With the rapid development of modern digital technology, the left-behind elderly people are gradually excluded from the edge of the information wave, which brings convenience to the younger generation and objectively brings many difficulties to the "front wave".
Faced with this fact, the General Office of the State Council quickly issued the Notice on the Implementation Plan for Effectively Solving the Difficulties of the Elderly in Using Intelligent Technology, aiming at helping the elderly to solve various services.
Subsequently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology also issued the Special Action Plan for Internet Application Aging and Barrier-free Transformation, and decided to organize a one-year special action for Internet application aging and barrier-free transformation nationwide from 202 1 1.
Under the call of the policy, science and technology enterprises have responded and carried out a series of aging-adaptive transformation. Recently, Iflytek Input Method officially launched "Elder Mode". What convenience can it bring to the elderly? Today, IT house will learn about it with friends.
Input method is the basis of human-computer interaction and one of the most frequent applications in the wave of modern intelligence, so it is of special significance to carry out intelligent transformation of input method.
In reality, there are many pain points for the elderly to use input method, such as illiteracy, unclear words, slow typing, inability to speak Mandarin, repeated checking to avoid typos and so on. Old people often encounter various problems when using input methods.
This time, Iflytek input method has brought many targeted transformations and upgrades to these pain points. For example, you can directly enter the elder mode with one click. After the elder mode is turned on, the input interface becomes simpler, the icons and fonts become larger, the color matching contrast becomes higher, and it is gentle and not dazzling, which is convenient for the elderly to watch.
In terms of input, Iflytek input method in elder mode supports high recognition rate of handwritten input, and can overlap words and connect words. Handwriting has its own stroke effect, and handwritten words also have pinyin hints.
If the elders can't play Pinyin, they can press the space bar to input voice directly, following the habit of sending voice messages on WeChat. If you click on the voice microphone, you will enter the long text voice by default, which is convenient for the elderly to speak slowly. Using this input method, there is no need for handwriting input, and the accuracy of voice input is as high as 98%.
Besides supporting Mandarin, Iflytek Input Method also supports 23 dialects to solve the problem that the elderly can't speak Mandarin.
In addition to these basic transformations, Iflytek Input Method Elder Mode also supports voice broadcast function. Click on the small speaker icon on the input panel, and the text information input by the elders will be read aloud by voice to help the elderly with poor eyesight check their mistakes.
In addition, the brand-new Iflytek input method also has built-in expression packs commonly used by the elderly, so that elders can also use expressions to convey their emotions when chatting. At the same time, the input method also has a built-in greeting function, so you don't have to worry about not being able to return the blessings of others on holidays.
After a period of experience, IT House feels that the aging transformation of Iflytek input method is still very intentional, involving interaction, text input and some auxiliary functions. I believe it can bring great help to the elderly to use input method.
This makes people wonder, behind these improvements and upgrades, how did Iflytek consider it, and how did some unique function upgrades come into being? With these questions, IT House specially chatted with the product manager in Iflytek.
The first thing that IT House is curious about is how Iflytek tapped the pain points and needs of the elderly in this aging transformation of input methods.
In this regard, Iflytek said, first, because the elderly are an important part of its huge number of users. At first, I planned to do this aging transformation, because I received feedback and suggestions from many users. I hope that besides voice input and dialect recognition, there are more functions and interactions aimed at the usage habits of elders.
These feedback suggestions provide preliminary demand information for the product team of Iflytek Input Method. In response to these previously neglected needs, Iflytek has done a lot of user surveys, deeply analyzed many industry data reports, and combined with the personal experience of elders, found that there are problems such as typing difficulties, Internet access difficulties, and being ignored.
For example, some users feedback that their mothers can't read, but online appeal is very strong. They often brush Tik Tok, volcano videos and circle of friends, hoping to know what others have sent; Some feedback parents pinyin is not very good, can't speak mandarin. Some people think that the keyboard of mobile phone is too small to type, and so on.
After discovering this series of problems, Iflytek Input Method began to develop aging models. In the process of research and development, Iflytek is not limited to the existing elderly users, but has gone deep into the community and universities to do a lot of research for the elderly, collecting their needs, giving them new functions to experience at the first time, and constantly updating and perfecting products according to their feedback.
At the same time, Iflytek said that in the future, for the needs of the elderly, similar to the mobile phone input method, the PC version will also be aging-adapting to visual interaction and function customization, and adding customized functions of voice broadcasting for the elderly.
As a well-known intelligent voice and artificial intelligence company, one of Iflytek's major competitiveness lies in artificial intelligence. So in this transformation, how did Iflytek integrate its AI technology advantages into all aspects of the aging input method?
This can be said to be the key point that IT House asked Iflytek's product manager.
First of all, Iflytek said that according to the input needs of different groups, Iflytek Input Method is committed to matching corresponding solutions with AI technology.
