At 618 this year, iFLYTEK’s smart voice recorder, known as “a must-have artifact for office and conferences,” has been the sales champion of the two-platform voice recorder category on JD.com and Tmall for three consecutive years. Among them, iFLYTEK’s smart voice recorder SR502 won the title of single product sales in the voice recorder category on Tmall’s platform on June 18. The product, iFLYTEK’s wrist-type voice recorder R1, has also won the double champion of Jingdong bracelet-type voice recorder in single product sales due to its advantages in expanding multi-scene applications.

When talking about voice recorders in the past, many people’s first impression is that they have a single function and do not meet the needs of contemporary people. As a result, voice recorders have always survived among their existing consumers. After the birth of the smart phone, the traditional voice recorder lost some of its users.

But in fact, it is understood that 81% of voice recorder users need transcripts, and the groups that use voice recorders are mainly white-collar workers, journalists and students. Based on the unsolved pain points of these traditional recording scenarios, iFLYTEK’s smart voice recorder was created as needed.

IFLYTEK has widely used AI voice technology in smart recording pens, so that consumers can quickly obtain the corresponding text after the recording is completed. And to meet the needs of consumers in different sub-scenarios, so that the traditional voice recorder exudes a new light because of AI.

For example, iFLYTEK’s SR series smart recorders are equipped with AI algorithms with independent intellectual property rights to reduce noise. They can use adaptive filtering to eliminate noise for sound source localization. The pickup distance can reach 15 meters and the human voice is clearer. At the same time, it also introduced seven scene modes such as speech, conference, interview, standard, memo, music, and power saving to meet the needs of different occasions. The functionally very practical iFLYTEK smart voice recorder has its own key content marking function. As long as you directly touch the screen during recording, you can add tags to key content. After the recording is over, you can search for keywords to view the highlighted key content, and it also supports simultaneous sharing and editing on multiple platforms such as mobile phones and PCs. Among them, in the function of transcribing, iFLYTEK’s smart voice recorder is more “precise”. With the support of a series of high-precision technologies such as microphone array smart pickup technology, smart noise reduction technology, voice transcription technology, offline transcription technology, Chinese and English translation technology, iFLYTEK’s smart voice recorder is accurate in a variety of work scenarios The sound pickup, even if it is 15 meters away from the target, or in a noisy environment, it can intelligently filter out the noise, and only retain the clear original sound of the target; after the recording is over, the manuscript is quickly transferred and saved, Intelligent upload to the cloud, and can also be transcribed and written operations without the network. The current smart voice recorder market is undoubtedly a red sea. In order to maintain its own technological competitiveness, HKUST Xunfei has set up technical indicators internally to achieve a 30% year-on-year technological growth. In the past ten years, R&D investment accounted for 20% of operating income. about. Accompanyingly, the situation of domestic smart recorder players has gradually become clear, and iFlytek is undoubtedly the leader. Based on the annual technological “involution” and product innovation, iFlytek will continue to innovate product forms and technology applications to empower industry upgrades

At 618 this year, iFLYTEK’s smart voice recorder, known as “a must-have artifact for office and conferences,” has been the sales champion of the two-platform voice recorder category on JD.com and Tmall for three consecutive years. Among them, iFLYTEK’s smart voice recorder SR502 won the title of single product sales in the voice recorder category on Tmall’s platform on June 18. The product, iFLYTEK’s wrist-type voice recorder R1, has also won the double champion of Jingdong bracelet-type voice recorder in single product sales due to its advantages in expanding multi-scene applications.

When talking about voice recorders in the past, many people’s first impression is that they have a single function and do not meet the needs of contemporary people. As a result, voice recorders have always survived among their existing consumers. After the birth of the smart phone, the traditional voice recorder lost some of its users.

But in fact, it is understood that 81% of voice recorder users need transcripts, and the groups that use voice recorders are mainly white-collar workers, journalists and students. Based on the unsolved pain points of these traditional recording scenarios, iFLYTEK’s smart voice recorder was created as needed.

IFLYTEK has widely used AI voice technology in smart recording pens, so that consumers can quickly obtain the corresponding text after the recording is completed. And to meet the needs of consumers in different sub-scenarios, so that the traditional voice recorder exudes a new light because of AI.

