Our History
iFLYTEK was founded in 1999 by Liu Qingfeng who currently serves as the Founder, Chairman and President of the company. Liu Qingfeng founded the company along with 18 fellow college and graduate students after participating in a speech synthesis contest and obtaining the highest score of all speech synthesis solutions at the time.
Since its founding, iFLYTEK has been dedicated to the research and development of intelligent speech and language technologies in addition to the application of artificial intelligence in the world.
1999
FLYTEK is founded by a group of college students
2000
iFLYTEK partners with USTC and Academy of Social Sciences to build initial research labs
2002
iFLYTEK receives the ‘National Key Software Enterprise’ award and is sponsored by the National Department of Science and Technology
2004
Annual revenue reaches 100 million RMB
2007
iFLYTEK intelligent voice chip hits the market
2008
iFLYTEK goes public and is listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, the only voice technology company listed at that time (Stock Code: 002230
2010
iFLYTEK launches its Open Platform, which is the first open voice platform with voice recognition capability
2011
iFLYTEK launches the first Chinese deep neural network speech recognition system
2012
The Open Platform “Voice Cloud” reaches over 150 million users
2014
іFLYTEK launches the groundbreaking HyperBrain Project
2015
iFLYTEK launches AlUl, an upgraded version of the original iFLYTEK Open Platform
2016
iFLYTEK’s speech synthesis is deemed more natural than the average person. iFLYTEK releases Xiao Yi Translator and iFLYREC Intelligent Conferencing System
2017
iFLYTEK is ranked the 6th smartest company by MIT Technology Review
2018
iFLYTEK reports $800 million in annual revenue and continues to release more A.l. products
2019
FLYTEK was chosen to be the exclusive translation and transcription service provider for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games
