In the recently concluded Double 11 shopping festival, a domestic AI hardware product quietly topped multiple lists, becoming the "new efficiency favorite" for professionals - DingTalk A1, the first AI hardware product from DingTalk, not only won the top spot on the Taobao new voice recorder list continuously, with over 600,000 followers, but also ranked first in sales and transaction volume in the 3C digital electronics category on Douyin, strongly breaking the industry stereotype that "AI office equipment equals high price".
This smart voice recorder, released on August 25 this year, has broken through the price barriers of similar products, which usually cost over a thousand yuan, with an affordable pricing starting at 499 yuan (499 yuan for the youth version, 799 yuan for the flagship version), pushing AI office hardware towards popularization. Its core competitiveness lies in deep integration of software and hardware: it is equipped with a low-power AI audio chip and a large-capacity battery, supporting up to 15 hours of continuous recording; on the software side, it relies on DingTalk's self-developed large model and AI transcription engine to achieve real-time voice transcription, multilingual translation, intelligent meeting summaries, and key topic extraction, and seamlessly connects with DingTalk's schedule, to-do list, and knowledge base, automatically converting meeting content into actionable tasks.
In practical applications, DingTalk A1 has become a "digital assistant" for various professional groups. A lawyer in Zhejiang reported that in the past, organizing client interview records took several hours, but now with AI automatically extracting key points, a structured report can be generated in just 5 minutes; sales, administrative, and teaching groups have also used it for customer communication review, classroom recording, and cross-department collaboration. More importantly, the product comes with more than 200 scenario-based analysis templates, covering vertical needs such as "customer objection handling," "project review," and "legal inquiries," making AI truly "understand the business."
The enterprise market has also shown strong enthusiasm. Several large enterprises have already purchased the DingTalk A1 enterprise version in bulk, using it for management listening to meetings and sales visits, turning voice data into organizational knowledge assets. A company executive said, "Now, senior executives don't need to be on-site, but can accurately grasp the details of sales conversations and customers' true feedback through AI-generated structured summaries."
To lower the usage threshold, DingTalk also provides free voice-to-text quotas for individual users, further expanding the accessibility of AI office solutions. AIbase believes that the success of DingTalk A1 is not only about hardware specifications, but more importantly, its deep integration of large model capabilities into real workflows, achieving a closed-loop experience of "clear recording, understanding, and practical use." When AI is no longer just for show, but really helps people save several hours, it has truly entered the daily lives of professionals. This wave of AI office popularization initiated by DingTalk may have just begun.
