my return 2002

Chapter 280 Speech Recognition
The origin came from a mother's report call. She found that recently, her child often went out to surf the Internet secretly. At first she thought the child was going to play games, but every time she caught the child, she found that the child was not there. Playing the game, I took off the child's earphones out of curiosity, and the mother immediately exploded when she heard it.

Some indescribable sounds came from the earphones. At first he thought the child was watching some small movie, but when he opened the task bar, he found that it was not. Under pressure, the child told the truth, those indescribable sounds came from a A voice chat room for instant messaging software.

After returning home, the mother became more and more angry and called the police. As a result, after police investigation, it was found that there was indeed a group of special people using the voice chat room to carry out similar activities.

Through the tracking of the Internet police, the police quickly arrested the gang, and the key members of the gang quickly confessed their criminal facts. It is said that they set up this kind of voice chat room in many regular instant messaging software, and then attracted users to either Offline transactions, or directly realize online by charging room fees.

Originally, this was only a small case, but after in-depth investigation by the police, they found that this kind of group using voice chat rooms had formed an industrial chain. After digging deeply, it was shocking. Some chat room administrators of regular instant messaging software even They were all bought by them and turned a blind eye to this kind of behavior.

After the media reported it, it immediately caused an uproar in the public opinion. Many parents were afraid of online games, but now such a crime has been added. Many parents even proposed to ban the Internet for minors.

The instant messaging software involved naturally couldn't escape Yoyo's mouth, and YY and QQ were also affected, especially YY. After all, YY first obtained the first batch of loyal users through voice chat rooms, and was pushed to the forefront for a while.

Lei Jun said to Shen Lang depressedly: "How about turning off the voice chat room function temporarily?"

There is no doubt that shutting down the voice chat room is a huge blow to YY. The voice chat room has brought a large number of high-quality and loyal users to YY. Large-scale dungeons like World of Warcraft are basically impossible to play without the voice chat room.

Shen Lang finally agreed to Lei Jun's plan. Angry parents are the most irrational animals in the world. You must know that even cartoons like Blue Cat's Naughty Three Thousand Questions will be banned by parents for bloody and violent reports. It's good to avoid the edge temporarily.

"I just took this opportunity to check myself and see if there is any problem with our internal inspection and supercontrol."

In fact, as early as the early days of the opening of the voice chat room, Shen Lang formulated the system of super management ward rounds to prevent people from using the YY voice chat room to do such illegal activities. Can't help being surprised.

Lei Jun soon began to investigate the superman responsible for patrolling the chat room, from the chat records of their daily use of instant messaging software to whether there was any abnormality in the flow of their bank cards.

As a result, Shen Lang breathed a sigh of relief, and did not find anyone accepting bribes.

However, this also sounded the alarm for Shen Lang. He immediately called Zhang Yong to the office and had a long talk.

Later, in an open letter to employees, it was announced that the company will soon set up an inspection office to specifically target corruption in the workplace, and Zhang Yong will be the head of the inspection office.

Shen Lang's side is in a mess, and other Internet companies are not doing much better, especially companies like Sina, Netease, and Sohu whose main business is not originally instant messaging software.

Some executives even directly proposed to cut off the entire instant messaging software department at the meeting.

Penguin, who is the first brother of instant messaging software, naturally has no possibility of staying out of it, and Xiao Ma also found out in his self-examination that the QQ voice chat room does have side effects.

The reason is also very simple. At the beginning, Xiao Ma put a lot of pressure on the person in charge of the QQ Voice project in order to leverage the users of YY Voice, and the person in charge passed on the pressure to his subordinates.

Under layers of pressure, in order to complete the KPI tasks of their superiors, these subordinates naturally have to try various methods to complete them. It's not the kind of blatantly long-term project, and Chaoguan always turns a blind eye to it.

Coupled with YY's strict defense against this area, some gangs naturally focused on the fat meat of QQ traffic, and really made a lot of money by relying on it.

As long as it is an industry that can make money, there will be people who have sharpened their heads and drilled into it. With the help of these "noble people", the QQ voice project team has also exceeded the KPI.

Of course, there are also many side effects, and many users who are serious about playing chat rooms have gone to cleaner places.

