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Evaluation of iFlytek's smart office notebook Air 2 to help the new era of AI of

As the modern, fast-paced office environment takes shape, many companies are exploring ways to enhance office efficiency, streamline office processes, and transform work from a burden into a quick and easy passage. If the iFlytek Smart Office Notebook X3 marked the beginning of the smart office notebook with e-ink screens, then the Air 2 we have this time is the flagship product that popularizes the iFlytek Smart Office Notebook.

Speaking of the e-ink smart office notebook category, iFlytek has essentially taken a leading position, leveraging its powerful artificial intelligence technology and excellent hardware support to greatly enhance the practicality of the iFlytek Smart Office Notebook Air 2. It not only addresses various office scenarios but also, when combined with AI large models, significantly boosts productivity. Of course, iFlytek's core technology is language processing, and its real-time translation and transcription capabilities are also leading in the industry, both in terms of accuracy and speed.

Today, we will share with you the actual performance of this brand-new iFlytek Smart Office Notebook Air 2.

Appearance: Slim and well-crafted body suitable for various occasions

The appearance of iFlytek Air 2 continues the family-style design, featuring a portfolio-style exterior design, with the portfolio cover being detachable and replaceable. The front of the cover has a classic business-style horizontal pattern, with a soft and delicate material. The design is classic and low-key, with a simple business style that is both visually appealing and tactilely satisfying. The designed pattern is not prone to fingerprint smudging, offering excellent stain resistance and durability.

At the top of the front is the external speaker for sound output, which has been perforated and blends seamlessly with the entire front. The screen size of the front body reaches 8.2 inches, complemented by an ultra-narrow bezel design, achieving a screen-to-body ratio of 88.5%, which is the largest screen-to-body ratio in the e-ink field at this stage. The entire front has a better visual experience and a larger display area.

At the top of the body, there is a Type-C interface for charging and data transfer, and on the right side of the top is the power button.

Compared to traditional laptops and tablet products, the thickness of iFlytek Air 2 is only 5mm, and the weight of the bare device is only 230g. The feel in hand is essentially consistent with that of a flagship-level bar phone, and it does not feel heavy even when held for extended periods, making it extremely lightweight. This is a level of portability that traditional tablets and PCs cannot reach.The body of the Air 2 is made of metal material. In terms of color, this series comes in three colors. The standard version of Air 2 is equipped with a Star River Gray body plus a classic black leather case, while the Pro version offers a Starlight Gold with Ink Blue leather case and a Starlight Gold with Elephant Gray leather case. The one we received this time is the standard version's color scheme.

Let's delve into the actual experience and functionality of the iFlytek Smart Office Book Air 2, discussing the impressive features of this smart office device during real-world use.

Powered by iFlytek's Large Model, Embracing a New Era of Intelligent Office Automation

The iFlytek Air 2 is equipped with iFlytek's flagship Spark Large Model, a powerful AI model that has been trained on a vast amount of text, code, and knowledge, giving it cross-domain knowledge and understanding capabilities. It can understand and execute tasks through natural dialogue, making it one of the top-performing and high-quality experience large models in China.

In terms of functionality, the Spark Large Model on the iFlytek Air 2 is supported by numerous exclusive AI technologies that can greatly enhance the efficiency of our daily work and study. Let's first highlight the AI features and actual performance of the Air 2.

For many professional users who frequently attend various meetings, the iFlytek Air 2 is equipped with four array microphones, which can accurately capture sound from multiple directions. During multi-person meetings, it can convert meeting voice into text content in real-time, which can then be directly inserted into notes. It can also use the AI large model to mine key points and create meeting minutes, allowing us to quickly distill the main content of the meeting, grasp the core issues, and improve efficiency.

Meeting AI Voice-to-Text Recording

The iFlytek Air 2 can record our meeting content through real-time voice-to-text conversion during meetings. With iFlytek's powerful speech recognition capabilities, both the speed and accuracy are very high.

