Today, NetEase Youdao announced that Hi Echo, the world's first virtual language coach equipped with the Confucius education model, officially launched an independent APP and wechat mini program. This one-to-one speaking coach has all-weather multi-platform accompanying ability, which will better provide users with high-quality speaking practice anytime and anywhere, so that users can completely bid farewell to dumb English.

It is reported that Hi Echo continuous monthly package 68 yuan/month, annual member 698 yuan/year, continuous package 498 yuan/year. This means that users can practice speaking English for a whole year with Hi Echo for the cost of just one class.
At the end of July this year, the "POWERED BY Zi Yuetao Education big model application results Conference" was held in Beijing, and the virtual speaking coach Hi Echo was officially unveiled, showing everyone the best sample of English oral practice artifacts in the era of artificial intelligence.
At the meeting, Hi Echo's performance was not bad, the expression was vivid, the mouth was natural, the pronunciation was authentic, the details of stress, weak reading, rising and falling tone were almost perfect. At the same time, in the random dialogue with the presenter, Hi Echo is acting like a real person, from "life goal 100 million" to "Chengdu hot pot", from "panda twins and flowers and leaves" to "favorite author Liu Cixin"... It not only understands the meaning efficiently, but also gives feedback quickly, showing superior reasoning ability, language ability and emotional ability.
Why has Hi Echo attracted so much attention and expectation since its debut? First of all, it hits the pain points of Chinese people learning English: it is difficult to speak, dare not speak, can not speak. The key lies in the lack of language environment.
The online oral practice class is limited by the way of content generation and can only provide fixed dialogue practice. Offline oral practice class, the customer price is high, the practice time is not guaranteed, not to mention the social fear of English learners are often more ashamed to speak in the face of real foreign teachers. As a result, many people lack the environment to practice English, which makes it difficult to use English as a communication tool. Virtual language coach HiEcho can bring users a conversation context that fits life, and help learners to speak English better in a guided way.
According to reports, Hi Echo covers a large number of conversation scenes, including exams, workplaces, food, interests, travel and other 68 topics.
Even beginners with uneven levels do not need to worry about making mistakes, let alone fear of social terrorism, because Hi Echo is considerate, even if the pronunciation is not standard, sick sentences are not hinder communication, she can also take the initiative to change the topic, guide users to launch multiple rounds of dialogue, create more talk more practice context. In addition, after the end of the dialogue, the product will score the dialogue from two dimensions of pronunciation and grammar, and give optimization suggestions in three levels of grammar, diction and style.
It is worth emphasizing that Hi Echo is equipped with the first domestic education model "Zi Yue". This model relies on NetEase Youdao's technical precipitation and rich data accumulation in the field of education technology, aiming to empower products through in-depth research and analysis of users' needs in different scenarios, so as to provide users with a more personalized and efficient learning experience.
It is understood that the virtual language coach has taken the lead in landing Youdao Dictionary Pen X6 pro in August this year, and has brought a lot of quality feedback from users, and the product has won the excellent results of "electronic dictionary hot list first" and "Dictionary pen industry single product sales first" on Tmall and Jingdong platforms.
After the official launch of the independent APP and wechat mini program, this "oral practice artifact" will bring learning convenience to more English learners. Whether it is the needs of students' oral ability training, or the needs of adults' oral ability improvement, Hi Echo can fully meet, and bring users an unprecedented dialogue experience.
Compared with tens of thousands of online and offline speaking courses, Hi Echo has brought a very cost-effective fee package: continuous monthly package 68 yuan/month, annual member 698 yuan/year, continuous package 498 yuan/year.
"This is the tuition fee of a foreign teacher for a class, this oral English teacher on call, really sweet!" Some netizens commented.