If you don’t check, you don’t know. If you check it, you will be shocked. Brother Xiaoma was furious, cut off the entire QQ voice project team, and announced that the QQ voice function will be shut down indefinitely.

However, the media did not let Penguin go. Soon the article about the scandal of the No. [-] instant messaging software in China was deeply involved in the side-ball scandal began to spread wildly on the Internet, and many netizens expressed their disdain for QQ.

For a while, QQ became a street rat, and everyone shouted and beat it, and the entire Penguin was affected. The stock price experienced the biggest drop after listing, and the market value shrank by 20%.

Penguin quickly issued an apology announcement, expressing its confession, and also announced the shutdown of the QQ voice function.

However, netizens didn't buy it, and many netizens began to share some side-by-side behaviors they encountered in the QQ voice chat room.

Under the lingering mouths of netizens, many users don't even dare to log in to QQ, because as long as you log in to QQ, people around you will look at them with a very strange look, as if you registered for QQ for some ulterior motives. the goal of.

The number of simultaneous QQ online users has dropped from nearly 2000 million at the peak to 500 million, which is undoubtedly a serious injury.

Of course, YY is not feeling well either. The number of online users dropped from a peak of nearly 1000 million to 800 million.

This turmoil caused the entire instant messaging software industry in the mainland to encounter a huge crisis, and MSN also took advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to try to regain lost ground, gradually increasing its market share from the lowest 3% to 6%, and the number of users increased. double.

The influence was not limited to that, Shen Lang and Xiao Ma were also interviewed by the superiors.

This day, Shen Lang and Xiao Ma appeared at the Beijing airport together. It is unknown who leaked the news. A bunch of reporters came. The most depressing thing was that even some entertainment reporters came to join in the fun.

Shen Lang and Brother Xiao Ma, the two troubled brothers, also cared for each other without words but tears, so they could only silently get into their respective cars under the protection of bodyguards.

After arriving at the superior department, Shen Lang and brother Xiao Ma were arranged in a conference room, and then a few acquaintances came one after another, Zhang Chaoyang, Ding Sanshi, Cao Guowei, and a few strangers came one after another. are practitioners in this industry.

Shen Lang took the tea from a staff member and couldn't help smiling wryly at Ding Sanshi.

"Is this the legendary being invited to drink tea?"

Ding Sanshi said bitterly: "Well, this tea tastes pretty good. Mr. Shen may not be used to drinking it for the first time, but it will be fine if you get used to it a few more times."

Shen Lang rolled his eyes, who the hell wants to come here.

Not long after, a leader came in and glanced at everyone.

"Bosses, I have invited you here in the midst of your busy schedule. I believe everyone knows why?"

After everyone looked at each other, they were silent, especially a few of them kept their heads down.

The leader nodded: "Since we all know, then I won't talk nonsense. This matter must be explained to the public, what do you think?"

For a moment, the atmosphere in the room became extremely depressing, Brother Xiao Ma's gaze swept the crowd around, and finally landed on Shen Lang.

Seeing that no one spoke, Shen Lang asked tentatively.

"Leader, I want to know what you mean by this explanation"

The leader said in a deep voice: "After a meeting of the Ministry, it was decided to temporarily close all voice chat rooms, including non-client web chat rooms, from now on."

Immediately, there was a lot of discussion on the scene, and Shen Lang couldn't help but feel his heart tense. Brother Xiao Ma had a calm face. He had cut down the voice chat room department a long time ago, and it would be good for him if everyone closed it together.

Ding Sanshi asked: "Leader, is there no room for maneuver?"

The leader nodded firmly: "No."

Well, this time it's over, Shen Lang can't help being a little puzzled, it seems that there was no such a turmoil in his previous life, could it be that this little butterfly changed the course of history again?
Coming out of the superior department, Ding Sanshi originally planned to invite Shen Lang to dinner, Shen Lang couldn't help but spread his hands depressed.

"Do you think I'm still in the mood to eat now?"

After returning to Shanghai, Shen Lang gathered all the company's executives in the office for a meeting, and announced the news at the meeting.

Everyone was in an uproar, and the most difficult thing to accept was the person in charge of the YY voice project team. In this way, their entire project team might be cut off like the QQ voice project team.

