Ali Laiwang 4.3 releases multiple innovative features to compete with WeChat

199IT News: Knocking on the door, managing private groups, converting voice messages to text, converting voice input to text and sending out, and self-destructing pictures are the latest features released in Ali Laiwang version 4.3. The Ali Laiwang team said that Laiwang is focusing on stranger social networking and hopes to attract users with more innovative features.

According to reports, in LaiWang version 4.3, users can enable the "voice input" function by simply clicking the "+" button in the chat window. After clicking the "voice input" button, the voice-to-text input window will open. At the same time, when posting personal updates in LaiWang version 4.3, the voice-to-text input window can also be seen.

By using this function, users can not only convert voice messages into text and send them, but also convert voice messages sent by friends into text messages. At the same time, this version also supports converting voice into text input when posting personal dynamic information.

Lei Shi, a voice algorithm expert at Alibaba's wireless business unit, said that Alibaba has all independent intellectual property rights for the voice input technology used on Laiwang. In the future, Laiwang will continue to improve this service and apply it to more products and application scenarios, such as dialect search services.

As for the knock-on function, users can set three questions to strangers, and only those who answer the questions correctly can add them as friends. At present, some users on Laiwang have set up special topics composed of knock-on questions and recommended them to other Laiwang users, including the best ones selected from millions of Taobao girls.

Zou Mengrui, the person in charge of Laiwang, said that knocking on the door is intended to make it easier for users to find friends with similar interests when trying to expand their circle of friends, and it is safer and more efficient. "Mobile phones allow us to easily reach a wider range of people. The key to expanding the circle of friends is not efficiency, but similar interests and safety. Therefore, there should be a mechanism that allows users to screen a large number of strangers. On the one hand, it is to see if the strangers are suitable, so as to avoid adding a lot of people but not talking to each other and then having to clear them out; on the other hand, it also raises the threshold for adding friends and is more secure. The way we found is knocking on the door."

The newly released LaiWang 4.3 version has upgraded the grouping function. Users can set whether to allow non-group members to view or apply to join. The degree of openness is determined by the user. For the management of the group, the group owner can also set group announcements, pin posts, kick people out and delete posts.

In LaiWang 4.3, grouping is classified under the broader concept of "exploration". "Exploration" includes three parts: friend dynamics, group dynamics and knocking. It uses acquaintances, specific topics, and meeting new friends to segment user needs. According to the figures released by LaiWang at the end of November, LaiWang users have established more than 100,000 groups, of which more than 1,500 have more than 1,000 members. The official groups of Zhou Bichang, Wang Feng, Bai Jugang and others all have more than 200,000 members.

According to other news, the chat group function of 500 people has also been upgraded to add management functions. Users can edit and publish group announcements, and can also decide whether to allow all group members to invite friends to join.

It is understood that LaiWang 4.3 Android version has been launched in major application markets, and the iOS version has been submitted to Apple APP STORE for review and will be updated online soon.

by:Mr ding