iFLYTEK is using multilingual technology to build a bridge of communication for its global partners to mark the 24th annual International Mother Language Day celebration. iFLYTEK takes the opportunity to reflect on its accomplishments in strengthening international bonds by creating advanced technologies to bridge language barriers and active engagement on the world stage.

During the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympics—the most-watched Winter Games ever—the holistic integration of AI-based translation into the Games enabled the first truly "barrier-free" Olympics for viewers, journalists, and athletes. As the Official Automated Translation Software Exclusive Supplier of the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Beijing 2022, iFLYTEK provided various technologies, including multilingual speech recognition and synthesis, multilingual machine translation, and intelligent interaction.

iFLYTEK's powerful multilingual technology allows for translation accuracy between Chinese and major foreign languages, including English, Russian, French, Spanish, and Japanese, to exceed 90%, and the average response time for each sentence in voice translation is less than 1.5 seconds. These capabilities aided multilingual speech services so that audiences and tourists from all over the world could tune into the games and those with hearing disabilities could engage like never before.

iFLYTEK has also sought to foster increased attention and collaboration on speech technologies through its annual iFLYTEK 1024 Global Developer Festival, which has brought developers from various sectors together to advance a common vision for further development. One of them is Shenzhen Timekettle Technologies Co., Ltd.

Timekettle, the winner of the Intelligent Manufacturing Award of the "Excellent Developer Team of the 2020 iFLYTEK 1024 Developer Festival", is a start-up committed to helping users around the world with language communication and connectivity through the integration of software, hardware, and innovation.

To provide stable and accurate voice translation services, Timekettle has drawn up a comprehensive blueprint for AI-based voice and translation technologies and conducted in-depth cooperation with AI companies such as iFLYTEK. Meanwhile, it has independently developed and built the Timekettle global voice translation platform. As a key partner of Timekettle, iFLYTEK offers the company high-quality Chinese speech recognition and offline translation services and support.

iFLYTEK's ability to serve as an effective partner stems from its prolonged investments in the research and innovation of data, algorithms, and platforms.

During the 2021 OpenASR Challenge, an international competition for automatic speech recognition of multiple low-resource languages, iFLYTEK participated in and won 15 language-specific and 7 language-unspecific tracks. During the 16th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation in 2022, also known as SemEval 2022, iFLYTEK ranked first in three major tracks. Together, these events highlight the breakthroughs in multilingual understanding and cross-language transfer, as well as iFLYTEK's technical strength in multilingual voice-to-language.

After years of technical advancement, the iFLYTEK Research Institute has finished the R&D of a complete multilingual voice and language system, including speech synthesis in 60 languages, speech recognition in 69 languages, image, and text recognition in 56 languages, and machine translation between Chinese and 168 languages.

iFLYTEK has also been working on solutions for consumer industry needs including improved home appliances, mobile phones, and in-vehicle interaction to help enterprises tap into the global market. Overseas sites have been established in countries like Singapore, India, and Japan, which provide easy-to-use voice and language services such as speech recognition, speech synthesis, machine translation, and image and text recognition for developers and corporate users at home and abroad.

In the future, iFLYTEK will further delve into multilingual technology, and bring China and the world closer together step by step.