It was drizzling and the east wind was slightly cold.

Turning the corner, a three-story building came into Zhou Lin's sight.

Stopping to pedal, the bike slowed down and stopped right in front of a shop.

During this time, he pedaled his bicycle every day to practice his physical fitness, so that his cycling skills returned to the peak of his pre-high school graduation era.

Checking out and locking the car, taking off the poncho and casually folding it and stuffing it into a plastic bag, Zhou Lin turned his head and looked at the other side.

Just a few days ago, he came here and personally picked up the second-hand smart dolls that had been cleaned, refurbished, and remodeled.

I have to say that the tiger's technique is absolutely impeccable and worthy of praise, the special value of more than 7,000 flowers smashed on it before and after, holding the sheets rolled for a few days, once made Zhou Lin have the crazy idea of not wanting to get out of bed, let alone going to work. It's a pity that good flowers don't bloom often, and good times don't last long.

After the system update last night, his doll became "dumb", and there was no problem with normal conversation, but when it came to the critical moment, he was dumb, and even the most basic humming and chirping were missing, which was really infuriating. At first, he thought that the file was corrupted due to an update error, and he spent money on several other personality voice packs, only to find that the situation had not changed as before, and then he realized that the problem was not on his side.

went to the official website forum and turned around, and Zhou Lin realized that it was the problem of the digital tiger itself. In order to comply with laws and regulations, they took the initiative to clean up the voice files of the smart doll of the Bank of China, and deleted all the sentences that might make people want to be crooked. This is a rule, but it has also ruined more than half of the attractiveness of smart dolls, and has made domestic users miserable, and the online scolding can be described as overwhelming.

After such a big event, Zhou Lin's enthusiasm and curiosity as a media person - online media is also a media - was quickly awakened. There are 7 adult men out of 8 users on the website, and they have always lacked resistance to this kind of news involving orange products. For this reason, on the first day of work after the holiday, he specially asked the physical trainer for half a day off and made a special trip to the Tiger after-sales center, intending to track and record the incident throughout the process.

Thinking of making a big news, completing monthly performance, and getting a promotion and salary increase to the pinnacle of life, Zhou Lin pushed open the glass door and entered the digital tiger after-sales center in the island city.

The store is brightly lit, and a warm breeze blows in your face, sending whispers and muffled noises.

Raising his eyes and scanning around, he found that there were more than a dozen people gathered here, three or four of them were gathered around the service desk, arguing in a low voice, and the remaining ten or so people were scattered all over the store, pretending to chat in a low voice, but their eyes swept over the service desk from time to time, obviously paying attention to the negotiation over there.

"Is the product too expensive and there are too few users, or are you embarrassed to come over?" muttering to himself, Zhou Lin took out his mobile phone, pretended to check the scarf, and quietly pressed the shutter button on the back of the crowd. The flash was not turned on, the shutter was muted, and no one noticed that he took more than a dozen photos in a row.

Taking a casual look at the effect, he looked up at the direction of the service desk, decided to start from the periphery first, put away his mobile phone and walked to the nearest group of people, and greeted him familiarly: "Brothers, what is the situation?"

Hearing this, several people turned their heads and glanced at him. A tall and thin guy nodded at him, "We're here to defend our rights." ”

Noticing that the other party had reservations, Zhou Lin took out a delicate card from his pocket, "It just so happens that I'm also here to defend my rights." Last night's update couldn't be more pitiful, and my doll became dumb after the update!"

Seeing the tiger doll smart after-sales card in his hand, everyone's attitude was obviously eased a lot, and the thin guy nodded, "Well, mine too." I didn't pay attention at the time, and when I heard that there was an update, I casually agreed, and then my doll became cold, and I didn't give you a reaction no matter how I got it, so I was really angry!"

The more the guy talked, the more angry he became, and he couldn't help but burst out: "Damn, what kind of bird patch size is only 23KB, it's strange at a glance, I knew I wouldn't update it, it's really unlucky!"

Hearing this, the square-faced young man next to him shook his head and opened his mouth to retort: "It's useless, the title of that patch package is in red, and the red letter means extremely important, automatically downloaded, and cannot be skipped." As long as the doll is connected to the internet, it will automatically download all the red patches. And once you download the patch, you are left with the right to choose whether to install it immediately or later. If you choose to install later, you'll be reminded every few minutes and keep asking you 'I received an important update, do you want to install it?', which is guaranteed to annoy you!"

