Chapter 32

Incorporating his classmates' suggestions, Li Xiangdong decided that the newly released paid software should feature a streamlined function set, clearly outperforming other software in its monetized offerings. This would establish a clear market position and make it easier to achieve success. Li Xiangdong chose the translation function as the first paid feature to be integrated into the Mobile Assistant. Assisted by Xiaoqiang, Li Xiangdong spent two days adding voice input and translation capabilities to the Mobile Assistant, and finished writing the translation software. The completed application was a mere 7.5 MB in size and initially supported only voice input and written mutual translation between the Chinese and English languages. The core of the translation software was actually the translation engine of the Portable Smart Brain. Following Xiaoqiang's continuous learning on the Blue Planet internet, Xiaoqiang was not only fully fluent in commonly used languages on Earth such as Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish, but also handled less common languages like Dutch, Italian, German, Japanese, and Korean with absolute precision. The translation proficiency had reached the level of real-time translation, with results virtually identical to those of human professionals. This was primarily thanks to Li Xiangdong porting this translation engine into the Mobile Assistant; combined with the management of an artificial intelligence like Xiaoqiang, the results…