For example, iFLYTEK’s SR series smart recorders are equipped with AI algorithms with independent intellectual property rights to reduce noise. They can use adaptive filtering to eliminate noise for sound source localization. The pickup distance can reach 15 meters and the human voice is clearer. At the same time, it also introduced seven scene modes such as speech, conference, interview, standard, memo, music, and power saving to meet the needs of different occasions. The functionally very practical iFLYTEK smart voice recorder has its own key content marking function. As long as you directly touch the screen during recording, you can add tags to key content. After the recording is over, you can search for keywords to view the highlighted key content, and it also supports simultaneous sharing and editing on multiple platforms such as mobile phones and PCs. Among them, in the function of transcribing, iFLYTEK’s smart voice recorder is more “precise”. With the support of a series of high-precision technologies such as microphone array smart pickup technology, smart noise reduction technology, voice transcription technology, offline transcription technology, Chinese and English translation technology, iFLYTEK’s smart voice recorder is accurate in a variety of work scenarios The sound pickup, even if it is 15 meters away from the target, or in a noisy environment, it can intelligently filter out the noise, and only retain the clear original sound of the target; after the recording is over, the manuscript is quickly transferred and saved, Intelligent upload to the cloud, and can also be transcribed and written operations without the network. The current smart voice recorder market is undoubtedly a red sea. In order to maintain its own technological competitiveness, HKUST Xunfei has set up technical indicators internally to achieve a 30% year-on-year technological growth. In the past ten years, R&D investment accounted for 20% of operating income. about. Accompanyingly, the situation of domestic smart recorder players has gradually become clear, and iFlytek is undoubtedly the leader. Based on the annual technological “involution” and product innovation, iFlytek will continue to innovate product forms and technology applications to empower industry upgrades

On June 10, at the 2021 Global Smart Logistics Summit, Alibaba CTO and Cainiao Chief Technology Officer Cheng Li announced that Cainiao will invest 1,000 logistics unmanned vehicles into campuses and communities, and revealed that Alibaba Dharma Academy and Cainiao has initiated the definition and research of open road unmanned logistics trucks.

Under the background of building vehicles in the whole industry, starting from the familiar logistics scene, and then moving to the unmanned truck freight track, it is undoubtedly the embodiment of Ali’s wisdom. Moreover, Ali’s car-building ambitions are not limited to “third-party” empowerment, especially in passenger cars. Ali not only invested in Xiaopeng, but also jointly established Zhiji Auto with SAIC and Pudong New Area, placing heavy bets. The reason may be due to self-confidence in its own autonomous driving technology.

In fact, there have been companies involved in the field of unmanned trucks, whether it is domestic Tucson Future, Pony Smart, Mainline Technology, or foreign Mercedes-Benz, Google, and even Tesla. With Ali’s entry, this field will become more active. At least, with the support of Cainiao’s data and the accumulation of autonomous driving technology of Dharma Academy, Ali should also make achievements in the field of unmanned trucks.

Didi goes public in the U.S., IPO is imminent

On June 10, U.S. Eastern Time, Didi Chuxing formally submitted an IPO application to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). It plans to list on the Nasdaq Stock Market or the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “DIDI”. The amount is tentatively set at 100 million U.S. dollars.

It is understood that Didi’s IPO will raise approximately US$10 billion in funds and seek a valuation close to US$100 billion. If the listing goes well, Didi will become the largest IPO of a Chinese company in the United States since Alibaba raised $25 billion in its IPO in 2014.

From the perspective of capital, Didi seems to be a “unicorn fed by capital.” Since the day of its establishment, Didi has conducted 23 rounds of financing, with a total amount of more than 20 billion U.S. dollars. Moreover, it is Didi’s shared bicycle Qingju (valuation of US$1.9 billion), autonomous driving business (valuation of US$3.4 billion), Didi Cargo (valuation of US$2.8 billion), and Orange Heart (valuation of 1.8 billion US dollars). U.S. dollars) and other subsidiaries, the total valuation has reached nearly 10 billion U.S. dollars, not to mention its main business that occupies most of the Chinese travel market share.

In addition, Didi also defines autonomous driving, shared travel platforms, car service networks, and electric vehicles as four core strategic sectors in its prospectus. It is not difficult to see that Didi also intends to keep up with “car making”. After all, its related travel business scenarios have just solved the “mass use” demand of pure electric smart cars.

