Let the world hear the voice of China: Iflytek intelligent car multilingual voice interactive system helps the national car go to sea

According to the "Time Battlefield" theory, time has become a scarce resource that companies compete for. How to make full use of the two hours people spend in their cars every day? Business opportunities are often hidden in the interactive experience in mobile scenes.

In-depth interaction is inseparable from the observation of users’ needs, and the language barrier naturally becomes the first hurdle to be overcome. In terms of in-vehicle interaction, Iflytek has carried out multilingual project cooperation with many domestic marine car providers such as SAIC, Changan and Chery, covering dozens of languages such as English, Japanese, Thai, Spanish and Italian.

On February 23, 2023, at the 2023 China Auto and Parts Summit Forum hosted by Gai Shi Automobile, Zhang Ruizhi, deputy director of Iflytek Intelligent Interactive Product Line, introduced that Iflytek’s multilingual voice interaction scheme has three characteristics: modularity, interactive localization and feature enrichment. Modularity can help car companies configure voice assistants in a weak network or even no network environment; Localization means that the phonetic corpus is all provided by native speakers to ensure the user experience; Enrichment means that there are enough functional modules and phonetic features to support different functional realization.

Zhang Ruizhi | Deputy Director of Iflytek Intelligent Interactive Product Line

The following is the content of the speech:

As a well-known artificial intelligence enterprise, Iflytek has been deeply involved in the automobile industry for more than 20 years, with profound product technology and customer accumulation. At present, in addition to helping domestic vehicle intelligent schemes and solutions to upgrade, the pace of internationalization of Iflytek has never stopped. At the earliest, we established cooperation with well-known universities and laboratories abroad, then discussed standards with well-known foreign institutions in the industry, and now, we are cooperating with many car companies to do overseas multilingual intelligent voice system projects.

At present, in the process of internationalization, we have achieved the landing and mass production of many products. Today, I want to share with you the theme of Iflytek Intelligent Vehicle Multilingual Interactive System, which helps Chinese cars go to sea.

User-experience-centered closed-loop voice interaction

The first part will be used as an introduction to substitute everyone into the closed-loop scene of voice interaction centered on user experience. At present, time has become a scarce resource that companies compete for. In our daily life, on average, we spend about two hours in the car every day. What can we do in these two hours? Is such a long time a happiness or a burden for us? At present, the intelligent network has covered the whole scene of life in the car, and both the car companies and the suppliers’ colleagues are making efforts in the field of intelligent cockpit.

In recent years, the development and breakthrough of artificial intelligence technology has realized the landing of many scenes, and at the same time, the landing of scenes has also brought about the improvement of vehicle intelligence and personalization. Nowadays, the concept of car has evolved into an intelligent mobile space. In this process, we will expect the car to become our partner, so it is very important for the car to understand us and communicate with us.

At present, the main entrance of intelligent interaction scene is voice, so it is very important to make voice understandable, but it is not easy to do this. In order to make human-computer interaction smoother, more natural and safer, we must first create a closed-loop technology, and Iflytek has achieved a closed-loop technology in voice technology. On this basis, we have also done a lot of in-depth interactive experience thinking in the automobile scene.

What kind of interaction is what we want? I think, first of all, it is simple, and what can be solved in one sentence goes without saying two words, and then it is intelligent, safe and humanized.

Image source: Iflytek

Under this framework, the overall solution of Iflytek voice is also developing gradually. At first, we need to activate the voice function by pressing keys or voice wake-up. Later, it evolved into direct command and interaction, and then developed to the present "visible and spoken". Voice interaction has become more and more important in the process of intelligent cockpit and vehicle intelligence, and the voice interaction mode has been evolving.

Using multilingual products as boosters to help national cars go to sea.

There are many weapons and bright spots for Chinese cars to go out to sea, and intelligence is bound to be one of the sharp weapons for Chinese cars to go out to sea at present. At present, the "killing" in the domestic market is already fierce. Under such circumstances, we hope to open up overseas markets by virtue of the intelligent advantages of domestic vehicles.

Voice is playing an increasingly important role in automobile intelligence, and intelligent voice system has gradually become the standard of smart cars. At present, Iflytek adopts the latest generation of overseas "cloud+terminal" automotive intelligent interaction solution, and has actually deployed many cloud sites overseas, which can connect with more information sources, thus enhancing the overseas automotive voice interaction experience.

If our overall plan is summed up in three phrases, it is

Scheme modularization, interactive localization and feature enrichment

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The scheme is modular, that is, it can provide the overall solution of cloud+terminal, and can also be disassembled flexibly according to customer’s needs, thus ensuring that the car also has intelligent voice interaction function in foreign weak network and no network environment.

Secondly, interaction localization, all the phonetic materials in our scheme are provided by native speakers, so as to ensure that the overall experience and design of phonetic interaction conform to local language habits.

Third, the speech features are rich. Although the speech seems to be a small module, in fact, the speech module alone contains modules such as recognition, awakening and synthesis. In fact, there are different phonetic features under each module, and only enough phonetic features can support the upper layer to create more interactive experiences.

As an artificial intelligence company, Iflytek has accumulated enough experience and technology in related fields, especially under the advantage of our voice function, and has made many achievements. In terms of overseas multilingualism, Iflytek has won the first prize in international multilingual related competitions for many times in the past two years.

In terms of technology, we insist on independent research and development. At present, Iflytek Group reserves as many as 60+ overseas languages, covering nearly 100 countries and regions around the world. At present, Iflytek has the ability of 10+ overseas mainstream languages in the automobile field, which can cover countries and regions where the current automobile factories go to sea, such as Europe, the Middle East, South America, Southeast Asia, etc., and it is expected to reach 30+ languages within three years.

