One Planet for Everyone! Building Science and Technology Civilization at the Beginning

After Zhou Lei went to pour a glass of water and came back, the software displayed: "The current simultaneous translation software is not easy to use at all. What are you asking about it?"

Zhou Lei originally told the big hacker about the problems Zhang Jie encountered.

The boss replied with a series of ellipsis, and ten minutes later, he passed a software package through the software.

After Zhou Lei received it, decompressed it and installed it. When executing the exe file, it was prompted that the voice library was missing.

"Hey, big guy, your software is incomplete, and you don't even have a voice library."

"What do you know, plus the voice library can't be installed on your computer, do you think the voice library is ready-made? Get it yourself. There is a generation tool under the software directory. You can read the documents inside and build the voice library yourself. This software It's not that stupid, you can only recognize any language when you switch to any language."

"That is to say, I can put together the speech libraries of many languages, and the software can automatically recognize it."

"That's what it means, otherwise those who speak English words will be uncomfortable." After the big hacker replied, he stopped paying attention to Zhou Lei.

Zhou Lei copied the tools for generating the voice library separately. How can we collect the voice libraries of various languages? This is a huge project.

Let’s make a common Chinese voice library first, and ask two translation software companies to buy it. It is estimated that they will not pay attention to you.

Zhou Lei should still use Python, find some video websites, let the software open in the background, and keep playing videos in front, so that as long as there is enough time, a voice library with a recognition rate of at least four nines can be generated. However, Hua Yuan's countless dialects can only be taken slowly.

You can't run this job on your own laptop, and it may take several months to run.

Zhou Lei called the integrator and asked them to send ten low-end PC servers, and domestic ones were fine. Then we rented several standard cabinets in the computer room and let the integrator install them.

A few days later, Zhou Lei put the tool software and the script he wrote on it, and let the server start running.

If the maintenance staff opened the KVM connected to these servers that day, they would find that videos in various languages ​​were always playing on the screen, including TV series, documentaries, news, etc., as long as there were any on the potato chip station, it would be played randomly.

The voice library is slowly getting bigger at a speed visible to the naked eye, from 0KB to a huge file of more than 300GB, there are more than one, ten 300GB files.

Zhou Lei estimates that when the deduplication and merging are finally performed, there will be at least a size of more than 1 T.

The growth rate of the voice library file has slowed down, and it cannot increase by 100MB a day. Zhou Lei thinks it is almost the same. He remotely copied ten voice libraries to one directory. The hard disks on the current server are all plugged in a lot, and they are still large, so there is no problem.

Open the tool software, point the imported directory to that directory, the software immediately finds all the voice library file packages, and displays the combined file size.

Zhou Lei felt that he underestimated the size of the voice package. After the merger, there was still 1.5TB, which was too big.

Suddenly he found that there was another button that said "Split" and tried to click it. I found that this function is very good. It can divide voice packets into basic packets and network packets, or divide them according to language, but it is not necessary.

According to the language division, there is no use of translation, only voice to text, but this is still good for voice input method, but Zhou Lei does not want to enter this unprofitable industry for the time being. What's more, "Some Fei" can do it well, but sometimes the input method will be stupid, and there is absolutely no need for him to enter this Red Sea market.

Zhou Lei chose the basic package and network package, so that the software can directly read the voice library of some commonly used words. If the corresponding data cannot be found, it will be queried on the server.

Isn't this another business? This business can be done by yourself, so that you don't have to let a group of people in the office be bored to death every day.

Zhou Lei copied the basic package to his computer, then opened the simultaneous translation software, read a few almost very simple Chinese dialogue sentences, and the software quickly translated it into English. This is the default option.

After testing several scientific and technological documents, Zhou Lei found a problem. He could recognize Chinese and English speech normally, but the quality of translation was too poor. There is no problem translating English into Chinese, and translating Chinese into English is like machine translation or Chinglish a few years ago. It is estimated that the reason for letting the software have been learning on domestic websites, but many foreign websites do not exist.

What can we do then?

If you have money, there is a way. Zhou Lei picked it up and found Amazon's cloud server service. He placed an order for 20 complete machines in one go, rented it for a year, and now it is not bad at all, and he also needs unlimited traffic. .

In the same way, he threw the tool software and the modified script on it and waited for the harvest in ten days and a half months.

