NetEase Youdao launches a user co-creation bounty! NetEase's first AI-native voice Agent 'NetEase Bage Says' has launched a 'User Honorary Co-Creation Program', investing 100,000 yuan to solicit product suggestions, with 11 spots available, a single person can win up to 50,000 yuan, and there are no academic or major requirements.
It is reported that the program does not limit the direction of suggestions. Users can submit suggestions regarding the product features, use cases, experience issues, and future capability visions of 'NetEase Bage Says'. Whether it is a bug discovered in daily use or an imagination of the future of AI voice interaction, all have the chance to become references for product optimization. Selected users will not only receive a cash prize, but will also receive co-creation appointment letters, NetEase custom commemorative work badges, interview fast-track privileges, and other benefits, and their contributions can be verified, attributed, and permanently preserved. During the event, visit the NetEase Bage Says official website and click the entry at the top of the page to submit suggestions and participate in the solicitation.
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More noteworthy is that all valid contributions will be recorded and displayed. NetEase Bage Says will set up an honorary co-creation showcase page on its official website, presenting contributor IDs and contribution content; for co-creation contributions to specific features, thanks are also planned through feature Easter eggs, version update notes, and source code comments. A relevant person in charge of NetEase Bage Says said that through this mechanism, they hope users will no longer be mere users of the product, but true co-creators who participate in product building and witness product growth.
Behind opening co-creation to users is 'NetEase Bage Says'' continuous exploration of AI voice interaction capabilities. As NetEase's first AI-native voice Agent, Bage Says breaks out of the traditional voice input tool positioning of 'speech-to-text', and can directly convert natural spoken language into structured, directly reusable high-quality text. Through deep tuning of its self-developed ASR and semantic understanding pipeline, the efficiency ratio of its spoken output to keyboard typing has been improved to 5 times. It can automatically polish and understand spoken intent, supports real-time voice interpretation across 124 languages, achieves translation accuracy of up to 98% in professional fields such as economics, physics, chemistry, and medicine, processes all data locally, and is free for life.
Notably, behind Bage Says' product exploration lies NetEase Youdao's continuous accumulation in real-time voice interaction technology. In September this year, Youdao's two open-sourced real-time interaction models from the Zi Yue Live series — the true streaming speech recognition model Confucius4-R2T2 and the streaming translation model Confucius4-T3PO — successively topped the Trending charts in their respective subfields on the global AI open-source community Hugging Face, achieving a 'double topping'.
Starting from the 'User Honorary Co-Creation Program', Bage Says is establishing a new way of user participation: letting real needs enter product discussions and letting valid contributions be recorded. When users' suggestions can be seen, adopted, and leave a real mark in the product, the relationship between users and AI products is also expected to move from one-way use to joint building.
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