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iFlytek and education department overview
Frank Wang, Representative of Asia Pacific Region
Alan Feng, Business Development Manager
• Speech synthesis: can convert text to speech, equivalent to installing artificial mouth for computer.
• Speech recognition: can convert speech to text and recognize speech content, speaker, language and other information ， equivalent to installing artificial ear for computer.
• Speech evaluation: can recognize
speech content and give feedback to
the speaker how he/she performs.
Intelligent speech technology
• The intelligent speech technology enable all kinds of machines " listen and speak" like human being, including speech synthesis, speech recognition, etc.
International IT giants pay close
attention to speech technology
Apple Company issued iPhone4S in October, 2011.
Siri becomes the biggest selling point.
iFLYTEK Overview
USTC iFLYTEK is a national key software enterprise and the
largest stock list speech technology company in Asia pacific
regions with over 3000 employee.
Established in 1999, iFLYTEK has made great efforts to promote the
speech applications in various industries such as household electrical
appliances, mobile phones, vehicle, toys, wearing equipment,
TV , intelligent building system and number of other fields as well as
some important events such as Olympic Games, Shanghai Expo
2010.
iFLYTEK has occupied more than 80% market share in Chinese speech
market.
Government-Grants
• Year 2000 - Industrialization Base for the Results of the National High-tech
R&D Program of China by Ministry of science and technology
• Year 2005- National High-tech Industrialization Demonstration Project by
National development and Reform Commission
Speech Hi -Tech National
Team
State Speech Technology Industrial Base has been located in Hefei by the
Ministry of Technology of CHINA.
Building Global Speech industrial
base
• Year 2003 & 2011 Twice awarded National Science and
technology progress award
• Year 2005 & 2011 Twice awarded Significant
technological invention of information industry award
Leading Core Technology
National Science and technology progress award Significant technological invention
of information industry award
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Games of year 1984 and 1992 . At the 1984 Los Angeles
Olympic Games, Because of the Soviet Union and Eastern
European countries ... ...
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Rating data
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Progress in speech synthesis
technology
Naturalness is the most critical indicator for speech synthesis system
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A C I F B G D H J K E
BC2013
iFLYTEK’2006
Other participants
Microsoft, IBM, MIT, CMU in the United States
Edinburgh in England, NITech, ATR, etc. in Japan
synthesis result
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A K P O J M C B H N E D Q L F G
BC2007
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J K V C L O E H T R
BC2008
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M T V B R G N L Q
BC2010
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G E H K L B C M D F J I
BC2011
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100%
S I H C D E R P M
BC2009
He refused to identify governments he suspected,
but German press reports said investigations
were focusing on North Korea and Pakistan.
iFLYTEK’ 2007
iFLYTEK’2008
iFLYTEK’2009
iFLYTEK’2010
iFLYTEK’2011
iFLYTEK’2012
Blizzard Challenge championship 9 years in a
row
iFLYTEK’2013
iFLYTEK’2014
Contestants include: CMU, MIT, Stanford, University of Science and
Technology of China, Institute of Automation and Institute of Acoustics,
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Motorola research center, IBM Research
Laboratory and other 50 famous speech research institutions at home
and abroad
• National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is the
world largest speaker recognition evaluation with more than
50 famous speech research institutions.
• The contest(NIST speaker recognition evaluation) began in 1996
and is held every two year. It is the internationally most
influential speaker recognition evaluation with the biggest scale.
• iFLYTEK’s system ranked at international leading position for
continual there contests in 2008 and 2012.
Globally leading speaker recognition
technology
Testing time 3 major core test indices Ranking in test system
Min DCF EER DCF Min DCF EER DCF
2008 0.107 2.625 0.187 1 1 3
2010 0.33 5.872 0.405 2 2 2
Globally leading language
recognition technology
Championship of NIST contest for the most confused dialect pairs in 2009 /
2011/2012
Evaluating time: 2011 Evaluating object: language recognition technology
Evaluating organization: NIST
Contestants: Lincoln Laboratory in MIT （MITLL）, French science research center ( LIMSI)，Brno University of Technology of Czech ( BUT), Tsinghua University, etc.
