Phoenix Tech News, February 11 - According to media reports today, China Unicom is actively preparing for the launch of its voice Weibo service. After verification with relevant responsible persons at Guangdong Unicom by Phoenix Tech, the testing version of Unicom's voice Weibo will be launched at the end of February.
It was revealed that the voice Weibo of Unicom is temporarily named "Hong Weibo" and the earliest testing version will be launched at the end of February. During the testing period, this service will only be open to Unicom users. If it receives good feedback, Unicom Group will consider promoting it nationwide to all Unicom users.
According to the introduction, there are two ways for users to publish voice Weibos: after binding their mobile phone numbers with Weibo accounts, users can call a fixed customer service number and record their voice Weibo under the guidance of the system's self-service voice function. The recording time limit is one minute, and after successful review, other users can understand the content of the voice Weibo by listening to the recording.
Users who post voice-recorded Weibos need to pay basic call charges. The above-mentioned Guangdong Unicom official stated. iPhone client interface
It was learned that this method uses the iFlytek voice input technology. However, after actual testing, it was found that the current testing version still has some problems, which have a relatively large impact on dialects, homophones, voice speed, and usage environment. In practice, the efficiency of recognition is not very high.