IFLYTEK CO.,LTD.(iFLYTEK)is a national key software enterprise dedicated to the research of intelligent speech and language technologies, development of software and chip products, provision of speech information services, and integration of E-government systems. The intelligent speech technology of iFLYTEK, the core technology of the company, represents the top level in the world. Established in 1999, iFLYTEK was listed in the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 2008 (stock code: 002230). With vigorous support from major shareholders including USTC Holdings Co., Ltd., Shanghai Guangxin, and Legend Capital, iFLYTEK boasts the longest fundamental research history, the largest professional research team, the greatest capital investment, the best evaluation results, and the largest market share among all business entities in the speech technology field in China. The speech technologies, comprising mainly speech synthesis and speech recognition, aim to enable human-machine speech communication as convenient as human-human communication. The speech synthesis technology enables a machine to talk and the speech recognition technology enables a machine to hear. In addition, the speech technologies also include oral language evaluation, speech coding, timbre transformation, noise reduction and speech enhancement technologies, which will have a great application prospect. As a leading provider of intelligent speech technology, iFLYTEK has achieved the international advanced results in many core technologies including speech synthesis, speech recognition, oral language evaluation, and natural language processing. Appointed by the Ministry of Information Industry of China, iFLYTEK is now leading the work group to set up the Chinese speech technology standard. It is the only company in the speech technology industry who has won the titles of the “Industrialization Base for the Results of the National High-tech R&D Program of China (the 863 Program)”, “Key Software Enterprise within National Programming Layout”, and “National High-tech Industrialization Demonstration Project”. iFLYTEK has been awarded the National Prize for Progress in Science and Technology In 2003 and 2011 respectively, and awarded the Key Technology Invention Award in the Information Industry in 2005 and 2011 respectively. From 2008 to 2011, iFLYTEK has ranked the top in the NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation for four consecutive years. In 2011, the National Intelligent Speech High-tech Industrialization Base and the National Lab for Speech and Language Information Processing Engineering had been settled down in Hefei, which would pool industrial resources and secure the leading position of iFLYTEK in the industry. Based on the international leading intelligent speech technologies with independent intellectual property rights, iFLYTEK has launched a variety of products to meet the needs of a diversity of application environments, which range from large-scale carrier-class applications to small-scale embedded applications, from telecom and finance industries to enterprise and consumer markets, from mobile phones to vehicle-mounted devices, and from home appliances to toys. Cooperating with more than 10000 development partners, iFLYTEK has occupied more than 70% of market share in the Chinese speech technology market, and taken the lead in the formation of the Chinese speech industry chain. As the mobile Internet enters a voice era, iFLYTEK has launched the iFLYTEK Voice Cloud platform, the world’s first platform providing intelligent speech interaction capabilities over the mobile Internet. Based on the platform, iFLYTEK has launched such demonstration applications as iFLYTEK Voice Input and iFLYTEK ViaFly. In cooperation with many partners, iFLYTEK has made great efforts to promote the speech applications in mobile phones, automobiles, home appliances, toys, and a number of other fields, and ignited the innovation in the input and interaction mode in the mobile Internet era. The remarkable achievements made by iFLYTEK in speech technology research and industrialization have been highly recognized by the society. Many party and state leaders, including Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, Zhang Dejiang, Yu Zhengsheng, Liu Yunshan, and Zhang Gaoli, have inspected the iFLYTEK and praised the company’s innovative work. As being generally accepted by competent authorities in China, iFLYTEK is virtually the leader in the Chinese speech industry.