Chapter 80: El Haisen: Is this your attitude when asking for help?

Chapter 80: El Haisen: Is this your attitude when asking for help?

Hearing Harold's words, Kavi subconsciously reached out to protect his beautiful blond hair, and looked at Harold vigilantly: "What bad idea are you planning again?"

Harold smiled maliciously: "How could that be? I just wanted to use the experience of my hometown seniors to provide some creative ideas to Senior Kawi."

Harold raised his hand, and "The Complete Collection of Xumi Ancient Characters" floated from behind him onto the table and flipped open to page 5,079.

Harold: "This is the 'sacrificial script (borrowed from the name of ancient Egyptian script)', one of the four most commonly used scripts by desert tribes. It is also the only ideographic script among the four commonly used scripts in the desert. There are more than 700 commonly used characters."

Compared with the commonly used characters in Chinese, this number is relatively small, Harold thought. The two thousand commonly used characters in Chinese can only cover 98% of written materials, and the sacrificial characters with more than 700 characters are almost enough.

But unlike Chinese characters, this type of writing has no radicals or components, and the more than 700 characters have almost no identical parts. Therefore, it is impossible to refer to Mr. Lin’s design and manufacture a typewriter based on the three-level drum structure and the up-and-down type word checking method.

Moreover, the typewriter invented by Mr. Lin is very expensive and not suitable for mass production. The Flower Growers currently only have one prototype. But if Kavi wants to design some typewriters for the people of Liyue in the future, Mr. Lin’s invention is a very good reference. After all, it took him more than ten years and cost $120,000 to make it.

Hearing that there were more than 700 commonly used characters, Kawi slowly put down his hand, but he still looked alert: “I thought about it carefully and have some ideas.

The simplest method is to further simplify the 700 commonly used characters, preferably to 300 or 400, and try to reduce the number of typewriter keys on the basis of covering as much written material as possible. The remaining characters will be left blank, and these characters will be added using movable type printing after all the printing work is completed. "

Well... this was also the prototype of the Chinese typewriter that our ancestors originally thought of, but it turned out that the typewriter made using this method was not much more efficient than movable type printing.

"But three or four hundred keys are still too many, senior. If you ask me to use this keyboard, I will get a headache in less than five minutes," said Harold.

"If senior can make it run more smoothly... I mean, it would be best if after I type a word, the next word I want to type would appear at my fingertips. Or, it would be even better if it could type the word I want to type directly according to the sound of my voice." Haroldt threw out a few ideas.

The former is the Eighteen-plate Character Picking Method, and the latter is the voice input commonly used on mobile phones in the 21st century. It can only be realized by computer algorithms. It should be impossible to apply it to the mechanical typewriters on the continent of Teyvat.

"These are all feasible! How come your brain always works so fast, Harold?!" Kavi exclaimed in surprise.

Harold: ...

Huh? Is this actually possible? Voice input is also possible?

How could the slap in the face come so quickly?

"Senior, I'm just talking casually, don't take it seriously." Harold said.

"Why don't you take it seriously? I think this idea is great!" Kavi was dissatisfied with Harold's words, "Look, the first method you mentioned only requires knowing some of the most commonly used words and phrases in the sacrificial body, and then connecting the related keys in series, and then arranging the associated words according to the frequency of use.

The second method is a little more complicated. We can refer to the principle of the phonograph. Sound is produced by vibration. Then we can restore the sound according to the difference in vibration and apply this principle to the typewriter...

We can pre-set the association between vibration frequency and keystrokes, and then design a device that can be worn on the mouth to amplify sound, so that when we say a word, the corresponding key will fall.

——Hey, wait, something seems wrong. Some words have the same pronunciation. Why not set it so that when you say a word, the corresponding button lights up? This way, it will be easy to find the corresponding word among the more than 700 buttons!"

It sounds very scientific, what's going on?

Harold rubbed his temples. No, if it were really that simple, then the ancestors of the flower-growing family would not have failed to think of it.

Haroldt thought for a moment and raised a few questions: "But that requires very standard pronunciation. If the person speaking has an accent, will the input error rate be very high? And how are you going to associate the vibration frequency with the keystrokes?"

Are they using different materials to make each key? That would require more than 700 materials for more than 700 keys, and it would be hard to find the right materials.