It won 7 champions in language recognition test of 9 highly confused dialect pairs in 2011
Ranking Code name Representative agency
Ranking of test results on different dialect pairs
P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9
1 iFLY IFLYTEK 1 1 1 3 1 1 2 1 1
2 MITLL Lincoln laboratory, MIT 2 3 2 2 2 2 1 2 3
3 BLZ
Brno University of Technology of Czech &
French science research center
3 3 3 1 3 3 3 3 2
Globally leading language recognition
technology
iFlytek Voice Cloud Strategy
On Aug 20, 2014, the 3.0 version of "voice cloud" has been
released.
On March 22, 2012, the first generation of "voice cloud" Release & Speech
Developers Conference was held at the Beijing National Convention Center
with the theme of "voice lit life", more than 2,200 developers attended the
event.
Explosive growth of speech cloud
users
Speech cloud users 370 million
More than 8000 Development partner
Request per day 10 million times
370 million
1 million
January - June, 2011 July 2011- May 2012
10million
June 2012- March
2013
遍及各行业的顶尖合作伙伴
iFLYTEK Speech
Cloud
3100 Top industries market leaders
Speec
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input
Micro
Blog Messa
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Searc
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Virtua
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imag
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Recrea
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Scheduli
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manag
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Life
servic
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Readi
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Map
naviga
tion
The number of Apps has developed 20,000!
Increasing popularity of speech cloud
获得2012年“最佳移动互联网创新应用奖” 2012中国互联网大会 “创新典范””
Speech cloud applications
Typical Speech interaction
iFLYTEK Voice Touch iFLYTEK Input Lingxi
Voice Assistant
Speech command/ Speech assistant/ Speech dictation/ Speech
chat
”
Safety speech cloud solution
Speech cloud awards
Professional mobile internet developer
China Computer Conference annual
awards
• For five consecutive years, iFLYTEK has been reported as listed company's
annual performance evaluation excellence by Stock information disclosure
• Top list : SSE szse SME index, szse 100 units index, CCTV business 50
index
• innovation and potential ability has been recognized by capital market and
iFLYTEK has become the largest listed company in Asia-Pacific region
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Market Value（100M）
-38% 510%
iFLYTEK market value worth more than 20 billion Yuan and it got highest valuation in
Shanghai and Shenzhen share market as a software company.
IFLYTEK is appraised as the most potential listed company in China by Forbes.
Capital market's outstanding performance
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6 out of 7 members of standing committee of Political Bureau, the CPC
central committee, have visited the company.
Close attention drawn by China’s Top
decision board
Abstract
Comprehensive system of educational
products
Voice Cloud
– Standard reading of
teaching content
• E-textbook
• Sound materials
– Interactive teaching based on
speech evaluation
• Speech Eval (CHN & ENG)
• Reading emulation
• Situational dialogue
• Poems reciting
– Teaching resources sync ;
– Making & sharing of interactive teaching
materials;
– Statistics & supervision of teaching apparatus
application
Changyan® Multi-media Teaching Solution
26 provinces
1000 universities
30,0000 teachers
50 million students
National key product
issued by the Ministry of
science and technology,
Ministry of Commerce
and State administration
of quality inspection and
the Ministry of
environmental protection
Awarded the 16th
(2012) China
International Software
Exhibition Golden Prize
School-teaching Product - Nationwide
Coverage
Voice Cloud
Test platform
Comprehensive system of educational
products
The system has been used in PSC and MHK.
In Nov 2009, appraised as “special contribution”by the National
Language Committee of MOE.
Our system has been appraised as the unique auto-system for testing
Putonghua and applied all over 31 provinces. By Nov 2012, the
examinees are over 15 millions.
Till Nov 2012,the cumulative tested
number has more than 15 million people
Products for exams– Mandarin
Chinese coverage
Relevance and Average error
score of oral English evaluation
Scientific and technological achievements identification results which was
provided by Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Agency and
Guangdong Provincial Department of Education
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Nationwide Examination products application
Currently we are the only intelligent technology providers
which pass the national evaluation and our technology has
been applied in a very large scale, supporting the
examination business in 31 provinces, more than 5,000 test
centers and now the accumulated testers has reached to
25 million people. Currently the Mandarin/English oral
testers are over 6 million people every year.
