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Voice of the People: How iFlytek Came to Dominate the World of Speech Recognition

August 22, 2018 By CKGSB Case Center

For a company whose software speaks to more than half a billion people, iFlytek tends to keep its voice low. Founded by a group of researchers in 1999 and headquartered in the relatively sleepy eastern city of Hefei, the company was ranked as the 6th smartest firm in the world in 2017—just one place below Google—by MIT Technology Review. Over the past two decades, iFlytek developed software that can understand several Chinese dialects fluently—a feat Apple’s Siri still struggles with. It can transcribe it into text, and translate it into English instantly. In this interview, Jiang Tao, Senior Vice President of iFlytek, who joined in the firm at the very beginning, explains how the company reached this point and how it keeps hold of its world-class researchers.

Filed Under: All Articles, C-Suite Interview, China, Entrepreneurship, Q&A, Technology, The Chinapreneurs Tagged With: AI, Speech recognition, Technology, Voice recognition

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