said that the price is only 625...

What does it mean?
This is, after entering the high-end field, Novia will bring the [Microsoft] system to kill the mid- and low-end mobile phones and replace [Wheat 3].

If it can be released before then, everything will be fine!

If you catch up later...

Then, [Wheat 3] will be meaningless.

……

Time passed little by little.

From July 4th to September 4rd.

Qiao Taike called Zhang Yang several times.

But the responses were all light and were under debugging!

……

In May, when the news about the Novia Lumia 5 came out and the configuration was just announced...

【Xiaomi 3】The official suddenly released a message.

【Long time no see, our Xiaomai 3 is here! 】

(End of this chapter)