Multi-person Meetings: It can accurately capture the voiceprints of different speakers, distinguish and mark them, and then record them.Equipped with a 4-microphone array, it can identify voices from different directions and speakers through voiceprint recognition, achieving 360° surround sound recording. Subsequently, it can also automatically categorize and organize records according to the speakers, making it more convenient.

Currently, iFlytek's professional voice technology supports the recognition of 12 dialects and mutual translation of 8 foreign languages. Even without an internet connection, it can also support local offline transcription with an accuracy rate as high as 98%, and the function of transcribing meeting recordings to text is permanently free.

Modify the speaker's name tag

After the meeting recording is recognized, at the end of the meeting, we can directly insert the generated meeting records into the notes in the form of text. We can also edit and modify the speakers later, which allows for a more intuitive view of the records of each speaker or narrator, and also allows for key confirmation of who the main speaker is, and later, it can also quickly find the key information of the meeting.

AI generates meeting minutes

With the support of AI large models, iFlytek Air 2 can also use AI to perform key point mining, discourse regularization, and meeting minutes of the meeting content. Through the meeting minutes, the key information points of the meeting content can be automatically generated, achieving AI refinement of the essence of the meeting. For users who often hold meetings, this feature can directly improve the efficiency of the meeting.

In addition to transcription, "knowledge insight" is another brand new AI function of iFlytek this time. By using AI technology, it organizes our meeting and note content in the form of mind maps. During our meetings and learning processes, we can use AI technology to intelligently analyze our note content, quickly grasp the key points, and also associate our note content to improve office and learning efficiency.

The knowledge insight entrance is located at the top bar of the note page.Entering this feature, we can select the notes that need to be analyzed. The analysis takes about ten seconds, after which we can view the report. Instantly, we can understand that the notes are from a previous meeting, including the main speakers, a summary of the meeting content, and a display of key points, all organized in a mind map format. It also shows the key speeches from leaders and previously marked highlights, making it clear at a glance. This greatly enhances the efficiency of office users, saving more time.

For students, this feature can identify high-frequency words from our daily study notes, automatically associate them with similar previous content, and help us sort out various knowledge points and errors. It can also review similar issues from the past, facilitating a better establishment of a personal knowledge system. This is all thanks to the AI large model technology of iFlytek, and the key is that this feature is completely free among similar products.

If you are a professional content writer, this feature can also connect your previous writing content, helping us to sort out the key keywords marked in the articles, and assisting us in better content coordination and collaboration. After experiencing it, this feature is truly impressive, fully demonstrating the strong capabilities of iFlytek's AI large model.

For professional users from different industries, iFlytek Air 2 also provides a very rich professional vocabulary library, allowing users to choose according to their industry, which can greatly improve the accuracy of voice recognition, covering various common industries.

AI Intelligent Writing

Furthermore, with the support of the AI large model, this Air 2 also has very powerful AIGC capabilities, which can help us with AI intelligent writing, including business speeches, notifications, promotional copy, and more. Simply tell it what content you want to generate, and it can automatically create the manuscript. For example, using AI to generate a notice about summer student water safety, it can produce an 800-word notice in about 15 seconds. The content is structured and the sentences are coherent, ready to be used directly, which can greatly save time in editing copy and improve efficiency.

Smart Pen Circle Selection AI Query

Additionally, the smart pen circle selection AI query feature allows users to quickly select text and perform AI searches, providing instant access to relevant information and insights, enhancing the overall user experience and efficiency in content creation and research.In our daily work, when we read materials, we may encounter many unfamiliar technical terms and new words. At this time, we can use the smart pen to circle and select, and then use AI for inquiry. We can switch in the top taskbar, or press the button on the pen and circle and select, and then perform AI inquiry. Both handwritten fonts and standard printed fonts can be recognized. Whether in note-taking or reading mode, the recognition of iFlytek Air 2 is very accurate, and the inquiry speed is very fast, which can improve our learning and reading efficiency.

Of course, in addition to circle and select AI inquiry, key five-star marking, and real-time annotation and selection, also make the smart pen add more help for us in actual use.