We have rich practical production experience overseas. At present, Iflytek has cooperated with many car companies such as SAIC, Chery, Chang ‘an and Great Wall. Many overseas best-selling models have been equipped with Xunfei voice, and mass production has been realized in Europe, South America and the Middle East, so that the world can hear the voice from China.

Iflytek hopes to join hands with eco-partners in the industry to create a high-quality intelligent travel experience.

(The above content comes from the keynote speech "Intelligent Vehicle Multilingual Voice Interaction System Helps Independent Brands Go to Sea" delivered by Zhang Ruizhi, Deputy Director of Iflytek Intelligent Interactive Product Line at the 2023 China Automobile and Parts Summit Forum hosted by Gaspar on February 23rd, 2023. )

Only 18 million euros! Milan have locked in six goals in seven games and are expected to sign an Italian striker.

On March 12th, Beijing time, according to the Italian media "Corriere dello Sport", Serie A giants AC Milan are paying attention to Italian rising star Matteo Retegi and intend to bring him to the San Siro Stadium. At present, the ownership of Matteo Retegie is in the hands of Argentine giant Boca Juniors, and his liquidated damages are only 18 million euros, which is not high for the Rossoneri who are about to receive at least 70 million euros of Champions League bonuses.

Matteo Retegie, though named as an Italian rising star, can actually see from his name that he is not a pure Italian. Matteo Retegie was born in Argentina and had been playing in the Argentine League before. It was not until the beginning of this month, at the invitation of Italian national team coach Mancini, that he officially decided to play for the Italian national team, and he might play in the Euro 2024 qualifier this month.

Matteo Retegie came from the riverbed echelon, and then transferred to Boca Juniors echelon. He has been rented out for exercise in recent years. Matteo Retegie is 186cm tall and weighs 86kg. He is a center on the court. He has good footwork skills, a strong body and the potential to be a strong center. In the past two seasons, during Tigray’s playing period, Matteo Reggie gradually showed his talent.

Last season, Matteo Retegie played 27 games for Tigray, including 26 starts, and scored 19 goals and 3 assists, beating many players such as Cristaldo and winning the league shooter king in one fell swoop. So far this season, he has scored six goals in seven games, and his state is still hot, so he has also attracted the attention of many European teams, including AC Milan, the Italian giants who have been paying attention to him for a long time.

At present, Matteo Retegie’s brokerage company was founded by Italian legendary star Totti. As early as three years ago, Rome wanted to introduce this new star, but it failed to make it. Milan also paid attention to Matteo Retegie for a long time, and the club scouts tracked him and issued a scout report. When Ibrahimovic and Gill are older, Milan need to find a strong center, and Matteo Retegi, who is only 23 years old, seems to be a good choice.

Matteo Retegie’s contract with Boca Juniors will expire in 2024. With more than one year left in the contract, the transfer negotiations are relatively easy to start. If Tigray buys Matteo Retegie first, it will be difficult to sign this new star at this price. For Matteo Retegie, it is also a good thing for him to go to Serie A as soon as possible. After all, now that he is about to be selected for the Italian national team, he needs to be familiar with the Italian football style as soon as possible.

Chen Gen: the big country competition, competition management

Wen | Chen Gen

In the era of a large change in the past 100 years, artificial intelligence serves as the core technology of the new round of technology revolution and the industry revolution. For the importance of global development, artificial intelligence technology determines that the international leadership of the big country is almost one inevitable. However, the uncertainty of artificial intelligence development has also exacerbated the difficulty of technical risk management, bringing new challenges for global governance.

First, the high productivity of artificial intelligence also means high fortification.Wealth accumulation and speed and international strength contrast will have a more obvious partial wild, that is, the rich country is rich, the strong country is more strong, and the poor country is the stronger, the weak country weakens, resulting in more wealth unevenness and unfair Incorrectization, more conflict with conflict and conflict and terrorism, this is a greater uncertainty and governance of global governance.

Second, artificially intelligent high execution also means high destructive power.If the new weapons and network viruses, there is an endless body condition that has the human body conditions and the unknown tired action, which will bring benefits to the implementation tasks of various countries, but may also be used by some forces, thus giving international Society has brought serious safety hazards, and may even bring disasters to the entire human society.

Finally, the high intelligence of artificial intelligence also means high political. Advanced artificial intelligence gives the technical owner’s outstanding additional advantages, robotic industry, gene sequencing, automatic driving, intelligent finance, smart city, big data processing, natural language processing, image identification, intelligent military system and other artificial intelligence, Change the country’s core competitiveness and economic and social and industrial structure, thereby changing the power structure in many fields.

Because of this, as a big country as the development and application of artificial intelligence, China and the United States play an extremely important role in artificial intelligence, and both parties have unique advantages that other countries cannot copy.How to prevent or reduce artificial intelligence technological advances on the negative impact of global sustainable development and strategic stability requires the work of China and the United States.

In fact, competition in the field of artificial intelligence is not an absolute zero and game, and there is a cooperative development and mutual benefit between parties. China is relatively leading in experimental research and results, and the United States is more leading in basic research and cutting-edge technology exploration. There is a broad cooperative space in both parties.

To this end, China and the United States should be in-depth thinking, work together to launch a formal dialogue on the application of artificial intelligence in safety and economic sectors.Promote the transparency of artificial intelligence research and development, driving its beneficial results to achieve reasonable allocation in a global scale, to minimize the competitive situation that may lead to catastrophic conflicts, and promote the formation of reasonable, benign competition and cooperative relations.

As Kissinger said, China and the United States are the most capable of impacting world progress and peace in technology, political experience and history, and solving the important issues in both parties in cooperation will be China and the United States. Common responsibility for peace and progress.