HKUST iFLYTEK has a thunderstorm, iFLYTEK’s input method is delisted, stock price plummets On June 11, iFLYTEK had a thunderstorm. Not only did the stock price drop by nearly 9.6% on that day, it was also a hot search on two microblogs called “XiTi”. The reason for this is that “the iFlytek input method was removed from the shelves of major mobile application markets” was the fuse that triggered the “thunderstorm” incident of iFlytek. Tracing back to the source, as early as May 1 this year, in the “Notice on the Illegal and Illegal Collection and Use of Personal Information by 33 Apps including Input Method” published by the National Internet Information Office, the iFLYTEK Input Method was “out of the top” and improperly collected users. Information problem. Judging from the current results, iFlytek’s rectification measures for the past one month do not seem to be in place. Therefore, the removal on June 11 is a further legal measure by the competent authority. But what is thinking is that if iFLYTEK is removed from the shelves today, will there be another XX input method coming out tomorrow? Excessive collection of user information has long become a common occurrence. But what is even more frightening is that some people are using the collected information to meticulously weave “Trumen’s world” one after another. While building information cocoon rooms, they are selling “false” beauty. But the good news is that people’s awareness of privacy is getting stronger and stronger, and the continuous removal of input methods will be a good start. Blue Origin sells its first commercial space travel ticket for $28 million On June 12, 2021, local time, an unidentified bidder bid for US$28 million (approximately RMB 180 million) to bid for Blue Origin, a space travel company owned by Amazon founder Bezos. Tickets for the first manned space flight. According to the plan previously announced by Blue Origin, the winning bidder will take the “New Shepard” (New Shepard) into space together with Bezos and his brother Mark on July 20 to embark on the first commercial tourism in space. It is reported that the first manned flight of the “New Shepard” will carry four passengers, including Bezos, Bezos’ brother, the winning bidder in this auction, and the fourth person will be announced later. On May 5 this year, Blue Origin announced the sale of a ticket for the first space cruise through an online auction. The initial bid for this ticket was 4.8 million U.S. dollars, but it exceeded 20 million U.S. dollars in the first few minutes of the auction. According to reports, the auction proceeds will be donated to Blue Origin’s education-focused non-profit organization “Future Club”, which provides support to young people interested in future science and engineering careers. BYD President Wang Chuanfu clarified “Persuade Lei Jun not to build a car” On June 13, at the 2021 China Automotive Chongqing Forum, BYD President Wang Chuanfu made a special clarification in response to his remarks three days ago that he advised Xiaomi not to build cars. Wang Chuanfu said: “There are reports that BYD persuades the founder of Xiaomi Technology Lei Jun not to build a car. This is wrong. Lei Jun and we have a very good cooperative relationship. We OEM a large number of Xiaomi phones and are strategic partners.” According to media reports, on June 10, Wang Chuanfu said at the Yabuli China Entrepreneurs Forum: “There are not many companies that have the advantage of making cars. Lei’s total investment of 100 billion yuan may be a loss of money and a waste of time.” No The young media interpreted it as “Wang Chuanfu advised Lei Jun not to build a car.” In general, this incident may not be counted as an Oolong by BYD. Moreover, the news of Lei Jun’s visits to major car companies continues, and BYD is also unable to push the partners who have been sent to the door. But the strategic direction and time-consuming thinking is indeed something that companies like Xiaomi need to do. Although, with the blessing of various large flows, the “cake” of “car building” is getting bigger and bigger, but cars must not only be built, but they must also survive. As President Wang Chuanfu said, there are three key points for making a car to “survive”. The first is to have core competitiveness; the second is to have a very precise strategy; and the third is to have a rapid decision-making mechanism. New energy vehicles are a new thing, and there are many routes, but if the route is skewed, it may suffer heavy losses. Cruise receives US$5 billion support from GM, and Waymo raises another US$2.5 billion On June 16, GM officially announced that GM Finance will provide Cruise with a $5 billion multi-year credit line to help the operation and expansion of Cruise Origin’s self-driving fleet. GM’s move is not only a further boost to autonomous driving, but also shows GM’s determination and confidence in the commercialization of Cruise. Coincidentally, the commercialization of the Cruise Dubai cooperation and the California unmanned vehicle passenger “license” is in full swing; Waymo, whose CEO and CFO have just resigned, has also begun to add weights, raising $2.5 billion in a lump sum. “Hot Money”. It is reported that Waymo’s financing news was also announced on June 16, investors including Google parent company