Recommended models: Sogou Translation Treasure Pro, Sogou Translation Pen
 
Sogou is a leading Internet search and input method service provider in China. Since 2004, Sogou Search has grown to become the second largest search engine in China. According to iResearch's data in December 2016, Sogou has 528 million PC users, second only to Tencent and the second largest Internet company in China. Sogou is one of the largest voice input applications in China, and its machine translation and offline translation technologies are both independently developed and are in the first echelon of the industry.
 
The translator is Sogou's first attempt to manufacture intelligent hardware in the field of AI technology, and there are two products on sale, namely Sogou Translator and Sogou Shorthand Translation Pen, Travel Translator is mainly for business travelers, and Stenographic Translator is for students and other educational groups. Both products are equipped with dual microphone array noise reduction, support English, Japanese, Korean, Russian and German and other 42 languages and Chinese interchange function, priced at 2498 yuan and 398 yuan respectively.
 
The machine translation technology built into the translator is divided into statistics, intermediate languages, examples, neural networks, etc., and these methods are not either/or, for example, between languages with fewer pairs of corpus, statistical methods are more effective. When the corpus is small, it is necessary to rely on intermediate languages for conversion. There are also some conventional idioms and phrases, which can be better solved by the translation method of examples. Neural translation is better than the previous techniques most of the time.
 
Sogou Travel Translator uses neural network technology, the accuracy of offline translation is comparable to online translation, and the dual microphone array can greatly reduce environmental noise, improve the radio recognition rate, and maintain a high speech recognition rate in a noisy environment.
 
Sogou Translation Treasure and Xunfei's Xiaoyi are close in many aspects, and they are often compared. Sogou Translation Treasure is shaped like a mobile phone, the shell is an aluminum alloy body, and the 3.1-inch touch screen is convenient for switching languages, making it easier to get started. Xiaoyi has a plastic body, and it feels like a handheld remote control to hold, which takes time for beginners to use. The two converge in terms of price and features, but in terms of ease of use, Translator is slightly superior.
 
Sogou recording translation pen looks like a marker, there is no burden to carry around, this pen has three major functions, it can be connected to a mobile phone through Bluetooth technology, and it supports recording shorthand and simultaneous interpretation functions. Recording shorthand can directly convert the recording into text, the fastest can recognize 400 words per minute, and the dialogue translation supports 18 languages such as Chinese, English, Japanese, and Korean, which is easy to operate. Simultaneous interpretation is the most important function of this pen, while holding down the red key for translation, speaking with the blue key, you can simultaneously translate foreign language speech into Chinese, that is, speak and translate, continuous use battery life of 3 hours.