{"id":195774,"date":"2025-09-03T03:22:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T03:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/195774\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T03:22:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T03:22:16","slug":"chinas-latest-ai-gadget-is-credit-card-sized-recorder-as-alibabas-dingtalk-takes-on-plaud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/195774\/","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s latest AI gadget is credit card-sized recorder as Alibaba\u2019s DingTalk takes on Plaud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The latest artificial intelligence gadget in China is a credit-card sized note-taking recorder from Alibaba Group Holding\u2019s DingTalk unit, as Chinese firms introduce rival products to Plaud, the popular AI note-taker developed by a US start-up.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Alibaba-backed workplace collaboration platform DingTalk last month unveiled an AI-powered voice recorder &#8211; able to record and transcribe voices and present them in various content formats such as minutes \u2013 joining a wave of Chinese tech firms that are baking AI into hardware products.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Unveiled in late August at a corporate event commemorating the 10th anniversary of the office tool, the DingTalk A1 recorder packs various AI capabilities \u2013 from meeting transcriptions and summaries to real-time translation in multiple languages \u2013 into a form factor of similar size and weight to a stack of several credit cards.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The recorder\u2019s transcription capability was developed in partnership with Alibaba\u2019s Tongyi AI lab, using over 100 million hours of audio content for training, enabling it to \u201cunderstand\u201d more than 100 languages and 30 Chinese dialects as well as jargon across 200 industries, DingTalk chief executive Chen Hang said at the unveiling of the gadget.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The DingTalk AI-powered voice recorder. Photo: Handout\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/ab9b6b49-4911-4780-86ea-eaf100ac7a76_93822537.jpg\" title=\"The DingTalk AI-powered voice recorder. Photo: Handout\"\/>The DingTalk AI-powered voice recorder. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Its AI-powered multilingual ability makes it a personal \u201cAI office assistant\u201d, as the company described it, allowing any office worker to take meeting minutes, conduct real-time translation and summarise lengthy recordings without human intervention.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The DingTalk A1 comes in two models priced at 499 yuan (US$69.98) and 799 yuan. By comparison, the newly launched Plaud Note Pro is priced at US$179.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest artificial intelligence gadget in China is a credit-card sized note-taking recorder from Alibaba Group Holding\u2019s DingTalk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":195775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[691,108910,2017,6229,738,9710,108911,74,22165,108907,2012,9485,108908,108913,108912,108909,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-195774","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-ai-hardware-market","10":"tag-alibaba-group-holding","11":"tag-amazon-com","12":"tag-artificial-intelligence","13":"tag-beijing","14":"tag-chen-hang","15":"tag-china","16":"tag-chinese","17":"tag-dingtalk","18":"tag-huawei","19":"tag-lenovo","20":"tag-liu-chuang","21":"tag-mobvoi","22":"tag-plaud","23":"tag-runto","24":"tag-technology","25":"tag-united-states","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115138222032765028","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}