Chapter 3: The First Product
In the following period, the initial members of XlouS, a start-up company, were only Ren Hong and his dormitory roommates. There were only six people in total, which was just enough.
Except for the individual leaders of the school, the students in the school did not know that a company founded by the university students was established in the school. Ren Hong and the others were very low-key and did not publicize anything, and the school was only limited to internal transmission.
And just like that, XlouS is on the right track.
The first thing Ren Hong and others have to do is to transform the layout of classroom 317 to make it more like an office. After a brief transformation by six people, Ren Hong purchased ten computers and three printers and related necessities and other required hardware facilities.
After three days of laying out everything, the company officially opened.
This afternoon, six people gathered in room 317.
“The hardware facilities are preliminarily completed. Now let me tell you what kind of products our company is going to launch.” Ren Hong stood on the podium and looked at his five roommates. There is confidence and anticipation, because he is finally going to launch his first product to the world.
“Let me introduce the company’s first product to you now.” Ren Hong turned on the original projector in the room, and the six characters were striking.
“Real-time online translation?” Zhang Han looked suspiciously. Not only him, but the other four were equally suspicious. Although they were confused, everyone quietly listened to the introduction of the confident boss on the stage. The five roommates were surprised. They originally thought that Ren Hong was an introverted scholar, but at this moment, Ren Hong’s confident smile and powerful voice on the stage completely subverted their original perception.
“Our first application product, I named it ‘Instant Online Interpreter’, this application software supports three versions of Android, iOS and PC, and has been basically developed and perfected.” Ren Hong introduced one by one: “Maybe you have also discovered that this is a translation software. What I want to say is that our first product is indeed a translation software. At this point, you may have a question in your heart.” Ren Hong looked at everyone, It was not what he expected, but he was still full of confidence and continued: “Your question may be, in the face of excellent translation software such as Google Translate in the market, can our products compete?”
Everyone nodded slightly, indeed. Ren Hong continued: “Whether it is facing Google Translate, Baidu Translate, or Youdao Dictionary, the parent company behind it is a behemoth, and its competitors are themselves very good. If we choose to compete with them, it seems that we have no chance of winning. Indeed, there is no chance of winning. But…” Ren Hong’s turning point aggravated his tone. He looked at the crowd and said, “Instant online translation does not need to compete with them, and there is no competitor!”
As soon as this sentence came out, everyone obviously couldn’t understand, who would you not compete with these opponents? Or is our product better than that?
“Why do we say that our products don’t need to compete with them? Everyone, look at the big screen.” Ren Hong pointed to the projected white cloth screen on the side. On the interface, everyone watched Ren Hong’s operation quietly. He first started the instant online interaction. Translate and let it run in the background, then log in to the Facebook account, and then start browsing the circle of friends. There are friends from all over the world in his account. After a while, he stopped the operation and looked at everyone again, “Did you find anything?”
Seeing that the six people didn’t respond much, he continued to control the computer, and then logged into another social application, Instagram, and browsed through the pictures shared by users and the accompanying comments. Then he landed on Twitter (Twitter), and then he landed on a number of foreign websites.
“Fuck!”
Suddenly, Zhang Han, who was sitting below, roared abruptly, staring at the projection screen with wide eyes in surprise.
“Bastard, you scared me, the ghost is on your body?” Chen Kai said angrily.
Zhang Han completely ignored the dissatisfaction expressed by the other party. He pointed at the projection screen and shouted excitedly: “Artifact! It’s really an artifact! How did you do it? What kind of algorithm?”
Ren Hong on the stage finally smiled when he saw Zhang Han’s performance. Obviously, he had already seen it.
“Don’t you understand?” Zhang Han looked at the roommates who didn’t see the mystery, then looked at the screen, and said excitedly: “Instant online translation has made communication barriers a thing of the past! Chen Kai Do you know what that means?”
“Fuck! It really is an artifact!” Zhou Hui finally reacted, and then everyone reacted.
The people present were proficient in English and were also using these social software. They did not experience the problem of communication barriers, so they did not react for a while, until now they finally found out. This is an extremely powerful translation artifact. Just when Ren Hong was using Instagram to browse pictures, the accompanying comments were all Chinese characters, whether it was English, German, Russian, Arabic, Japanese, etc., all of them were translated into Chinese characters have been changed, but the UI interface of Instagram has not changed, only the text has changed. Similarly, when Ren Hong logged on Facebook, it was the same for websites with huge cultural differences and from different countries and regions. The text displayed were all Chinese characters, and the UI interface of the website did not change.
What does this mean? This means that a Chinese who does not understand English at all can understand the content of foreign English websites, and what does this mean?
This is a translation artifact.
Ren Hong looked at everyone’s shocked and excited mood, he smiled, and suddenly cameo a role, saying: “Hi! My name is Ai Lianlu, a 16-year-old girl from one of the largest cities in South America. Buenos Aires, this is the first time I use Instrgam to share my personal life, I am looking forward to making new friends from all over the world on this social platform and looking forward to seeing new friends from all over the world sharing their local specialties .”
Ren Hong then said: “The sentence that Ai Lianlu said was originally only understood by people who knew Spanish and characters, but with instant online translation, whether you are German, Chinese, American, Russians, as long as they see this news, they will know what Ellen Lu wants to express.”
“How interesting!” Ren Hong always looked at a few shocked roommates with a faint smile, and continued: “Technology changes life, with the development of the Internet, and in the current mobile Internet, information The trend of high sharing and globalization is unstoppable. Relying on these social platforms, people in the eastern and western hemispheres can communicate and interact face-to-face across time and space. Relying on the Internet, we can view information from the outside world quickly and conveniently and anytime, anywhere. However, What always bothers us is that different regions, different languages, different cultures and different scripts form a natural barrier for people to communicate with each other.”
“But with the birth of instant online translation, we can finally say goodbye to this trouble. Instant online translation will perfectly solve this obstacle.”
The more Ren Hong said, the more excited he became, and the more the five people below listened, the more excited he became.
“With instant online translation, when an ordinary user logs on to Instagram, his circle is no longer limited to the local area, but truly expands to the whole world. If the Instagram user is a German, he sees Do not understand comments or text messages composed of ancient Chinese characters, it does not matter, instant online mutual translation can be translated into German and browsed, if an American who does not understand Arabic is very interested in Dubai, then instant online mutual translation. The translator can translate Arabic into English he knows well.”
“…and so on! Instant online mutual translation can efficiently and quickly translate languages and texts from more than 150 countries and regions around the world. With this application, users can browse any non-native language translation. The website will completely say goodbye to communication and communication barriers, log on Facebook, log on Twitter, log on Instagram, etc., no matter what country you are, no matter who you are communicating with, the language and text you generate when you communicate and interact with them Obstacles are almost negligible.”
“Instant online translation! Make the world more connected! Make communication more frequent!”
Speaking of this, Ren Hong, who was always smiling, opened his hands and faced the crowd.
(To be continued…)
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