Smart TVs have become the absolute mainstream in the market. In recent years, regardless of the positioning of new products introduced by major TV manufacturers, they will basically carry smart operating systems. These smart TVs can not only provide more native features, but also can download more APP applications through the Internet, and continue to expand new features. Therefore, some of the functions and programs that we commonly use in mobile phones can also be seen on TV, such as reading news, browsing web pages, performing various SNS social applications, and so on.
Smart TV input method blossoms
When people make more applications on smart TVs, it is naturally inevitable that they will need to input text or various characters, such as entering WIFI passwords, searching for online video resources, sending microblogs or WeChat, etc. The law is very important, it will directly affect the efficiency of the use of text input for your own use. Imagine if the process of inputting text on a TV is very troublesome and cumbersome, then you will definitely feel a crash, and even have the possibility of giving up. .
In general, all smart TV products come with their own input method software at the time of shipment. They are either developed by the TV manufacturers themselves or they choose to partner with third-party software vendors. However, due to the openness of the Android system, smart TVs based on the Android system can allow users to download the input method software. If everyone is not satisfied with the default input method of the smart TV, they can replace it by themselves. At the present time, the question has come: Which TV input method is stronger?
The uniqueness of TV input method
Before comparing the input method, we first discuss the difference between TV input method and computer and mobile phone input method. Since the actual needs of the user groups and users are completely different, the design of the TV input method is more unique: the operation interface is displayed on a large-screen television, and the area of ​​each virtual button needs to be made larger to ensure that the user sits. It can also be seen from a few meters away; at the same time, it is completely operated by a TV remote control, and most television remote controllers cannot configure a standard keyboard like a computer, and each smart TV is equipped with a remote controller. The same (such as some traditional multi-key remote control, some are simplified version or remote control with air mouse function), so we must fully consider the rationality and compatibility of the keyboard layout.
Since the TV screen cannot be directly touched, the number and arrangement of the virtual keyboard keys need to be carefully optimized, or the user is required to press the buttons more times. In addition, TV users will input more titles of TV dramas, movies, and videos, as well as the names of famous actors, artists, and artists. Therefore, it is best to update real-time popular TV drama movies and artist lists in the input word bank. It will be as comprehensive as mobile phones and PCs.
Compared with using the remote control to input text and characters, voice input is also more convenient and faster. At the same time, the environment in which the TV is located is in a private living room or bedroom. This environment is not particularly noisy, and it will not substantially affect the environment. Others work and rest, so voice input and control may have better prospects in the TV than smartphones.
Introduction of mainstream smart TV input method
At present, almost all smart TVs have some built-in input-method software by default. Some are developed entirely by themselves, such as LG, Samsung, Coocaa, etc., while others are downloadable through APP application stores, browsers, and other tools. Generally speaking, there are currently 3 third-party TV input methods with relatively high usage and exposure: Sogou TV input method, XFEI TV input method, and Google TV input method, but the number is much smaller than the input method of mobile phones.
There will also be many people who have doubts: Since both smart TVs and smart phones use Android systems, if the TV version of the input method is not large, then can we install the mobile version of the input method? After many tests, most Android phone input methods can be properly installed on the TV, but may not be practical. For example, the QQ input method can be normally installed in the CoolCard U55, but in fact, it does not have any reaction to the remote control, and it is not a practical use. Therefore, if you want to install a third-party TV input method APP, we recommend that you try to select the TV version, otherwise it can be installed normally, but it is very likely to be unusable. The input method programs developed by some smart TVs are basically installed in the system in a pre-installed form and will not be available for download. They are also optimized for the characteristics of their own brands and remote control settings, so they are not universally available. The representativeness will not appear in our list of comparative tests. Let us briefly introduce these three input methods.
Whether it is Sogou, Google or Xunfei, they all have high reputations and many users on PCs, mobile phones, and tablet PCs. Among them, Sogou TV input method inherits the advantages of the PC version and mobile version, and is optimized for devices such as smart TVs and smart boxes. The official promotion of its built-in more than 30,000 video-audio vocabularies, video search and other scenes more accurate input. And update the hotspots at any time to make input phrases faster.
