iFlytek is an AI company founded 1999 in Hefei, Anhui, China, focused on Chinese speech technology — China's first-tier AI (with Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent, Huawei). Differentiator is "best at Chinese" — years of technical accumulation in Chinese ASR, TTS, dialect recognition makes it nearly monopolize the professional Chinese market. Product coverage: speech recognition (ASR, call center transcription most common), text-to-speech (TTS, smart speakers + audiobooks), Spark LLM (Chinese LLM benchmarking GPT-4), OCR, translation, voiceprint, oral assessment (core tech for education products). Customers include car infotainment (Li Auto, NIO use it), smart speakers (some Tmall Genie tech), education products (multiple electronic dictionaries / learning machines in China), enterprise customer service. Chinese developers building Chinese voice apps default to iFlytek; overseas / non-Chinese scenarios use OpenAI Whisper / AssemblyAI.