AI Document Assistant: Supports content recognition and content extraction

Modern office work is inseparable from reading and writing OFFICE documents. iFlytek Air 2 comes with WPS, supporting document reading, modification, and handwritten annotations. After adding the AI large model, it can automatically recognize content. For long documents, the AI Document Assistant can automatically generate, summarize, and outline, so you don't need to read all the content to understand the essence of the document. For example, for the boring but very important rental contract, AI can help us automatically extract key information points in the rental contract, such as the location of the house, rent, and rental period, which greatly improves the efficiency of our work and life. This function currently supports Word and PDF documents.

Multi-terminal interconnection allows us to check travel arrangements and note content at any time

As a modern smart office book, in addition to powerful AI functions, travel arrangements are also an important issue in our daily life and work. iFlytek Air 2 supports adding travel and reminder items in both handwritten and printed fonts, helping us better arrange work content, and the content will be automatically sorted according to the inserted time.After using third-party apps, schedule arrangements can be coordinated across multiple platforms, allowing us to view and modify notes, schedules, and more on our mobile phones and PCs.

 

Converting handwritten schedules to print

When inserting schedules, iFlytek Air 2 has the option to convert handwriting to print, and we can also directly use handwriting for recording, filling in schedules, and even marking special events for emphasis, making it convenient for us to plan our time and itineraries in advance.

 

 

A writing experience that rivals the feel of paper, with support for scanning paper documents

iFlytek Air 2 comes with a custom Wacom electromagnetic pen that does not require charging. The pen tip is smooth and bouncy, and the grip feels good. Combined with the paper-like ink screen, it provides a very authentic writing experience.

In the top taskbar, we can also select the style and thickness of the pen tip and other parameters to meet the handwriting habits of different users. The side button also supports custom settings, with the default being the smart pen setting. We can also set it up according to our habits for erasing, drawing straight lines, and selecting and erasing, etc.Tail-end eraser function

After my actual experience, the feeling of handwriting is smooth and smooth, and it is very hand-following. The entire experience is not much different from writing on paper, and it can also retain our real handwriting, truly achieving random record, original flavor.

Of course, Xunfei Air 2 also has a very strong handwriting recognition ability. The self-developed PRC technology can quickly convert handwriting into print, with an identification accuracy rate as high as 95%. The converted text can be directly edited, exported, shared, and printed, and the user experience is very excellent.

Xunfei is equipped with an iFLYTEK DocScan scanning camera on the back, which supports the scanning of paper documents and can quickly convert them into electronic files. It supports handwritten annotations and text editing, and of course, it also supports Chinese-English translation. It can also be directly exported as Word and PDF documents, and it can also be inserted into notes. This greatly improves our work and study efficiency, helping us to obtain information and information more quickly and conveniently.The translation feature, as a signature capability of iFLYTEK, supports real-time voice translation between Chinese and English, and after the translation is completed, it can be directly copied and edited. For users who frequently need to communicate with foreign languages, this Air 2 also supports real-time translation of German, Japanese, Korean, French, Russian, Spanish, and Vietnamese into Chinese, helping us better engage in daily communication and organize materials.

In addition to the core functionality, this smart office notebook also supports binding multiple email accounts, supports handwritten email replies, and can be used for real-time office work. It can also bind to WeChat accounts, allowing for the transfer of files, images, and articles on WeChat, achieving multi-end interconnection for a better experience.

The smart page-turning feature can also call upon the AI large model assistant. The e-book and AI audiobook functions can provide relaxation and leisure during breaks from work. The news reading module captures news from the Sina Hot List and pre-caches news for up to two hours, making it convenient for us to stay informed.

In conclusion, the iFLYTEK Smart Office Notebook Air 2 has a business-oriented appearance and a slim, portable design, with exquisite craftsmanship, making it very suitable for various business occasions. With the powerful support of the Spark AI large model, it greatly increases the efficiency of our meetings and office work. The design of three-way interconnectivity completely breaks down the barriers between PCs and mobile devices, making it an excellent assistant for light office users and a comprehensive AI assistant for the workplace in the current stage, ushering in a new era of AI office work.