"Ah, is there such a thing?" the thin guy was surprised when he heard about it for the first time, "What should I do then?

"It's useful to be off the network, but it's not easy to use," Zhou Lin interjected when he saw the opportunity: "Just like this guy said, as long as you receive an update, you will be constantly reminded to install it, even if the network is disconnected." Unless you disconnect from the internet before the official announcement comes out, you can be sure that you are safe. Also, be aware that the phone used to connect to the doll should also be disconnected, as updates can be obtained through the mobile app. ”

"Damn, and this operation?" At this time, not only the thin guy expressed surprise, but even the square-faced man was full of shock, "Stealing traffic openly, the tiger is going to heaven?"

"It's not stealing, right?,There's an option for 'automatic download of important updates' in the mobile app settings.,There's a corresponding clause in the user agreement.,Didn't you read it?"

The skinny guy shook his head, "Look at what that thing does, whether it's software, websites, or games, I never look at the content of the agreement." ”

The square-faced man echoed: "I don't look at it either." Even if there are any objections, people will not change them, and reading them is equivalent to looking at them in vain. If the product is good, the overlord agreement must be agreed, and if the product is not good, the agreement will not be much fair. ”

"Then what are you going to do?" Zhou Lin asked: "Tiger CEO Liu Haiyang said on his neck that this update is for legal compliance, and will not revoke the patch or provide a way to roll back. All BNM aircraft must be upgraded, otherwise subsequent services cannot be used. ”

Stretching out his hand to the help desk, the square-faced young man replied, "We are waiting for the results of the negotiations between the leaders of the rights protection group." If there is no explanation, go to the consumer association, industry and commerce, and culture to complain to them. ”

"The Consumer Association of Industry and Commerce should not care about this matter," Zhou Lin shook his head, "It is possible to manage cultural law enforcement, if you report Tiger Company in real name for paid pornography and provide evidence." ”

Hearing him say this, everyone's faces changed. And even if the evidence is found and submitted to a professional appraiser for verification, they will not be happy, after all, everyone just wants the company to solve the problem and make some compensation, but no one wants to let go of this naughty fat tiger.

"What then?" asked the thin guy urgently.

"Speaking of which," Zhou Lin was about to say what he thought, but when he saw a new movement at the service desk, the two "negotiators" of two men and one woman got up and left, walked into the hall and waved at everyone.

When everyone gathered around, the group owner who looked like a big brother spoke and informed them of the negotiation with the store manager and even the official person in charge.

Although it has been repeated for a long time, the official attitude is extremely resolute, and there is only one sentence that comes and goes: "The update cannot be revoked, if you do not accept it, you can choose to return the goods with three guarantees or repurchase at a discount, and the company will deal with it according to the regulations to ensure that there is no prevarication and arrears." ”

According to the provisions of the Three Guarantees Law, if the product fails within 7 days of being sold, the consumer can choose to return the product at the original price according to the invoice price. After 7 days, you can only choose to exchange or repair. On the basis of the provisions of the Three Guarantees, Tiger Company has launched a discount repurchase channel, which repurchases the products that users do not want according to a certain depreciation algorithm, and puts them into the consignment platform in the form of official overturning machines after cleaning and refurbishment.

The problem is that these policies can only ensure that users will not lose too much benefit when they exit, but they cannot guarantee the actual use of the product. The Technical Supervision Bureau, which is theoretically in charge of this area, is powerless because there is no national standard in this field.

Then everyone was depressed, according to the provisions of the return of the goods can be stopped, but can not make people happy and satisfied, after all, other products are even more unbearable, at least three years behind the tiger, can not come up to fill the position.

Finally, someone still couldn't hold back and threw out the question: "Then what should we do now?

The group owner and group managers didn't speak, but another person suddenly exclaimed, ", all the horses are out of sale!"

"Huh?" everyone looked at the person who spoke in confusion, and the latter shook the phone in his hand when he saw this, "In the auction house, all the dolls that were shipped before yesterday have been removed from the shelves and stopped selling!"

At first, Zhou Lin was still a little stunned, and then he reacted that the doll needed to be turned off and deflated and folded when it was shipped, so naturally he couldn't receive last night's "dumb patch", and then it still retained its original function. This guy should have thought of this and wanted to return the new and buy the old curve to meet the standard. It's a pity that DigiTiger has already filled this "loophole", and all old versions of dolls have been stopped and banned from being put on the shelves, which is really frustrating. Of course, they can also trade privately through salted fish or forums, and pray that the guy on the other side has a conscience and does not play tricks when trading.