"That's why we need to use a sound amplification device to increase the fault tolerance rate. As for how to connect them...of course it's by using elemental power." Kavi said with certainty.

Harold: ...

When in doubt, elemental mechanics, right?

reasonable.

Kavi said happily: "But this is only feasible in theory. It will definitely take many experiments to make it a reality. I can try to modify Xumi's typewriter first.

There are only twenty letters, ten numbers and a few punctuation marks on it, so it shouldn't be difficult to implement voice input. If I can succeed, the work efficiency of Xumi scholars will increase dozens of times.

It’s just that I don’t have the divine eye, otherwise I can say I would definitely succeed.”

Speaking of this, Kawi couldn't help feeling disappointed. Unable to personally sense the elemental force, even if he had already constructed a grand plan in his mind, he didn't dare to assert that he could definitely make a voice input typewriter.

Harold: "Then let's put aside the voice input typewriter first. I think the first type of typewriter you mentioned is very interesting. When you enter a word, it will automatically predict the next word to be entered. This is called 'predictive input', right?"

"Well, predictive input, that's a really good name." Kavi praised, "I already understand the principle, but there is still a big problem to solve in order to make it work..."

Kavi suddenly shut up, with a subtle expression on his face.

Harold guessed the reason and immediately asked, "Senior, you don't master this language, right?"

To make a typewriter using a method similar to computer "predictive input", of course one needs to know which words in the language are used more frequently and which words can be connected together. This is simply a fantasy for people who have never learned the language.

Harold has memorized the entire "Sumeru Ancient Characters", but that doesn't mean he can complete the task.

Hmm? Is this hard to understand?

To give a simple example, you have studied English for six years and memorized so many words, but can you communicate with foreign friends smoothly?

So the only solution to this problem on the scene is——

Harold and Kavi's eyes were focused on Elhaisen at the same time.

The corners of Elhaisen's mouth rose two pixels.

Kavi couldn't stand Alhaisen's arrogance: "Well, forget it. Instead of counting on him for help, it's better to count on the sage to allocate funds for our project. In that case, I'd rather believe that the House of Religion will close tomorrow."

"Is this your attitude when asking for help?" Elhaisen closed the book and looked over. "If you want to ask for help, at least show your sincerity."

"You talk as if you will definitely help if I ask you." Kavi turned his head away with disdain.

El Haisen: "You said it yourself, 'help'. Is it my duty to help you?"

Kavi frowned in confusion. After a long pause, he said in a low voice, "Hey, Alhaisen, we need your help. As long as you are willing to help us, I will buy you milk tea for a month."

El Haisen: "What? Did you just say something?"

A few small crosses appeared on Kawi's forehead. He took a deep breath and shouted loudly: "El Haisen, please help me! I will buy you milk tea after the task is completed!!"

"Well, I hope your decision won't make you go down the path of becoming a core member of the fan club." Elhaisen said and looked at Haroldt, "What about you?"

"Me too?" Harold pointed at himself.

Elhaisen: "Does this exclude yourself? Aren't you one of the initiators of the research?"

Harold twitched his lips.

Then, he leaned over to Elhaisen's side, pulled Elhaisen's hand to his thigh, and said seriously: "Please, Lord Elhaisen, as long as you are willing to help us, you can do whatever you want."

Alhaysen:...

"Pfft hahahahaha——"

Kavi almost died of laughter.

"Tsk." Elhaisen froze for a rare moment, then immediately pulled his hand back and regained his poker face, "I really want to know where your bottom line is."

"It can be lower. Do you want to hear something else?" Haroldt felt that he had turned the game around, and his tone was quite happy.

"Alhaisen, you have come to this day!" Kavi was extremely excited, as if he had a share in Haroldt's achievements.

El Haisen said faintly: "Have you forgotten that you are asking me for help? Sure, half a year of freeze-dried food and milk tea, that's my condition."

"You are just taking advantage of the situation!" Kavi said angrily.

"Why else would I waste my precious rest time doing that? If you don't want to, you can spend a year studying the grammatical structure of that language.

I think with your wisdom, as long as you are willing to spend time, you will be able to make what you want sooner or later even without my help." El Haisen said.

Kavi: “You!”

"Senior Elhaisen, if I hire you for ten years, can I also ask you to do the work of writing textbooks at the same time?" Harold asked suddenly.