Chapter 41 Promotion Methods
After coming up with this idea, Lu Yuan immediately modified it according to his own idea, first adjusting the voice assistant's voice and deliberately modulating it to a younger girl state. Of course, not everyone likes this kind of sound, so there is still an option to turn off "Coco" and replace it with a more calm male voice, supporting self-set naming.
However, having good ideas does not mean that you have to get them all at once. A successful businessman will never be stupid enough to sell all the good things at once. Instead, he has to learn from Intel and Apple, and make some new things like squeezing toothpaste every time, or even just add a new color scheme, which is enough for the world to pay.
The idea of virtual idols can be fully expanded with the development of later technology, such as designing a real appearance, facing users with a real image, adding many new features, etc. If this can be done, just expanding the content and updating version at will, it will be a big gimmick.
If we develop further in the end, when artificial intelligence and hardware technology mature, everyone in society can customize their own exclusive housekeepers, partners, friends, etc. This selling point is really too big.
It took Lu Yuan a whole day to debug "Coco". What kind of sound does "Coco" have to be set to be? It is really a difficult question to choose.
In terms of his preferences, he naturally chose soft and cute tones, but considering that they were to be market-oriented, they could not use personal preferences as a benchmark, but based on the bottom line that many users could accept. Because of this reason, after a day of debugging, he debugged the "Coco" sound into a fresh and crisp, more lively girlish voice. This tone only needs to be heard, and people of any age are easy to accept, so that the sound will not be too sticky and will produce a greasy smell.
"Sonny, it seems we have to limit it..."
After actually completing most of the work, Lu Yuan couldn't help but shake his head as he listened to "Coco"'s anthropomorphic answer.
All programmers and engineers in this world hope that their products will get better and better, but Lu Yuan actually had the idea of having to limit them at this time.
That's right, Lu Yuan did not expect that with his current hardware level, he still performed so well after using ordinary mobile phones. To be honest, there would be no problem with passing the Turing test at such a level. If he hadn't known as "Coco" as an developer, it would be difficult for ordinary people to test it against a computer.
It is true that "Coco" still has some shortcomings. When ordinary people do not know about it, they cannot recognize that it is AI. However, if they inform the computer in advance that an AI is mixed in and carefully observed, they can still find traces. However, this is already shocking enough. Lu Yuan estimated that even if it is a product in IBM's top artificial intelligence laboratory, there is still a two to three years of cross-grooving since the technical level of "Coco".
With current hardware technology, "Coco" has reached an inability to make progress with the support of new software algorithms, at most it is functional improvement, which is very unfavorable to future product launch plans. The best way is to weaken the intelligence level of "Coco".
"The first step requires promotion...and also requires testing of many samples."
After selecting the twenty most popular mobile phones on the market, making corresponding optimized flash packages, Lu Yuan began to consider how to promote them.
Unlike APPs, the flashing package is larger and more complicated. With a one-click flashing, it does not mean that most users are willing to flash the machine, especially MIUI and Flyme, which occupy most of the market, have complete functions, and users are even less likely to be willing to try a strange flashing package.
I am so stupid to upload the flashing package to various application flashing markets and software. After waiting for a few months, there may not be many people trying it. This is why the wine is fragrant and the alley is deep.
"I can consider finding him."
After pondering for a moment, Lu Yuan gave up several promotion ideas and chose another method.
After all, he has been in the electronic product evaluation industry for two years, and he has many people in contact with this industry. In addition to his boss, there is actually another person who has a larger fan base than his boss through down-to-earth evaluation methods.
Before this person was founded, Lu Yuan had contacted him online for a few times. The two sides were barely friends. If you ask this person to evaluate it, as long as it was posted on the Internet, the advertising effect would be much better than the methods he had thought of in the previous few.
Thinking of this, Lu Yuan found his contact information, opened his chat window, and sent a message "Are you there?"
In the past, Lu Yuan sent a message and replied very quickly, and it almost took a few seconds to reply. But now, after setting up his own studio, he is obviously much busier than before. He sent a message and didn't see any response for half an hour.
Lu Yuan was not in a hurry. He had not finished his work. When the window shocked and sent back the information, more than an hour had passed.
"Are there anything wrong?"
"I want to ask for help in something."
Lu Yuan stood in the distance and used a welding machine to conduct welding. After hearing the sound from Bluetooth headphones, he replied casually.
When his answer was answered, the voice was immediately transmitted to the computer, and then automatically sent to the other party.
"What's up?"
The other party was silent for a minute before asking.
"I recently started a project with my friend and made some flashing bags, and I want you to test it."
“Flashing the machine bag?”
The other party was obviously a little surprised and immediately asked: "Is there any characteristic?"
He spoke more directly, and Lu Yuan was not an important friend of him, but he didn't have so much nonsense to greet him. Since he asked for his help, he would get straight to the point.
"My friends and I are mainly studying artificial intelligence. Recently, we have achieved some results, so we made a voice assistant and transplanted it to our mobile phone to test..."
"Why don't you do it yourself?"
"I've resigned."
"Does the voice assistant need to deliberately create a flash pack?"
"Unlike the current voice assistants on the market, some functions cannot be achieved by relying on APPs and must be implemented at the system level."
This obviously made the other party a little interested. Logically speaking, although he is engaged in electronic product evaluation, in the final analysis, in addition to hardware, the most important thing in electronic product evaluation is system software. No matter how powerful the hardware performance is, there is no system software that optimizes and matches it. That is waste, and no one will ask for it if it is given to others.
Since this is the case, this flashing package is not impossible to test. The other party was silent for a while and said, "What kind of test are you looking for?"
"Can you get on video?"
"You are very confident."
Lu Yuan understood why the other party said that. A studio that has achieved this level is no longer the same as before, and the products are tested as they pleased. It is necessary to select products. If it is a product that has no value, it is impossible to be tested on video.
Therefore, when Lu Yuan said that it was on the video, the other party immediately felt that Lu Yuan was very confident.
"It took me more than two years to successfully make this product. I think it's still a bit valuable enough for the last video."
Lu Yuan opened his mouth and said nonsense. The workload of a week became a false team, and it took two years to achieve the results.
But I have to say that this lie is still very heavy. I heard that it took two years of hard work and no matter how hard I didn’t care about this, the other party had to take some thought to look at it.
"Okay, I'll test it if I have time. If it's really valuable to watch the video, I don't want your advertising fee."
The other party replied humorously, and then said, "Tell me the thing, or give me a download address."
"Okay, please trouble you."
Lu Yuan turned off his headphones and shouted to the side: "Sonny, pass the address to him."
Chapter completed!