After digesting the bad news, someone asked in a low voice, crying: "What should I do then?"

The voice was shrill and thin, Zhou Lin turned his head to look at it, and found that it was indeed a girl, and her figure and appearance were not bad, and he couldn't help but lament in his heart that a person was not as good as anything.

Because of the powerful voice function and strong customizability, the dolls of the Tiger family are very attractive to some female users, as for whether they buy them back to be a large Barbie, life-size SD to play dress-up games, or chat with robots to express their feelings, or hold the rolling sheets to relieve loneliness, this is not something that outsiders can speculate.

At this moment, the voice of the fat group leader suddenly sounded in his ears, interrupting Zhou Lin's unwarranted reverie and partially answering his doubts.

I only heard him say: "Xin'er, this update doesn't affect daily conversations, why are you in a hurry?"

"No," the girl shook her head slightly, "a lot of the tone words are gone, and the dialogue and singing are much more jerky than before, so I can't listen to them at all!"

As she spoke, she actually cried and dropped a few golden beans.

Seeing everyone staring at the girl suspiciously, the group leader stood up and explained for her: "Xin'er and her friends have formed a robot dubbing club, and they usually record some radio dramas or something. ”

"And this kind of operation?" Zhou Lin's eyes widened, and he subconsciously asked: "Wouldn't it be good to just record the local dialect of the radio drama and directly use virtual voice people?" The underlying technology is the same, and the cost is much lower. ”

It was related to her professional field, but Xin'er didn't care about crying, raised her head and retorted: "Virtual voice people don't have a mouth shape, and they don't sound as natural as robots." ”

Hearing this, Zhou Lin couldn't help but pout, and secretly said that he was a profiteer who was fooled and lame.

DigiTiger's robotic voice technology originated from bees, and it has the same source as Bee Network's virtual voice human software "Phantom Voice", but it has embarked on a different development path.

The latter is mainly used for reading aloud, voice navigation, voice query, etc., so special attention is paid to the clarity and accuracy of pronunciation, execution efficiency, and packet size. In contrast, the details of tone, emotion, and accent are not paid much attention, as long as they are slightly better than the competition, after all, too many details will increase the development cost, and the final version of the software will be frighteningly large.

The former is different, from the very beginning of the road of "heart-to-heart" and emotional talk, has been using various artificial and technical methods to strengthen the detailed elements in the voice, in order to make it more powerful and infectious. In order to promote this unique selling point, DigiTiger's marketers borrowed the increasingly popular concept of ASMR (Spontaneous Perceptual Apex Response) and packaged the so-called "human hair voice" technology, claiming that after years of research, it finally solved the problem of electronic sound in robots.

As an IT media person, Zhou Lin knows very well that the so-called electric simulation faces they have made seem to be powerful, but they are only to assist in lip-syncing and help avoid the uncanny valley effect, and they are not as mysterious as they say. The reason why it sounds beautiful and emotional is due to the body's built-in voice system. As long as DigiTiger is willing, it will be completely extracted and made into a more emotional virtual voice person software.

Noticing the disdain on his face, the girl immediately turned from sadness to anger, and stared at Zhou Lin with a pair of big eyes, as if to say that you want to give me an explanation.

Zhou Lin didn't want to talk about technical details in front of strange girls, it was too easy to be issued a good person card. After thinking about it, he said: "This update is only for the Chinese bank models, and the overseas version will not be affected. If it can be brushed into the Hong Kong version and the American version, this problem will be solved. ”

"It's just theoretically feasible, but it's difficult to do in practice," the group leader shook his head helplessly, "The tiger baby is from the bee IRP (intelligent robot platform), and it hasn't been cracked yet!"

Zhou Lin smiled confidently: "It's just a flash, you don't have to crack it." ”

Seeing that he was so confident, the group leader waved to the side, "Xiaofei, borrow your girlfriend and let this gentleman show you how to flash the machine!"

Soon, a special storage box was pushed in front of Zhou Lin, which made him taste the sourness of causing trouble. In fact, he just got up in the morning to get a brush strategy, and he didn't have time to test it himself, and he didn't know the actual effect.

(End of chapter)