The signal input method has powerful technology in speech recognition, and it also has good strength in keyboard text input. Although high-end smart TVs (parametric picture articles) now have voice input technology, there are still many low-end smart TVs that do not incorporate voice recognition, so their advantages cannot be fully realized. The Google input method is relatively more expected by everyone. After all, the Android system was developed by Google personally, and the Google input method also has a good reputation on PC personal computers, mobile phones, and tablet computers.
These three types of input methods can not only provide separate downloads, that is, they can be downloaded and installed in the APP application store, etc., and also cooperate with many TV manufacturers. The default is pre-installed in many models, such as everyone can be in TCL, Changhong, Konka, Hisense and other TVs saw their presence.
How do we compare and test these input methods
Test platform introduction
Although most smart TVs currently on the market use Android-based operating systems, they still have some differences. For example, some models have voice control functions, and these smart TVs have completely different remote controllers (some support Air rat technology, some with a new simple version of the remote control, but does not support the air mouse function, and some still use the traditional digital keypad remote control), so we choose here a price in the range of 4500 yuan to 5000 yuan price range Cool open 4K Internet smart TV U55 as a test platform, which does not have voice input function, equipped with a remote control without air mouse features ready to streamline, this type of product has a higher market share, so it has more reference. Next we introduce specific test items.
Program response speed
For an input method, when the user performs an operation in the remote control, such as pressing a button, the software must be responded within a very short time, otherwise it will cause everyone to "catching" the phenomenon, affecting the operation Experience.
Virtual keyboard layout
Unlike PCs and mobile phones, the layout of TV input method keyboards is more flexible, and some are arranged according to the standard keyboard mode, while others use different methods.
The number of special characters
In addition to searching for movies, TV dramas, and entertainers’ Chinese names, users will also use it to enter information such as WiFi passwords, web sites, etc., that is, when entering Chinese, English and numbers will be input, even some such as “&â€, “^†The special characters, Imagine if these characters appear in the WiFi password, and the input method once they can not play these special characters can be very maddening.
Popular vocabulary: movie name, drama name, artist name
In most cases, people will enter the names of well-known movies, TV shows, and related artists in the video client. Relatively speaking, the input phrase is more efficient than a single word. Here we are also testing the movie title and artist name with high search rate according to the Baidu Search Billboard. Among them, the film and television titles include: “Guardians of the Galaxy, Hearts and Flowers, and the Windâ€; entertainers The names include: "Li Yifeng, Lu Yi, Deng Ziqi, Jay Chou, Liu Shishi".
Spell correction
The majority of users use the Pinyin input method. Due to geographical differences, not all consumers can grasp the standard of pinyin. For example, the most common mistakes are plain tongue and tongue reverberation. In the input method, the two pinyin “pinban†and “diansi†errors are input to test whether these input methods can automatically correct errors and display the desired text option.
Program response speed and keyboard layout
First of all, let's take a look at the response speed of these three input methods. Since the overall hardware performance of current smart TVs (parametric picture articles) has been greatly improved compared to the early days, even the economical type of smart TV products have greatly increased their computing power on the CPU and graphics chips. The eight-core and ten-core smart TVs are already common. In the process of use, whether it is Google, Sogou or X-Fly is very smooth in the actual operation, the overall response is very fast, so we do not have to worry too much about software fluency. If it is a more high-end smart TV, there will be no Caton phenomenon. Let's take a look at the key distribution of these three input methods APP.
In terms of keyboard character arrangement, Sogou TV input method and Google TV input method all use the same key distribution as the PC standard keyboard. For users who are accustomed to using PC computers, such distribution is more helpful for users to find each key. Corresponding characters, but if you are an older user who is completely inexperienced with PC operation, it may be more convenient to use traditional a to z distribution methods such as XF.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that the X-Five TV input method provides full keyboard and nine-grid modes under the Chinese input interface. If users are accustomed to using mobile phone input, the efficiency of typing in the nine-grid mode may be higher. Because it is almost consistent with the habit of typing in mobile phones at ordinary times, if equipped with a remote control with digital keys, then the typing efficiency will no doubt be higher, almost consistent with the mobile phone.
Who can input more special characters?
As we discussed in the previous article, for security reasons, many users set up more complex passwords for wireless routers in their homes, which greatly increases the appearance rate of special characters. For PC users, entering these special characters is certainly not a problem, but it may not be true for smart TVs (parametric picture articles). In general, everyone will solve this problem by installing third-party input methods. Here we take a look at the three TV input method APP support for special characters.