A month later...

"My colleagues, the reason for this meeting today is that I have developed a new product."

Well, there is no conference room, everyone just sits in their seats and listens to Zhou Lei standing in front of the whiteboard talking, and the whiteboard hangs directly on the wall.

After the information bombardment of the robot dog, everyone thinks that the boss is a genius, but sometimes it is not in tune.

Everyone applauded, "Boss, tell me what product it is?"

Zhou Lei wrote two huge words "translation" on the whiteboard, "A long time ago, many companies said that they wanted to get rid of translation jobs.

, so that students do not need to learn English, but in fact they are bragging. "

"Mr. Zhou, whose job are you going to get rid of?"

"It's a good question. I'm not going to kill those bitter simultaneous translators. We don't do this market. If someone calls and asks, they say we don't have this service. Of course, customers used to bring their own software. Going to a meeting, that's out of our control. We just don't provide simultaneous translation services for meetings."

"So?"

"Business use and personal use are both short-term and timely. Maybe all he needs is a few minutes of translation work. It is impossible for him to find a simultaneous translator who is on call at any time. Software companies are already disappointed."

"Yes, I traveled abroad before, something happened and I was injured in an accident. It took me a lot of effort to find the hospital. According to my English level, it would be good if I could find a place to eat and sleep."

"Yes, you are our service crowd."

"But boss, hasn't 'Some Fei' produced a portable translation box for many generations?"

"If you've used it, you know that it's just a simple translation tool, and it can't guarantee that you can accurately identify other people's languages ​​and accents at any time. When you don't know what language the other party speaks, there is no translation box. way to accurately translate.”

"So, your software can recognize small languages ​​and jumbled accents?"

"Yes, the USB flash drive is here. After you install it, there is a one-month trial period. You can try it in whatever language you want, and you are guaranteed to be satisfied."

When the employees were doing crazy tests, Zhou Lei decided to try to study the source code of the software and put the translation tool software into a translation box produced by Sanshi Technology.

Converting a Windows software into software on an embedded system is absolutely difficult for people to shy away from.

Zhou Lei gave up after a few days of research, and finally found a new version of the software from the hacker, including the embedded operating system on the translation box, as well as Android and IOS versions. Even the circuit diagram of the translation box has been made out, as long as you find an electronic factory, you can OEM production.

The chicken thief Zhou Lei still used that trick. There is only the Boot boot program on the translation box. Only after the online activation will the complete program and basic language pack be updated.

Zhou Lei asked Zhang Jie to introduce a friend of his, a small electronics factory that was about to close down. Only give him a OEM fee of 30 yuan per unit, and all electronic components are calculated at the price of bulk purchases. In this way, even if the electronics factory is desperately trying to save money, it is estimated that it will not earn more than 35 yuan.

It cannot be said that Zhou Lei is bad, this is just business. Even if it overwhelms the OEM fee of 25 yuan per unit, there are still people rushing to do it. The same was true for FoxCon a long time ago, and the OEM fee for a mobile phone of $4 was almost less than 30 yuan.

First, 200 units were produced by proofing. Zhou Lei tested the activation of the box and the push of the software. Everything was fine.

The Android and iOS versions of the software have been submitted for review so new products can be sold again.

Zhou Lei can build his own server cluster this time. He gets a few cabinets of PC servers for remote support of translation software. There are also a few separate ones for software updates.

Because it is a software product, Zhou Lei decided to let go of the download first, try it free for one month, and bind a mobile phone number. Lest some chicken thieves be reluctant to spend money on monthly cards. How can you become stronger without charging money.

When everything was ready, he posted a message on Weibo and the bulletin account.

Two things, one is that the pure software version of simultaneous translation software is online, and everyone is welcome to download and test. The second is to recruit 100 testers for the simultaneous translation box.

Now there are more than two million people on Sanshi Technology's Weibo and public accounts, so when he posted it like this, the employees who read the feedback in the background couldn't bear it. The screen of the big blockbuster is simply impossible to see.

Zhou Lei can only continue to send messages, "As long as everyone leaves a message on the two softwares, there is a chance to draw. We will use Weibo and WeChat to draw testers. The time is set at 12 noon tomorrow."

This time it's finally a little better, everyone don't need to get excited, this is the time to fight for character.