On January 10th, according to the official WeChat account of Youdao Dictionary, NetEase Youdao has reached a strategic cooperation with the British Council, the organizer of the IELTS exam, to launch IELTS exam resources such as the IELTS exam question bank and simulated IELTS scoring in the March new version of the virtual human Hi Echo for oral practice.
In October 2023, NetEase Youdao Information Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. opened the download of the virtual human Hi Echo for oral practice. This product provides oral dialogue scenarios and topics, oral scoring reports, and other oral practice services. NetEase Youdao's "Confucius" education model also provides content generation and dialogue ability support.