From the above, we can see that Sogou TV and Xunfei TV have the most special characters supported by the input method. Although Xunfei has a slight advantage in terms of number, we can see that it mainly supports more URL shortcuts, but The shortcuts such as "msn", ".hk", and "wap" are less likely to be used by ordinary users. Therefore, Sohu TV's support for special characters is more practical. The special character supported by Google TV input method is much smaller than the other two APPs, which can support commonly used punctuation, but such as "^" is incompatible with it.
In addition, Sogou TV and Xunfei TV have added the function of special character page turning, the purpose is to accommodate more characters, but their page buttons are not obvious, it is easy to be ignored by the user, if you can turn the page button into other The color plays a role of reminding the user, so the actual effect may be better.
Popular vocabulary input accuracy competition
Different from PC computers, mobile phones, and tablet users, users enter more text on smart TVs (parametric picture articles) based on the names of movies and TV shows, singers, and actors. We also know that the efficiency of using phrase input is positive. It is higher than a single word, so here's a test of the number of word banks for each input method. According to the Baidu search Billboard, we will test the names of the movies and the names of the artists who have higher search rates recently as a sample. The names of the film and television works include: "Guardians of the Galaxy, Hearts and Flowers, and Pocahontas." Artist names include : "Li Yifeng, Lu Yi, Deng Ziqi, Jay Chou, Liu Shishi". The following is the test result.
In terms of the accuracy of popular vocabulary input methods, Sogou TV performed the best, and Google TV input method had almost no way to accurately input these popular phrases and performed the worst, indicating that its lexicon did not include any popular vocabulary at all. However, Google TV input method still has its own advantages, such as...
Google TV input method has a strong ability to learn. If a user enters a phrase he or she has created, the user will enter the same pinyin next time as a phrase. If it was previously impossible to enter the "Luhan" accurately, when we manually select it, we will enter "luhan" and the phrase will appear. Of course, Sogou and Infofly also have this feature.
Error correction ability comparison test
Due to the vastness of China’s territory and due to geographical differences, not all people’s Putonghua speaks like a standard, and the mastery of Pinyin is so accurate, it is very likely that there will be misspellings in Pinyin, among which the plain tongue sound and the antonym sound And the frontal and rear nasal sounds have the most relative errors. So when these mistakes are made by users, can these TV input methods correct and guess the users' intent? Here we input the pinyin "pinban" and "diansi" in the input method to see if we can get the desired phrase.
After many tests, we can see that the three TV input methods have no spelling correction capability. They prefer to output some inexplicable phrases and are not willing to increase the scope of the lexicon search. The spelling correction function is used on PCs and mobile phones. The input method has long been available. It can be seen that the TV input method still has many areas for improvement.
After testing several projects, we can see that in the platform of Kukai U55, which can represent popularized smart TVs, Sogou TV input method has a significant advantage in terms of the number of thesauri. It also supports special characters. Also very good, ideal for smart TV users. The signal input method can only be second in the absence of voice technology support, but if the TV remote control still retains the number keys, then the input efficiency is still relatively high, but the new digital TV is equipped with traditional buttons There are fewer and fewer remote controls, and they gradually begin to shift to somatosensory remotes. However, in the somatosensory remote control mode, the information flight T9 button layout basically does not play the greatest power. The Google input method can only basically function as input text, and it is very unsatisfactory whether it is in the thesaurus or special characters. It is obviously weaker than Sogou and Information Flight.
However, in the test, we can clearly experience that even the best performing Sogou TV input method, its input efficiency in the simple version of the remote control is still very low, and in many cases it is also crazy, compared to the PC The input efficiency of computers, mobile phones, and tablet computers is much lower. The main reason is that the number of virtual keyboard keys is too many. It is very troublesome to move back and forth between different keys, and you need to keep pressing the arrow keys. Although the somatosensory remote control can alleviate this problem to a certain extent, it is only a temporary solution, and the input efficiency is still very much lower than that of mobile phones. Therefore, in this case, consumers use television to watch Internet videos more than Will be similar to SNS social, in-game chat and other applications.