Alphabet, Andreessen Horowitz, AutoNation, Canada Pension Plan Investment Commission and other major capital. It has to be said that Waymo’s ability to attract funds is commendable, after all, after this financing, its valuation has reached 30 billion US dollars. But the increasingly serious problem of brain drain is also becoming a shackle of Waymo. In other words, as the concept of smart car making is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, the competition for talent will become more and more serious. OnePlus merged with OPPO, is it an “Oga” mobile phone or an “Oga” car? On June 16, OnePlus CEO Liu Zuohu released an internal email, announcing that OnePlus mobile phones will be fully integrated with OPPO, and OnePlus will also become an independent brand of OPPO. This is another big move since OPPO exposed the car. OnePlus and OPPO are in the same line. Although both are independent brands, from a capital perspective, both OnePlus and OPPO are controlled by Ouga Holdings, which is also the basic condition for the two to merge. It is reported that as early as August last year, news of Liu Zuohu’s return to OPPO has flowed out on the Internet. At that time, OPPO gave the response: Liu Zuohu will return as the senior vice president of Ouga Holdings, and is fully responsible for the product planning and experience of Ouga . Of course, from the mobile phone market, the integration of the two will further strengthen OPPO’s market weight in the field of smart phones. However, the organization and personnel adjustments between OPPO and OnePlus seem to be related to car manufacturing issues. OPPO CEO Chen Mingyong may intend to let Liu Zuohu participate in part of the car building work, and Liu Zuohu also recently visited Li Xiang, the founder of Ideal Auto. C-dimensional star list/Tu Datong Reasons for the list: It can provide the most powerful hybrid solid-state lidar that has been installed in mass-produced models Innovusion, established in November 2016, is headquartered in Suzhou. It is an entrepreneurial company with the nature of a supplier. Its main research areas involve lidar, autonomous driving, and smart transportation. The founders are Bao Junwei and Li Yimin, both of whom are typical engineering masters and have more than 20 years of work experience. In January of this year, the cooperation between Tudatong and NIO revealed that on NIO DAY2020, the latest NIO ET7 equipped with a lidar provided by Tudacom officially entered the stage of history. It is understood that the radar has an ultra-wide viewing angle of 120 degrees, a high resolution equivalent to 300 lines, and a maximum detectable distance of 500 meters. Taking advantage of the hot spots of ET7, in May of this year, Tu Datong completed the B round of financing, the latest valuation of 300 million US dollars, a total of 64 million US dollars in financing. This round of financing was jointly invested by Temasek, BAI Capital and Joy Capital. Old shareholders NIO Capital, Stow Capital and F-Prime also participated. 1. Founder Bao Junwei & Li Yimin Second, best practices Tudatong claims to be the world’s first 300-line high-definition ultra-long range lidar provider. Related lidar products are mainly used in smart transportation, smart high-speed, urban rail transit, and mining. In addition to the dream linkage with Weilai, Tudatong also has related cooperation with Baidu. At present, Tudatong’s image-level long-range lidar has been deployed in Baidu’s Apollo intelligent transportation city project, including Beijing, Changsha, Cangzhou and other places. It is understood that Tudatong’s lidar products mainly include: Jaguar Elite Edition (for smart cities), and Aquila lidar (Falcon architecture) carried on Weilai ET7. See the figure below for details: Three, technical route TuDatong believes that lidar is the inevitable result of the evolution of autonomous driving. Compared with mechanical rotary lidar and solid-state lidar, hybrid solid-state radar has more advantages. In addition to being smaller and lower cost than mechanical rotary lidar, it is also more realizable than pure solid-state lidar. The lower the difficulty and the stronger the certainty, the easier it is to achieve. In addition, the standard detection distance of 300 lines and 250m is the other two points that Tudatong insists on. With a resolution of less than 300 lines, the human eye will miss some important information due to the large distance between the lidar wire harness and the wire harness when looking at the picture, which may be reflected in the perception system of the autonomous vehicle. Cause a traffic accident. The standard detection distance of 250m is because when an autonomous vehicle is driving at a high speed of 120km/h, the safe distance that can be reliably sensed is at least 250m. Fourth, there is a “money” way According to Tianyan Check, since 2017, Tudatong has experienced four rounds of financing, namely seed round, A round, strategic financing and the most recent B round of financing. The latest valuation reached 300 million U.S. dollars. Among them, it is worth noting that Weilai went directly off the market and participated in Tudatong’s A round and B rounds of financing. In addition to being optimistic about the lidar industry, it is also an affirmation of Tudatong’s technical capabilities