The acting director of the Duowan community is also very depressed. In this way, the attractiveness of the Duowan game will be greatly reduced.

Shen Lang said in a deep voice: "Close the voice chat room is unavoidable, what we have to do now is how to minimize the loss."

Wang Tao spoke at this time, and he made a suggestion.

"Mr. Shen, can we do this? Let's build the function of the voice chat room directly into the game, so that at least our game users will not be lost due to the closure of the voice chat room."

Shen Lang's eyes lit up: "Built-in voice? This is also a way."

Lei Jun and other executives also felt that there was no way out, so they had to follow this.

After the meeting ended, Shen Lang left the person in charge of the YY voice chat room alone.

"Mr. Yu, we can't change the policy. We can only implement it. The business volume of the built-in voice is so large. It certainly doesn't need so many people to maintain it. Do you have any plans?"

Yu Liang thought that Shen Lang was going to lay him off, so he was about to cry.

However, in the next second, Shen Lang said: "Well, your team will leave a group to develop the built-in voice, and the rest will be led by you. Reorganize a project team and carry out the research and development of the voice information system."

Yu Liang almost thought he heard it wrong, and looked up at Shen Lang: "Boss Shen, don't you want to lay off us?"

"Why should I lay off you? The company's business is still in the development stage, and we can't find people to recruit. How could we lay off old employees?" Shen Lang smiled and patted him on the shoulder.

As he spoke, he handed Yu Liang two more tissues. Yu Liang wiped away his tears in embarrassment and blew his nose before throwing it into the trash can.

When the other party calmed down, Shen Lang said seriously.

"But the ugly words first, this voice information system will be a very core function of the company in the future, and it must be completed within two years. If you fail to meet the project progress in the middle, I will replace people at any time. You have to think clearly. , whether to stay and develop the built-in voice system, or take over this hot potato."

After thinking for a while, Yu Liang gritted his teeth and said, "Boss Shen, don't worry, you don't need to tell me if you can't reach the progress, I will hand in the resignation letter myself."

"Well, as long as you have confidence." Shen Lang patted Yu Liang on the shoulder.

"However, this voice message system is not so easy to do. I have a basic requirement for this system, which is to minimize the memory occupied by voice messages as much as possible. This is not as simple as the MMS sent by mobile phones."

"And there are also problems such as accents and noise interference among people in various places, which need to be resolved."

Yu Liang said to Shen Lang after hearing the words: "Mr. Shen, other things can be overcome with technology, but the problem of local accents is a bit troublesome. It requires a large number of voice databases for comparison and verification. With our current personnel alone, I am afraid can not complete."

Shen Lang nodded: "I know this, but labor alone will definitely not work, so I found a helper for you, and I will be here in a while."

Yu Liang looked at Shen Lang suspiciously, not knowing whether the helper Shen Lang mentioned was a proxy name or just one.

Not long after, a person entered the conference room.

Yu Liang looked at the other party in surprise: "Mr. Wang?"

Shen Lang stepped forward and hugged Wang Xiaochuan: "How about it, are you satisfied with the helper I found for you?"

Yu Liang couldn't help scratching his head: "Mr. Shen, don't play tricks on me. How dare I order Mr. Wang."

Although Wang Xiaochuan hasn't shown much in the company in the past two years, everyone knows that he is the first batch of backbone members of the company, and his status is no lower than that of He Xiaopeng. Fabi.

"Haha, I'm really not kidding you. This time, I'm here to cooperate with you in completing the voice information system." Wang Xiaochuan smiled and patted Yu Liang on the shoulder.

Seeing that Yu Liang was even more confused, Shen Lang didn't continue to play tricks.

"Mr. Wang has been researching intelligent algorithms for the past two years, and speech recognition is one of his achievements, which can just help you complete the tedious proofreading of speech databases."

Seeing Yu Liang's disbelief, Wang Xiaochuan immediately turned on his laptop, logged into his IA system, and took out a portable microphone.

"Come on, let me tell you something about your hometown."

After Yu Liang said a few words, Wang Xiaochuan almost frowned.

"Where are you from?"

"I'm from Wenzhou."

(End of this chapter)