iFLYTEK has been presenting the beauty of the Chinese language at the China Pavilion of the Expo 2020 Dubai since the world event opened on October 1, 2021. Named “Light of China”, the China Pavilion is one of the largest at the expo, covering 4,636 square meters. It opened to the public on October 1 after four years of preparations and trial operations. As the designated supplier of artificial intelligence (AI) translators at the pavilion, iFLYTEK has been presenting its AI technologies and products there, highlighting Chinese knowledge to the world and making it possible for China’s voice to be heard across the globe.
China Pavilion at the Expo 2020 Dubai (Source: Expo 2020 Dubai)
The China Pavilion embodies China’s pursuit—to build a community with a shared future for mankind
The China Pavilion is themed “Build a Community with a Shared Future for Mankind – Innovation & Opportunity,” showcasing the common wish of the Chinese people.
The Expo 2020 Dubai is the first world expo held in the Middle East. It has attracted exhibitors from nearly 200 countries and is expected to receive 25 million visitors from around the world. As such, achieving smooth multilingual communication at the world event is a challenge that needs capable translation services.
As the designated supplier of AI translators at the China Pavilion, iFLYTEK provides its dual screen translators to guests to offer intelligent translation services, meeting the needs of exhibition hall guide and exhibit inquiries while enabling smooth communication between people from different countries through AI.
iFLYTEK’s dual-screen translator supports translation in over 80 different languages. The device also supports multiple functions such as offline translation, industry AI translation, and simultaneous subtitles translation, empowering professional and efficient multilingual communication anytime, anywhere. With the dual-screen translator, visitors to the Expo 2020 Dubai are assured of barrier-free communication when checking in at hotels, ordering meals at restaurants, shopping in stores, and inquiring about travels.
Through technological development and innovation, human beings have achieved ever-decreasing costs of communication that overcome the challenges of linguistic barriers. iFLYTEK has applied Chinese wisdom to bridging the communication gap in world exchanges and cooperation, and it fully embodies China’s pursuit of promoting world development and building a community with a shared future for mankind.
iFLYTEK presents the beauty of Chinese and helps the visitors learn Chinese
iFLYTEK has put on exhibition its Global Chinese Learning Platform at the Expo 2020 Dubai, presenting to the world the beauty of Chinese and trying to realize the dream that “the whole world learns Chinese.”
In the exhibition zone, the iFLYTEK Global Chinese Learning Platform consists of three parts—characters and words, sentences, and idioms. After scanning the QR code, visitors can choose from the three different languages of Chinese, English, and Arabic on the interface and then start learning Chinese through human-machine interaction.
To give visitors immersive Chinese learning experiences, iFLYTEK has carefully selected characteristic contents like “Peking Opera”, “Great Wall”, and “All within the four seas are brothers” from the resources provided by its partners including the People’s Education Press and Beijing Normal University. The company also provides words and sentences related to the expo, such as “Dubai” and “camel” coupled with Chinese-style illustrations, aiming to present the Chinese language and spread Chinese culture.
Chinese Consul-General in Dubai Li Xuhang (L2) engages with iFLYTEK’s Global Chinese Learning Platform
After guiding visitors to the China Pavilion at the Expo 2020 Dubai to learn Chinese pronunciations, iFLYTEK’s Global Chinese Learning Platform provides comments and feedback on their performance through speech transcription and speech evaluation technologies. In this way, the visitors can understand the beauty of Chinese and quickly learn numerous Chinese sentences on the tour.
iFLYTEK helps to make China’s voice heard around the world
During the six months of the Expo 2020 Dubai, visitors can also conduct online visits to the China Pavilion. iFLYTEK provides guide services in Chinese, English and Arabic at the “China Pavilion on the Cloud” through its speech synthesis technology. The online platform seeks to complement the physical Pavilion in showcasing China’s achievements in areas such as space exploration, information technology, and smart living. The official website of the China Pavilion also rebroadcasts various events at the site, so that more people feel the charm of Chinese culture and can actively engage in the exploration of Chinese.
The Expo 2020 Dubai, originally scheduled for October 20, 2020 to April 10, 2021, was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic to Oct. 1, 2021, to March 31, 2022, in the United Arab Emirates.
