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Smart Sound project team manager Du Xinye moved quickly. Wang Yan had said they should spend a couple of days debugging before pushing the upgrade, but in reality, Du Xinye led his team and pulled in the Easy Translate staff for overtime work. They finished debugging that very day and began pushing the upgrade at noon the next day.

They did not actually need to handle the hype themselves. People nowadays held up their phones and filmed everything all day long; they would not miss out on something this fresh. Besides, over six hundred thousand first-generation Smart Sound units had been sold. That meant more than six hundred thousand households. Even assuming just two people per household, that was 1.2 million people.

A user base of that scale was enough to ensure that there were users everywhere across China. It also guaranteed that the moment Smart Sound appeared, someone would read the upgrade description and conduct targeted tests.

Smart Sound's users included a group of people who chased technology and pursued new lifestyles. As a product with the most disruptive potential in recent years, one that stood at the peak in both appearance and user experience, it was certain that these people would release test videos at the first opportunity.

All Du Xinye had to do as manager was apply for some funds, give his staff half a day off, and have them lie in bed at home scrolling through short videos. Whoever made a good video got money for promotion. On top of that, they would spend money buying promotional articles and have business news outlets report on it. Combined, that was enough to get the hype going.

Of course, there were also the elderly users this update primarily targeted. If no one made videos in that regard, they