At the same time, it is precisely because there are not many users who use these applications. The number of input method software for TV versions will be much less than that for mobile phones and PCs. Considering the development cost, there will not be too many companies developing for a very small number of users. product. In addition, even for Sohu, Google and Xunfei, we obviously feel that they have weaker functions such as expansion of the thesaurus and Pinyin error correction. These functions were already implemented on the PC side many years ago. It can be seen that software developers have not invested too much effort in smart TVs, and they have not encountered technical bottlenecks. Inconvenient text input has caused everyone to have the greatest difficulty in using smart TVs.
As smart TVs and smart phones are now more focused on convergence, many TV manufacturers have introduced mobile phone control APP client, which turns the phone completely into a TV remote control, so that the input text is achieved through the mobile phone, so that the input efficiency is greatly increase. Even many TV manufacturers began to operate and interact via WeChat so that consumers do not need to install APP programs in their mobile phones. They only need to follow the relevant public numbers in WeChat, and then use the mobile phone in the relevant interface. Entering the video name, artist name, and chat content, etc., can completely abandon the television input, and even more radical manufacturers even want to completely replace the traditional remote control with a mobile phone. The design of the remote control does not take into account the existence of the remote control. Although this approach and concept may not necessarily be accepted by all consumers, it also means that the future TV version of the input method will come to an end, because with the help of the smart phone platform, users no longer need to use the remote control. Apart from the input method, accessories that have been used for more than a decade have faced the danger of being "eliminated" in other APP-specific programs for smart TVs. Smart TV APP ecosystems may also experience a tremendous evolution.
Smart TV input method blossoms
When people make more applications on smart TVs, it is naturally inevitable that they will need to input text or various characters, such as entering WIFI passwords, searching for online video resources, sending microblogs or WeChat, etc. The law is very important, it will directly affect the efficiency of the use of text input for your own use. Imagine if the process of inputting text on a TV is very troublesome and cumbersome, then you will definitely feel a crash, and even have the possibility of giving up. .
If you want to search for videos and perform SNS social website operations, you must enter text
In general, all smart TV products come with their own input method software at the time of shipment. They are either developed by the TV manufacturers themselves or they choose to partner with third-party software vendors. However, due to the openness of the Android system, smart TVs based on the Android system can allow users to download the input method software. If everyone is not satisfied with the default input method of the smart TV, they can replace it by themselves. At the present time, the question has come: Which TV input method is stronger?
The uniqueness of TV input method
Before comparing the input method, we first discuss the difference between TV input method and computer and mobile phone input method. Since the actual needs of the user groups and users are completely different, the design of the TV input method is more unique: the operation interface is displayed on a large-screen television, and the area of ​​each virtual button needs to be made larger to ensure that the user sits. It can also be seen from a few meters away; at the same time, it is completely operated by a TV remote control, and most television remote controllers cannot configure a standard keyboard like a computer, and each smart TV is equipped with a remote controller. The same (such as some traditional multi-key remote control, some are simplified version or remote control with air mouse function), so we must fully consider the rationality and compatibility of the keyboard layout.
TVs and mobile phones use different distances and methods of operation and need to be optimized separately
Since the TV screen cannot be directly touched, the number and arrangement of the virtual keyboard keys need to be carefully optimized, or the user is required to press the buttons more times. In addition, TV users will input more titles of TV dramas, movies, and videos, as well as the names of famous actors, artists, and artists. Therefore, it is best to update real-time popular TV drama movies and artist lists in the input word bank. It will be as comprehensive as mobile phones and PCs.
Although voice input is fast, it may disturb the lives or rest of other people in your home.
Compared with using the remote control to input text and characters, voice input is also more convenient and faster. At the same time, the environment in which the TV is located is in a private living room or bedroom. This environment is not particularly noisy, and it will not substantially affect the environment. Others work and rest, so voice input and control may have better prospects in the TV than smartphones.
Introduction of mainstream smart TV input method
At present, almost all smart TVs have some built-in input-method software by default. Some are developed entirely by themselves, such as LG, Samsung, Coocaa, etc., while others are downloadable through APP application stores, browsers, and other tools. Generally speaking, there are currently 3 third-party TV input methods with relatively high usage and exposure: Sogou TV input method, XFEI TV input method, and Google TV input method, but the number is much smaller than the input method of mobile phones.