On June 10th, the 22nd anniversary of iFlytek, Chairman Liu Qingfeng issued a letter to employees. He mentioned in the letter that iFLYTEK at the beginning of the year put forward the 14th Five-Year Plan of “one billion users, 100 billion revenue, and trillion ecology”, among which systemic innovation and strategic bases are the most important growth path for the next five years. , Are also the two core engines that support the rapid growth of performance.

He believes that at the current time, achieving goals requires adherence to the scientific spirit, which is to see the essence through the phenomenon, seek truth and be pragmatic, analyze and demonstrate, and be innovative and rational. First of all, we must use the spirit of science to return to the essence of value creation. “In education, whether our system can satisfy the essence of value creation depends on whether we can truly teach students in accordance with their aptitude and reduce the burden on teachers and students in the main campus. In terms of medical care, whether our system can satisfy value creation depends on whether our system can satisfy the value creation. Can it succeed in major emergencies?” Liu Qingfeng said.

Secondly, if you look at the problem dialectically with the spirit of science, there will be no short-term anxiety. Liu Qingfeng believes that continuous breakthroughs in single-point technology have become a habit of Xunfei, but the threshold of single-point technology will always be gradually overtaken by latecomers. Sticking to a single technology will inevitably flow into mediocrity and enter the red sea of ​​technology and application. “We must not only open up a position in one new technological field, continue to explore in the unmanned area of ​​technology, but also form a unique core competitiveness through systematic innovation, so as to achieve overall innovation on the strategic base and form our own Industry brand.”

Finally, he mentioned that to use the spirit of science to get out of the comfort zone, the stage is as big as the mind. “Getting out of the comfort zone is risk prevention, and it is also a development need and the desire to build the world with artificial intelligence.” Liu Qingfeng said that the status of the iFLYTEK artificial intelligence national team is constantly being strengthened, giving iFLYTEK the ability to systematically innovate and create the future. conditions of.

He also talked about the topic of “lying flat” that has caused heated discussion recently. He said that within iFLYTEK, it is necessary to use this as a vigilance to prevent young people with the ability and dreams from being flattened here, losing their internal development motivation and vigorous vitality. We must create an organizational environment that allows young people to continuously release their inner abilities, ensure that “heroes are useful”, and propose that the company resolutely opposes involution.

The following is the full text of Liu Qingfeng’s employee letter:

Today is the 22nd birthday of IFLYTEK. Thank you for your company!

The national college entrance examination has come to an end. The Guangdong college entrance examination, which has been affected by the epidemic, has been tested and no one is missing. This is the result of the joint efforts of all parties in the society, including our examination business center in Guangzhou, South China. They provided more than 50 million services for various examinations across the country last year alone; our intelligent medical assistant phone robots also rushed to help urgently in this epidemic, and quickly completed the screening for more than one million people in Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Qingyuan, etc. Check and win important fighters in the race against the virus.

The epidemic is a touchstone of human nature, a manifestation of system advantages and management capabilities, and a martial arts field for testing whether artificial intelligence is truly practical.

At the beginning of this year, we put forward the fourteenth five-year goal of “one billion users, one hundred billion revenue, and one trillion ecology”. Among them, systematic innovation and strategic bases are the most important growth paths for us in the next five years, and are also the most important support for our high-speed growth. The two core engines. Looking back at the past six months:

Good news of the education business “Teaching Students in Accordance with One’s Aptitude” project has been reported frequently. It has landed in Zhengzhou and Wuhan, and the business has grown by more than 70%. The learning machine has been well received by parents and students, and the business has grown by about 200%. In July, we will release new products; Steady growth, the completion rate of B-end software exceeded 90% year-on-year, C-end software exceeded 52% year-on-year, and C-end hardware 618 start-up sales increased by 108% year-on-year; the “Smart Medical Assistant” project of medical business moved from Anhui to the whole country, with service coverage There are more than 38,000 grassroots doctors with more than 100 million residents; the construction of “Digital JAC” in smart cities will open up our provincial base model; the digital transformation of enterprises will also open a new situation, and our “Xunfei Tuling Platform” has been given priority by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and Anhui Province Support and take the lead in building a digital transformation platform for SMEs.

At such a time node, how do we continue to use “systematic innovation” and “base business” to achieve our 14th Five-Year Plan?

That is to use the spirit of science to drive towards our sea of ​​stars.

What is the “scientific spirit”?

It is the rational spirit of looking at the essence through the phenomenon, seeking truth and being pragmatic, analyzing and demonstrating, and pioneering and innovative.