项目名称 年考试人数 应用范围
汉语
国家普通话水平测试 400万 全国31个省市
中国少数民族汉语水平等级考试 30万 全国近10个少数民族区域
实用汉语水平等级考试（外籍人士） 1万 上海
音乐 全国音乐等级考试 1万 北京、福建、湖南等省市
英语
高校英语口语考试 1万 中科大、南大等高校
广东高考 70万 广东全省
广西高考 5.6万 广西自治区
贵州高考 4.7万 贵州全省
湖北高考 6.2万 湖北全省
云南高考 18万 云南全省
天津高考 1万 天津全市
上海高中学考 5万 上海全市
北京高考试点 0.5万 北京市试点
重庆高职单招 4万 重庆全市
北语单招 0.1万 北京语言大学
江苏中考 69万 江苏全省
温州中考 7万 温州全市
重庆中考 6万 重庆6个区县
合肥中考 2.6万 合肥7个区县
三明中考 0.5万 三明市梅列区
广东中考 30万 广州、深圳、东莞、中山、江门等市
西宁中考 2015年开考 西宁全市
沈阳中考 2015年开考 沈阳全市 淄博中考 2015年开考 淄博全市
长沙中考 2015年开考 长沙全市
iFlytek Online Marking System
Data scanning
system OMR
automatic
scoring
Online marking
system
Data Monitoring
System
Front and back side
simultaneously scan
Up to:
A3 answer sheet 3 /
sec.
A4 answer sheet 5 /
sec.
OMR recognition
technology
Automatic recognition
result
Objective questions data
files generation
Consistency error
control
Reduce the scoring
error through random
checking
Flexible score board set
Most simplified marking
operation
Key data encryption
transmission
The use of digital
certificates
Full Process
Monitoring
Marking quality
monitoring
Anomalies alarm
system
Basis: computer network and image processing technology
Professional scanning: professional scanning reading devices has been
used to do scanning and processing to various types of examination scripts and
document,
Marking Mode: Automatically marking on objective questions and online
marking on subjective questions for teachers.
Comprehensive system of educational
products
Voice Cloud
Personal learning portal
iMTL（Mother tone language）is Chinese-language teaching and
learning portal project launched by Singapore Ministry of education
iMTL embedded iflytek leading intelligent voice technologies and it
provides standards of Chinese text reading for teachers and students.
It provides real-time metrics, error checking and correction of texts read
function for students.
Intelligent voice technology including:
– Text synchronization with standard
reading
– Reading results with Real-time
feedback
– Chinese pronunciation with Intelligent
error correction
– Based on dimensions such as accuracy,
fluency and tone, To build
comprehensive pronunciation
guidance, and correction system
Speech technology aroused the enthusiasm of the students
with remarkable results!
Singapore iMTL Learning Portal
July 2011, 41 primary and secondary
schools throughout the country as pilot
schools, more than 2000 students and 135
teachers to participate in
In 2013, 363 schools has been reached,
94% of the schools has been cover in the
project. Daily use has been cover 4,000
teachers and 100,000 students
Teachers strongly agreed/agreed that %
Participates from pilot schools 96.4
I can help student to learning new language with better solution 92.7 I can offer better student self-learning opportunity 94.6
I can use more formative assessment method in the classroom 96.4
I can motivate my students to have a better communication with people 92.7
IMTL portal's user interface is customer friendly 85.5
Feedback for iMTL
Cooperation with Confucius Institute(Hanban)
• By the end of 2013, there are 440 Confucius Institutes and 646 Confucius
Classrooms established, located in 120 countries / regions with 1 million registered students.
• Mandarin Chinese examination (HSK, YCT and BCT) now has 875 test
centers in 114 countries,in the year of 2013, there were estimated 370,000 people who took the test.
Partnership with Online Confucius institute (www.chinesecio.com )
and its future mobile App Co-development
iFlytek Chinese Speech Technology (TTS, recognition and Speech
evaluation) into Online Confucius institute, which greatly enriches the
teaching resources.
This future mobile app ,which in now under development, will be used in all
Confucius institute as an effective and interactive way of learning mandarin
Chinese.
Mandarin Chinese Examination(HSK, YCT and BCT) cooperation
exploration
Studying the possibility of using iFlytek intelligent speech technology to do
automatic scoring on current exams.
Future iBT test cooperation
Cooperation in details
Thanks