Many smart TVs have their own input method software built in. Of course, some manufacturers will also cooperate with third-party input method providers.
There will also be many people who have doubts: Since both smart TVs and smart phones use Android systems, if the TV version of the input method is not large, then can we install the mobile version of the input method? After many tests, most Android phone input methods can be properly installed on the TV, but may not be practical. For example, the QQ input method can be normally installed in the CoolCard U55, but in fact, it does not have any reaction to the remote control, and it is not a practical use. Therefore, if you want to install a third-party TV input method APP, we recommend that you try to select the TV version, otherwise it can be installed normally, but it is very likely to be unusable. The input method programs developed by some smart TVs are basically installed in the system in a pre-installed form and will not be available for download. They are also optimized for the characteristics of their own brands and remote control settings, so they are not universally available. The representativeness will not appear in our list of comparative tests. Let us briefly introduce these three input methods.
Some Android phone input methods can be installed normally on Android Smart TV but cannot be used
Whether it is Sogou, Google or Xunfei, they all have high reputations and many users on PCs, mobile phones, and tablet PCs. Among them, Sogou TV input method inherits the advantages of the PC version and mobile version, and is optimized for devices such as smart TVs and smart boxes. The official promotion of its built-in more than 30,000 video-audio vocabularies, video search and other scenes more accurate input. And update the hotspots at any time to make input phrases faster.
Sogou input method has many users on PC and mobile phones
The signal input method has powerful technology in speech recognition, and it also has good strength in keyboard text input. Although high-end smart TVs (parametric picture articles) now have voice input technology, there are still many low-end smart TVs that do not incorporate voice recognition, so their advantages cannot be fully realized. The Google input method is relatively more expected by everyone. After all, the Android system was developed by Google personally, and the Google input method also has a good reputation on PC personal computers, mobile phones, and tablet computers.
Infofly input method is known for its speech recognition technology, but it cannot perform its full function on TVs that do not support voice operation.
These three types of input methods can not only provide separate downloads, that is, they can be downloaded and installed in the APP application store, etc., and also cooperate with many TV manufacturers. The default is pre-installed in many models, such as everyone can be in TCL, Changhong, Konka, Hisense and other TVs saw their presence.
How do we compare and test these input methods
Test platform introduction
Although most smart TVs currently on the market use Android-based operating systems, they still have some differences. For example, some models have voice control functions, and these smart TVs have completely different remote controllers (some support Air rat technology, some with a new simple version of the remote control, but does not support the air mouse function, and some still use the traditional digital keypad remote control), so we choose here a price in the range of 4500 yuan to 5000 yuan price range Cool open 4K Internet smart TV U55 as a test platform, which does not have voice input function, equipped with a remote control without air mouse features ready to streamline, this type of product has a higher market share, so it has more reference. Next we introduce specific test items.
Test platform: cool open U55 TV, using Android operating system, but does not support voice, remote control does not support somatosensory
Program response speed
For an input method, when the user performs an operation in the remote control, such as pressing a button, the software must be responded within a very short time, otherwise it will cause everyone to "catching" the phenomenon, affecting the operation Experience.
Virtual keyboard layout
Unlike PCs and mobile phones, the layout of TV input method keyboards is more flexible, and some are arranged according to the standard keyboard mode, while others use different methods.
The number of special characters
In addition to searching for movies, TV dramas, and entertainers’ Chinese names, users will also use it to enter information such as WiFi passwords, web sites, etc., that is, when entering Chinese, English and numbers will be input, even some such as “&â€, “^†The special characters, Imagine if these characters appear in the WiFi password, and the input method once they can not play these special characters can be very maddening.
Cool open U55 remote control function is very few, and there is no number keys, the need for input method optimization is in place to improve the efficiency of typing
Popular vocabulary: movie name, drama name, artist name
In most cases, people will enter the names of well-known movies, TV shows, and related artists in the video client. Relatively speaking, the input phrase is more efficient than a single word. Here we are also testing the movie title and artist name with high search rate according to the Baidu Search Billboard. Among them, the film and television titles include: “Guardians of the Galaxy, Hearts and Flowers, and the Windâ€; entertainers The names include: "Li Yifeng, Lu Yi, Deng Ziqi, Jay Chou, Liu Shishi".