In today’s rapidly changing era, we particularly emphasize the need to use the spirit of science to penetrate the surface and see the essence, reduce unnecessary anxiety, and maintain long-term strategic determination.

Specifically, it includes:

Use scientific spirit to return to the essence of value creation;

With the spirit of science, you will not be short-term anxious if you look at the problem dialectically;

With the spirit of science, step out of the comfort zone, the stage will be as big as you have in mind.

1. Return to the essence of value creation with scientific spirit

At the beginning of our business 22 years ago, we put forward the core concept of “achieve employees’ ideals and create social value”. The social value we create is the core value of high added value that is sunny and healthy, representing the country’s future participation in global competition.

In education, whether our system can satisfy the essence of value creation depends on whether we can truly teach students in accordance with their aptitude in the main campus to reduce the burden on teachers and students.

On May 21, 2021, the 19th meeting of the Central Committee for Comprehensively Deepening Reform pointed out that “one of the most prominent problems of compulsory education is that primary and secondary school students’ burden is too heavy, and the short-sighted and utilitarian problems have not been fundamentally resolved. Especially for off-campus training institutions. Disorderly development.” After that, those education and training institutions that relied on capital power to expand disorderly, over-marketed the anxiety of parents, and relied on duck-filling training to invade their children’s childhood, were repeatedly punished and laid off frequently; and iFLYTEK was in the process. On the contrary, China’s share price hit a new high.

Because our “Teaching students in accordance with their aptitude” is to strengthen the value of the main position of school education, assist teachers and students to return to school, do a good job in teaching within a limited time, free up children’s time, and let children change from duck-filling training to autonomous learning with the help of intelligent learning machines . It can be found that more and more children have improved their academic performance and reduced their learning time through our “teaching in accordance with their aptitude”: Taking a single knowledge point as an example, the amount of exercises for children has been reduced by 32%, and the learning time has been reduced by 48%. Let children have time to play, explore and cultivate their curiosity and thirst for knowledge.

Education is the foundation of a country. If education is not good, children are not good, and the future of the country cannot be good. The country’s long-term investment strategy of fiscal education expenditures accounting for 4% of GDP remains unchanged. As long as we meet the essence of value creation, the stars and seas of artificial intelligence empowering education will come naturally. .

In medical care, whether our system can satisfy value creation depends on whether it can survive major emergencies.

During the rebound of the epidemic in Hefei, the Hefei Municipal Party Committee and Government held a special meeting to clarify the need to speed up the deployment of our epidemic prevention and control system; in this Guangzhou epidemic rebound, our intelligent epidemic prevention and control multi-point trigger system was activated as soon as possible. Nansha District As soon as we announced the strengthening of management and control, we immediately surveyed the 5464 “key populations for investigation” in Nansha. It took only one hour to call, and immediately screened 853 people who had been to the medium- and high-risk areas of the epidemic in the past 15 days, and 110 people did not. He has done nucleic acid and generated statistical reports through these dimensions to help the government make accurate decisions.

2. Using the scientific spirit to dialectically look at the problem will not be short-term anxiety

Some external voices say that the threshold of voice technology is constantly lowering, and some of our friends are a little anxious. In fact, from speech synthesis to speech recognition, from machine translation to natural language understanding, single-point technology continues to break through. This has become our habit at iFLYTEK; however, the single-point technology threshold will always be gradually overtaken by latecomers. Sticking to a single technology will inevitably flow into mediocrity and enter the red sea of ​​technology and application .

We will not only open up positions in one new technological field after another, and continue to explore in the technological no man’s land, It is also necessary to form a unique core competitiveness through systematic innovation , In order to achieve overall innovation on the strategic base, and form our own industry brand.

Many parents are now anxious about their children’s performance even in elementary school or even pre-school education. In addition to grades, education must be able to cultivate children’s learning interest and curiosity, develop good learning habits and physical fitness. Through our “teach students in accordance with their aptitude”, we can make children have a firmer grasp of knowledge points, and free up time to exercise creative thinking to achieve the five education simultaneously; we can also help parents understand which subjects are most in line with their children’s talents. These are all It is a core contribution beyond the acceptance rate, helping the country’s selection system and achievement orientation to diversify. As long as we persist in using rational thinking to help parents reduce their burdens, we can become a stream of value creation in the era of general anxiety education.

