LIU Qingfeng

   

release time：2017-03-09 16:51:37  view count：135079  source：Boao Forum for Asia

The Founder,Board Chairman of iFLYTEK

Liu Qingfeng, founder and CEO & president of iFLYTEK, director of the National Speech & Language Engineering Laboratory of China, professor and doctoral advisor at the University of Science and Technology of China, director general of the Union of Speech Industry of China, director general of the Union of National University Student Innovation & Entrepreneurship, representative of the National People’s Congress.

For 17 years, Dr Liu Qingfeng has stood by the mission of “Let machines hear and speak, understand and predict”, and led iFLYTEK, the company that he cofounded with his team, in achieving outstanding results in the research and industrialization of speech and artificial intelligence core technology. The speech synthesis system that iFLYTEK developed has won eleven consecutive championships (2006-2016) in the Blizzard Challenge, which is the largest and most influential speech synthesis contest internationally. Their speech recognition system has been ranked among the best for 5 years executively since 2008 in the Speaker Recognition Evalution held by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), as well as achieving the best performance in all indicators in the Computational Hearing in Multisource Environments (CHiME) Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge. Their Chinese (Mandarin)-English two-way translation system won the championships in the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation in 2014, as well as the Open Machine Translation Evaluation held by NIST in 2015. iFLYTEK owns a 70% marketshare of the Chinese speech market. The total number of users of the iFLYTEK voice cloud exceeds 0.89 billion, and the average number of daily interactions exceeding 3 billion per day. More than 250 thousand third party startup teams make use of the technology. They also launched a major AI project called “iFLYTEK Hyper Brain”, which won the Winograd Schema Challenge and the NIST TAC Knowledge Base Population Contest in 2016. Now, iFLYTEK is recognized as the biggest speech public company in the Asia Pacific region. In recognition of his outstanding achievements in technological innovations and industrial contributions, Liu Qingfeng was appointed one of the 14th CCTV's China Economic Figures of the Year in 2013, and awarded the CBN's China Business Leaders Awards in 2015. iFLYTEK was listed as one of the Top Ten Public Companies of the year by CCTV in 2016.