Spell correction
The majority of users use the Pinyin input method. Due to geographical differences, not all consumers can grasp the standard of pinyin. For example, the most common mistakes are plain tongue and tongue reverberation. In the input method, the two pinyin “pinban†and “diansi†errors are input to test whether these input methods can automatically correct errors and display the desired text option.
Program response speed and keyboard layout
First of all, let's take a look at the response speed of these three input methods. Since the overall hardware performance of current smart TVs (parametric picture articles) has been greatly improved compared to the early days, even the economical type of smart TV products have greatly increased their computing power on the CPU and graphics chips. The eight-core and ten-core smart TVs are already common. In the process of use, whether it is Google, Sogou or X-Fly is very smooth in the actual operation, the overall response is very fast, so we do not have to worry too much about software fluency. If it is a more high-end smart TV, there will be no Caton phenomenon. Let's take a look at the key distribution of these three input methods APP.
Sogou TV input method keyboard
Google TV Keyboard Keyboard
Signal Flight TV Input Method Provides Two Chinese Input Methods
In terms of keyboard character arrangement, Sogou TV input method and Google TV input method all use the same key distribution as the PC standard keyboard. For users who are accustomed to using PC computers, such distribution is more helpful for users to find each key. Corresponding characters, but if you are an older user who is completely inexperienced with PC operation, it may be more convenient to use traditional a to z distribution methods such as XF.
Some smart TVs use remote controllers equipped with traditional digital buttons, which will be more efficient when used in the four-channel input mode.
In addition, it is worth mentioning that the X-Five TV input method provides full keyboard and nine-grid modes under the Chinese input interface. If users are accustomed to using mobile phone input, the efficiency of typing in the nine-grid mode may be higher. Because it is almost consistent with the habit of typing in mobile phones at ordinary times, if equipped with a remote control with digital keys, then the typing efficiency will no doubt be higher, almost consistent with the mobile phone.
Who can input more special characters?
As we discussed in the previous article, for security reasons, many users set up more complex passwords for wireless routers in their homes, which greatly increases the appearance rate of special characters. For PC users, entering these special characters is certainly not a problem, but it may not be true for smart TVs (parametric picture articles). In general, everyone will solve this problem by installing third-party input methods. Here we take a look at the three TV input method APP support for special characters.
Sogou TV input method supports a total of 49 special character input
Google TV input method supports a total of 22 special symbol input
Signal Flight TV input method supports a total of 50 special character input
From the above, we can see that Sogou TV and Xunfei TV have the most special characters supported by the input method. Although Xunfei has a slight advantage in terms of number, we can see that it mainly supports more URL shortcuts, but The shortcuts such as "msn", ".hk", and "wap" are less likely to be used by ordinary users. Therefore, Sohu TV's support for special characters is more practical. The special character supported by Google TV input method is much smaller than the other two APPs, which can support commonly used punctuation, but such as "^" is incompatible with it.
In addition, Sogou TV and Xunfei TV have added the function of special character page turning, the purpose is to accommodate more characters, but their page buttons are not obvious, it is easy to be ignored by the user, if you can turn the page button into other The color plays a role of reminding the user, so the actual effect may be better.
Popular vocabulary input accuracy competition
Different from PC computers, mobile phones, and tablet users, users enter more text on smart TVs (parametric picture articles) based on the names of movies and TV shows, singers, and actors. We also know that the efficiency of using phrase input is positive. It is higher than a single word, so here's a test of the number of word banks for each input method. According to the Baidu search Billboard, we will test the names of the movies and the names of the artists who have higher search rates recently as a sample. The names of the film and television works include: "Guardians of the Galaxy, Hearts and Flowers, and Pocahontas." Artist names include : "Li Yifeng, Lu Yi, Deng Ziqi, Jay Chou, Liu Shishi". The following is the test result.
Sogou TV input method popular vocabulary accuracy test
Test of TV Word Input Vocabulary Accuracy Accuracy Test
Google TV input method popular vocabulary accuracy test
In terms of the accuracy of popular vocabulary input methods, Sogou TV performed the best, and Google TV input method had almost no way to accurately input these popular phrases and performed the worst, indicating that its lexicon did not include any popular vocabulary at all. However, Google TV input method still has its own advantages, such as...