3. Get out of the comfort zone with the spirit of science, and the stage will be as big as you have in mind

Most people are used to staying in the comfort zone. However, the development of Xunfei is the process of stepping out of the “comfort zone” and exploring unknown boundaries:

Technically, it is from synthesis to recognition, to semantic understanding; from Chinese to English, to multilingual; from speech to image; from perception to cognition; from being able to listen and speak to being able to understand and think. With the breakthrough, we can undertake the construction of the only State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Intelligence, become one of the first four open artificial intelligence platforms in the country, and become the “national team” in the field of artificial intelligence.

In business, if you are satisfied from language learning to intelligent evaluation, there will be no current “teach students in accordance with their aptitude” so that every child can enjoy a high-quality and balanced education; if they are satisfied from electronic medical records to intelligent medical assistants, there will be no current intelligent epidemic The prevention and control system provides artificial intelligence power for orderly epidemic prevention and control; if you are only satisfied with occupying more than 60% of the market share in the car voice kit market, you will not have the courage to force yourself to reach in-depth cooperation with many car companies. And self-breakthrough to enter the field of autonomous driving.

We want to move on to a bigger stage, just to do things that can only be gained by jumping up and forcing ourselves to continue to make breakthroughs. Getting out of the comfort zone is not only risk prevention, but also development needs and the desire to build the world with artificial intelligence.

The status of our artificial intelligence national team is constantly being strengthened, giving us the ability to systematically innovate and create conditions for the future.

In 2017, the “New Generation of Artificial Intelligence Development Plan” mentioned that speech recognition is the world leader, and the country’s first batch of intelligent speech artificial intelligence open innovation platforms settled in Xunfei. Four years later, on May 28th, General Secretary Xi Jinping once again proposed at the academician conference of the two academies, “China’s speech recognition is at the forefront of the world.” This makes us very proud. We have done it in the country’s mission; The secretary pointed out that we have entered the era of intelligent interconnection of all things with the ternary integration of “human, machine and things”. In 2019, we proposed that “intelligent voice interaction will become the most important entrance for human-computer interaction in the era of interconnection of all things”. HKUST Xunfei took the lead in establishing a new standard system in the field of intelligent voice and accelerated the construction of the national technology standard innovation base; on May 27, under the witness of eight leaders from Shanghai, Jiangsu Province, Zhejiang Province and Anhui Province, HKUST Xunfei took the lead The chairman of the Yangtze River Delta Artificial Intelligence Industry Chain Alliance was formally established; at a special meeting organized by the Anhui Provincial Government on June 3, Governor Wang Qingxian made it clear: We must give full play to the leading advantages of intelligent voice technology represented by iFLYTEK, and accelerate the development A complete artificial intelligence industry system featuring intelligent voice.

The best way to foresee the future is to create the future.

If we want to achieve the development goals of the 14th Five-Year Plan and our cause is to benefit more mankind, we must let talents from all over the world join our ranks and give them a bigger stage. Recently, the topic of “lying flat” has aroused heated discussion. Many people laugh at themselves and say that I don’t want to work hard, but on the other hand, the number and popularity of online knowledge videos continue to increase, indicating that young people now have a strong self-drive and spirit of striving and enterprising, and they are a generation with dreams and personality.

In fact, many young people are very good, but some may not have a platform for growth and display, so that the ceiling of the workplace will soon come. Inside iFLYTEK, we must also take this as a vigilance to prevent young people with the ability and dreams from being flattened, losing their internal development momentum and vigorous vitality here. We need to create an organizational environment that allows young people to continuously release their inner abilities and ensure that “heroes are useful.”

Within the enterprise, we firmly oppose involution, Anything that can’t really create value for customers is an involution that is not worth the effort: Those that require a uniform format on insignificant matters are internal scrolling; those that spend time and energy on handling internal interpersonal relationships are internal scrolling; those that consume the lives of employees for multiple rounds of reporting. Our eyes should look outward, and the external tension that forms the organization is the fundamental way to solve the involution.

We hope that cadres at all levels of iFLYTEK can truly understand young people and look at problems from the perspective of young people. We need to first solve the young people’s survival pressure and growth pressure. From the perspective of “why not eat meat”, it is unobjective and unfair to put higher demands on young people who first need to solve the problem of food and clothing.

Struggle is the background color of youth, but it requires “civilian and martial arts, one relaxation.” We will continue to release the vitality of the organization, so that young people have greater motivation for growth, and every step of the happy struggle will have tangible rewards.