For example, the speech recognition of 23 dialects by Iflytek input method. Based on the accumulation and reserve of A.I. technology and in-depth language research, Iflytek adopted multilingual modeling, and realized multi-dialect support through multi-dialect data sharing training.
At the same time, with the help of Global Phone global phoneme set, Iflytek unified the definition of dialect phonemes from the acoustic similarity, further refined the dialect "language map" model, and trained the model with the help of dialect data in "Chinese Dialect Database", which improved the dialect language recognition ability.
In addition, Iflytek input method products also provide Tibetan, Uygur and Yi ethnic voice input and dialect translation functions, so that voice input can benefit more users.
IT House once outlined the basic principles of speech recognition in the article "The First Step to Say Goodbye to Mental Retardation: Xiaomi Makes Xiao Ai Students Smarter". It can be seen that it is a complex and huge project to realize more accurate and faster speech recognition.
In fact, Iflytek Input Method has also made long-term efforts to improve the accuracy of speech recognition, and constantly introduced the latest AI technology into products. Here are some examples of Iflytek's exploration in AI speech recognition, which you can learn about.
First, on 20 10, Iflytek AI Research Institute applied GMM-HMM- hidden Markov model to speech recognition system. By using WFST decoder, the complex language model is improved, and the recognition rate reaches 70%.
In 20 18, Iflytek began to use HybridCNN algorithm again. Through structural optimization, the number of concurrent channels increased greatly, and the accuracy of speech recognition exceeded 98%.
In 2020, Iflytek added a dynamic adaptive codec speech recognition engine to its products, further realizing multi-modal input and domain personalized recognition.
In addition to speech recognition, the new Iflytek input method also supports more powerful handwriting recognition, which is mainly due to the profound accumulation of OCR technology in Iflytek. For example, based on the encoding and decoding idea of spatial attention mechanism, Iflytek realized the end-to-end recognition of the relationship between characters and positions in mathematical formulas, and proposed a multi-scale spatial attention mechanism to solve the problem of character loss caused by large differences in character sizes. Therefore, even if the handwriting of the elderly is scrawled, it can be accurately recognized.
In addition to the deep cultivation in the fields of speech recognition and handwriting recognition, Iflytek Input Method has continuously introduced various A.I. core technologies, explored new applications including speech and handwriting functions, and improved the user experience. These functions greatly improve the input efficiency of the elderly.
In fact, the adaptive aging of intelligent technology and Internet application is a comprehensive and systematic transformation project, which can not be completed by the efforts of one enterprise, one product or one field, but requires the full cooperation of all participants in all industries. Iflytek Input Method also clearly recognizes this point, so it has always attached great importance to maintaining long-term cooperative relations with domestic mobile phone manufacturers such as Huawei, OPPO, vivo and Xiaomi.
For example, in smart phone cooperation, Huawei honors "intelligent key", Hammer mobile phone has built-in voice recognition and global search, Meizu, MOTO and so on. Iflytek input method recognition technology is built in; Facing the AIoT field, Iflytek input method and OPPO Watch custom watch input method improve the interactive ability of intelligent hardware. These technical cooperation can not only bring Iflytek's experience in terminal aging transformation, but also provide technical support for terminal manufacturers to optimize their products for the elderly.
Cheng Kun, general manager of Iflytek Input Method Division, said that in the process of industrial cooperation, Iflytek's core advantage is artificial intelligence technology. As a member of the national team of artificial intelligence technology, not only the elderly, the input method hopes to move in a faster, more accurate and smarter direction with the continuous development and progress of artificial intelligence technology. To meet the diverse and personalized scene expression needs of users, both the elderly and the visually impaired (Iflytek input method has a special barrier-free mode) can communicate barrier-free, comprehensively improve the input experience of the whole people, and make equal rights in science and technology no longer a slogan.
The report "China Development Report 2020: Trends and Policies of Population Aging in China" issued by China Development Research Foundation shows that by 2025, the number of elderly people aged 65 and above in China will exceed 200 million. In 2050, there will be nearly 400 million elderly people in China, and the number of elderly people is still increasing. In this era of intelligent digital technology, the train should have an important carriage "the elderly".
Perhaps in the past, we ignored the survival of the elderly in the digital age, but fortunately, it is not too late to pay attention now. The remaining problem is just how to transform the infrastructure in the digital age so that the elderly can survive better.
Just like the core idea that Iflytek followed in the aging transformation of input method, the key is to truly empower the communication efficiency of the elderly based on the needs of the middle-aged and elderly people, rather than creating obstacles.
At the same time, it is also necessary to have standards and norms for the elderly to use intelligent technology, and to clarify what should be included in barrier-free design suitable for aging, so as to solve the problem of the elderly using intelligent technology.
In short, there should be a user-oriented, targeted and differentiated solution, rather than blindly amplifying it.
We believe that science and technology should not be the threshold for specific people, so that everyone can participate in social life equally and conveniently and enjoy the convenience brought by science and technology. This is a topic that all socially responsible enterprises need to pay attention to.