Google TV input method has a strong learning ability (of course, Sogou and Xunfei are also the same)
Google TV input method has a strong ability to learn. If a user enters a phrase he or she has created, the user will enter the same pinyin next time as a phrase. If it was previously impossible to enter the "Luhan" accurately, when we manually select it, we will enter "luhan" and the phrase will appear. Of course, Sogou and Infofly also have this feature.
Error correction ability comparison test
Due to the vastness of China’s territory and due to geographical differences, not all people’s Putonghua speaks like a standard, and the mastery of Pinyin is so accurate, it is very likely that there will be misspellings in Pinyin, among which the plain tongue sound and the antonym sound And the frontal and rear nasal sounds have the most relative errors. So when these mistakes are made by users, can these TV input methods correct and guess the users' intent? Here we input the pinyin "pinban" and "diansi" in the input method to see if we can get the desired phrase.
None of the three television input methods have the ability to correct fuzzy sounds
After many tests, we can see that the three TV input methods have no spelling correction capability. They prefer to output some inexplicable phrases and are not willing to increase the scope of the lexicon search. The spelling correction function is used on PCs and mobile phones. The input method has long been available. It can be seen that the TV input method still has many areas for improvement.
Recommend the future evolution of APP and input methods
After testing several projects, we can see that in the platform of Kukai U55, which can represent popularized smart TVs, Sogou TV input method has a significant advantage in terms of the number of thesauri. It also supports special characters. Also very good, ideal for smart TV users. The signal input method can only be second in the absence of voice technology support, but if the TV remote control still retains the number keys, then the input efficiency is still relatively high, but the new digital TV is equipped with traditional buttons There are fewer and fewer remote controls, and they gradually begin to shift to somatosensory remotes. However, in the somatosensory remote control mode, the information flight T9 button layout basically does not play the greatest power. The Google input method can only basically function as input text, and it is very unsatisfactory whether it is in the thesaurus or special characters. It is obviously weaker than Sogou and Information Flight.
Somatosensory remote control will increase the efficiency of text input, but there is still no convenient mobile phone
However, in the test, we can clearly experience that even the best performing Sogou TV input method, its input efficiency in the simple version of the remote control is still very low, and in many cases it is also crazy, compared to the PC The input efficiency of computers, mobile phones, and tablet computers is much lower. The main reason is that the number of virtual keyboard keys is too many. It is very troublesome to move back and forth between different keys, and you need to keep pressing the arrow keys. Although the somatosensory remote control can alleviate this problem to a certain extent, it is only a temporary solution, and the input efficiency is still very much lower than that of mobile phones. Therefore, in this case, consumers use television to watch Internet videos more than Will be similar to SNS social, in-game chat and other applications.
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At the same time, it is precisely because there are not many users who use these applications. The number of input method software for TV versions will be much less than that for mobile phones and PCs. Considering the development cost, there will not be too many companies developing for a very small number of users. product. In addition, even for Sohu, Google and Xunfei, we obviously feel that they have weaker functions such as expansion of the thesaurus and Pinyin error correction. These functions were already implemented on the PC side many years ago. It can be seen that software developers have not invested too much effort in smart TVs, and they have not encountered technical bottlenecks. Inconvenient text input has caused everyone to have the greatest difficulty in using smart TVs.
Through the full integration with mobile phones, text input speed can be greatly improved
As smart TVs and smart phones are now more focused on convergence, many TV manufacturers have introduced mobile phone control APP client, which turns the phone completely into a TV remote control, so that the input text is achieved through the mobile phone, so that the input efficiency is greatly increase. Even many TV manufacturers began to operate and interact via WeChat so that consumers do not need to install APP programs in their mobile phones. They only need to follow the relevant public numbers in WeChat, and then use the mobile phone in the relevant interface. Entering the video name, artist name, and chat content, etc., can completely abandon the television input, and even more radical manufacturers even want to completely replace the traditional remote control with a mobile phone. The design of the remote control does not take into account the existence of the remote control. Although this approach and concept may not necessarily be accepted by all consumers, it also means that the future TV version of the input method will come to an end, because with the help of the smart phone platform, users no longer need to use the remote control. Apart from the input method, accessories that have been used for more than a decade have faced the danger of being "eliminated" in other APP-specific programs for smart TVs. Smart TV APP ecosystems may also experience a tremendous evolution.
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