Today, population aging and declining birth rate are the general trend. Building a happy China must rely on artificial intelligence; the demographic dividend is gradually disappearing, more and more jobs will not be undertaken by young people, and building an industrial power must rely on artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence is taking on the important task of reshaping the competitive landscape of the global industrial chain. Standing at the new starting point of the 14th Five-Year Plan, facing the big future of artificial intelligence, we are in a golden window period and stand on an unprecedented stage.

No one can stay old, but the struggler is always young.

May we have hills in our breasts and mountains in our eyes.

Together, create the future!

Du Lan, Senior Vice President of iFLYTEK, HKUST

The four-day Boao Forum for Asia 2021 Annual Conference will be held in Boao, Hainan from April 18th to 21st. During the meeting, Du Lan, senior vice president of iFLYTEK, said that when he talked about the development trend of artificial intelligence in the next ten years, Intelligence will provide new opportunities for industrial development in four aspects, and will also generate more new landing application scenarios.

First, we are in the era of interconnection of all things, human-computer interaction will become more and more convenient, and the future will also enter the era of interconnection of all things. “As we all see now, for example, there are many people on the scene using intelligent equipment to convert speech.” Dulan believes that with the advancement of this technology, it is not only in speech recognition, but more The application scenarios, such as returning to home, in the car, etc., can be interconnected and interacted with all things. Among these, there are very good industrial development patterns and prospects, which will also bring changes to everyone’s lives.

Second, with the direction of human cognitive intelligence and the continuous deepening of research and development, we can continue to expand applications in the direction of machine learning. Therefore, various new industry applications will gradually deepen, such as education and medical care. , Smart City and other fields. The biggest feature of artificial intelligence is that it can quickly learn the knowledge field of human experts, so that it can quickly exceed 90% of ordinary people. Therefore, it can empower ordinary people with the best human experts. From this point, artificial intelligence There will be new applications in many industries.

The third is the change of emotional appeal, that is, the computing power of emotion will increase, and the communication of modern people will be satisfied through the recognition of human emotion and the synthesis of emotion, which will also produce some new industry fields and applications.

The fourth and most important point is that the development of brain-computer interfaces is getting faster and faster. Our research on brain science and the impact of brain-computer interface hybrid collaboration technology on technology and life will also bring the heart of related industries. development of.

Based on the above viewpoints, Dulan believes that the future will be a golden decade for the development of artificial intelligence.

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On April 20th, the Boao Forum for Asia 2021 annual meeting was held. Du Lan, senior vice president of iFLYTEK and chairman of Guangdong Artificial Intelligence Industry Association, said in an interview that at the critical moment of upgrading traditional industries, industrial digitization is very important .and An important factor that determines the digitalization of the industry is whether it can persist in the innovation of the source core technology.

“This year’s GDP goal is to reach 6%, and the investment in scientific research during the 14th Five-Year Plan period will reach 7%, of which the investment in basic research and development will reach 10.6%, and a ten-year plan for basic research is also proposed.” Du Lan said.

Dulan pointed out that the continuous growth of the performance of some enterprises in the development of artificial intelligence last year shows that artificial intelligence is not only a fun black technology, but also can solve people’s practical problems. For example, AI + medical has entered thousands of households, and intelligent medical assistants can assist in the diagnosis and treatment of 95% of common diseases. These have brought many changes in the industry.

What is the future development trend of artificial intelligence? Dulan believes that first, human-computer interaction will become more and more convenient, and it will enter the era of intelligent connection of all things. Nowadays, many people are using intelligent equipment for voice conversion, but with the advancement of technology, not only voice recognition but also cars and other things can be interconnected and interacted. Second, the various applications of artificial intelligence in various industries will gradually deepen, such as education, medical care, and smart cities in various fields. Third, emotional appeals will also change. We will recognize emotions to satisfy the communication of modern people, and also create some new industries.

“ The future will be a new decade facing the development of artificial intelligence. “Duran said.

What are the current bottlenecks and breakthroughs in China’s technological development? Du Lan said that “standing upright” is very important, and technology and applications should be combined to serve the production and life of the majority of people.

She said that “Dingtian” is to seek an irreplaceable position and continue to increase investment in research and development. For example, China provides a lot of convenience for everyone in terms of massive data and capital enthusiasm and even the openness of the application market, while the United States is more superior in core research and development, high-end talent reserves and patent capabilities, and breakthroughs are needed in these points.

She said that “site” is in application. China has great determination in application, has stronger capabilities, and has a better application market. It is necessary to accelerate the opening of application scenarios to continuously iterate AI technology and make the application better.