Digital Life (Absolut01) - Chapter 38

[thirty eight.]

The simplified Chinese version is 998 RMB, the traditional Chinese version is 998 Hong Kong dollars, and the multi-language version outside China is 199 dollars or 169 euros for the regular version of “Zonghengjia” no matter how cheap the word is. In the genuine software market, it is faster than operation. The software is expensive. Since Microsoft has simplified the operating system and lowered the price again and again, very few software dare to set such a high price, and this is still the ordinary version.

Applicable to various professional environments, or professional versions with greater tolerance for thesaurus and languages, they are all customized according to needs, and the price is negotiable.

But on the day of its release on July 3, the Simplified Chinese version sold about 40,000 copies, and this sales figure is almost catching up with games developed by several well-known companies.

Lu Zhenyu and his colleagues in the company did not expect to have such a market.

In their view, although this software is technically advanced, has a high tolerance for speech semantics, and can fully meet the needs of daily life, study and business, the main consumer group of this software should still be companies, especially Companies engaged in international trade.

In fact, the age and educational structure of the people who queued up to buy this software are almost the same as those who queued up to buy the latest rts masterpiece “The Demon Hunter” a while ago.

This result really surprised everyone for a while.

Or a college student in the queue solved everyone’s doubts. The current CET-4 and CET-6 exams torture students enough. Isn’t there a language environment?

Simple, during voice or video chat, both parties hang up this “Zonghengjia”, and a professional language environment is established. Although the price is a little higher, it is more expensive than re-examination, looking for gunmen, buying fake certificates or tutoring. It’s not too expensive in comparison… Yes, “Zonghengjia” can make all web pages displayed in the language you specify, and all chats in the specified language. It can really be regarded as a tool for learning foreign languages. .

This usage is probably considered China’s national conditions.

The reporters were far more curious and energetic than the digital totem employees. The next day, a newspaper reported that two Wenzhou bosses took their laptops with “Zonghengjia” installed and ran out of the country arrogantly. Go for business.

After that, there were endless reports about “Zonghengjia” and the scope of use of this software. For the first time, language was no longer an obstacle to communication and communication.

The multi-language version has been delayed until July 10 before it began to be released around the world, and the sensation caused by it is no less than the premiere in Shanghai.

For many regions, the real craze started with digital totems publishing various language plug-ins on the Internet, not only those with considerable influence, but also many smaller languages.

In the tide of internationalization, those countries and regions whose native language was squeezed out of English by English cheered and welcomed the arrival of “Zonghengjia”. Some small countries even immediately stopped English classes in all schools for the next semester, and announced that any future Language courses can only be used as elective courses, requiring citizens to strengthen the study of their own language and promote national culture… Although many countries are not so extreme, they have relaxed their English teaching and requirements intentionally or unintentionally.

Like France and Germany, the original language is relatively strong, but countries that have been invaded by English culture because of the Internet in recent years are also secretly applauding “Zonghengjia”. Small actions such as purchasing digital totem products and giving digital totem software exports a considerable discount fully demonstrate their goodwill.

These national-level purchases alone have added a point to Digital Totem’s turnover in the second half of the year.

For these changes, the BBC even wrote a sensational report, saying that this is the biggest setback Britain has suffered since the Industrial Revolution.

Although somewhat exaggerated, this is part of a description of the fact that the strong culture of English is being thwarted.

What makes Digital Totem even more happy is that the United Nations Headquarters invited Digital Totem to the New York Headquarters to analyze and evaluate the daily translation needs of the United Nations Headquarters building.

And put forward suggestions for electronic improvement.

When the fax from the United Nations Headquarters arrived at the office of the president of Digital Totem, the secretary could hardly believe his eyes. If he could take this order, it would not be a simple matter of economic benefits, but a representation of digital As an entity with profound technical strength, Totem has been recognized by the highest international level in the field of electronic language translation, and this is undoubtedly a matter of considerable political influence.

Chen Ning hurriedly convened a meeting with the company’s top management and decided to deal with the matter in a low-key manner before it was concretely implemented.

However, the crowded United Nations Headquarters did not know who passed the news to the news media. There was an uproar in public opinion for a while. After the news was sent back to China, it caused agitation in the domestic media.

In order to be cautious, Digital Totem had to announce that Lu Dekun, the general manager of the “Zonghengjia” development team, would lead the team to the United Nations Headquarters Building for the preliminary planning of the project.

There was a lot of commotion, and it didn’t calm down until the end of August.

As of August 31, the global circulation of the regular version of “Zonghengjia” has reached a total of 4.4 million sets. After deducting development costs and global publicity expenses, it has brought nearly 4 billion yuan in revenue to Digital Totem.

And that’s not the final number yet.

With the United Nations expressing its intentions, countless governmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, and international exhibitions around the world have begun to negotiate with Digital Totem about the translation service orientation service. Although the requirements of these professional customers are high, Digital Totem can get Profits are also considerable.

After this part of the business has grown to this point, Digital Totem was forced to set up an international language translation consulting business department to deal with this kind of business, so there is no need to delay the manpower of the laboratory on this project.

When the digital totem is booming with the sales boom of “Zonghengjia”, the domestic software industry is experiencing huge suffering.

UU Reading www.sonicmtl.com Since the field of it started in China, in fact, China’s software industry has always been regarded as fragile. Several relatively large enterprises mainly develop games, and enterprises in the professional field work as erp. Such professional services, or doing finance, invoicing, process management software, or companies specializing in antivirus software development are fine, while most small and medium-sized enterprises, and individual large enterprises, are developed by making small software. , dictionaries, dictionaries, translations, and language learning are the foundations for these enterprises to survive, and now, this fragile foundation has been crushed by digital totems.

While “Zonghengjia” was selling well, the sales of “Powerword” software were terrible, and some stores did not even sell one for a month.

Due to jealousy, some people can’t care about anything… Because of the publication of “Zonghengjia”, many translators, especially translators in the relatively low-level service industry, have begun to lose their jobs. Their employment prospects have also turned gloomy, and young people who are already restless are easy to incite… Not to mention those who lost their jobs because of the intelligent voice customer service system launched by Digital Totem may not only have a good voice, “the ability to withstand pressure” Telephone service personnel with no special skills other than “strong”… These people may not have been popular at first, but they are not reconciled to seeing their identities become “vulnerable groups”, “unemployed people”, when these negative emotions After the holders converge to a certain extent, the action against the digital totem inevitably begins.

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