On August 27, the 2023 Budapest World Championships in Athletics (hereinafter referred to as the "World Championships in Athletics") officially ended. On the field, athletes are brave and good, and off the field, science and technology athletes make a strong voice, using "hardcore" technology to break the global communication barrier. As the event supplier of the 2023 Budapest World Athletics Championships, iFLYTEK not only provides automatic translation software and hardware products and services to the conference, but also takes the lead in building a global multilingual technology ecology, releases the Budapest Artificial Intelligence Joint Open Platform, condenses global scientific and technological forces to serve people around the world, and uses science and technology to help communication barrier-free.
Multilingual products bring countless of them
"Warm tech moments"
The World Championships in Athletics attracted more than 2,100 athletes from about 200 countries and regions to compete on the same stage, and journalists and spectators from all over the world gathered in Budapest, which brought a large number of cross-language communication work scenes.
As the event supplier of the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, iFLYTEK has brought a rich three-dimensional solution to make every cross-language communication during the World Athletics Championships full of technological warmth:
A Yemeni athlete who only speaks Arabic braved Budapest to participate in the men's 800-meter dash, and "met" the iFLYTEK translator when he arrived at the registration, from completing various procedures, to check-in, to the follow-up arrangement of training and competitions, iFLYTEK translator became a good helper for him to chat with the world anytime, anywhere.
iFLYTEK translator that supports 60 languages is like a universal personal translator, Arabic, Finnish, German... Athletes from Chile used the iFLYTEK interpreter to "consult" the 3000m obstacle champion from Morocco to win the championship, and athletes from South America expressed their desire to buy a translator to bring home.
In the media center, journalists from Japan, Germany, Romania and other countries praised the good experience of iFLYTEK voice recorders and iFLYTEK intelligent microphones.
Like the language teacher's iFLYTEK dictionary pen, it is also very popular, French athletes use it to scan menus, and Argentine athletes praise it to their teammates when they finish using it.
At the press conference, iFLYTEK heard that simultaneous interpretation "played" the role of multilingual real-time "translator", and the speech content of the speakers was translated into Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Spanish, Hungarian, Arabic and other Chinese in real time and displayed on the big screen, and participants from different countries around the world could directly watch the translation results.
During the conference, in response to the sustainable development strategy, the iFLYTEK co-organizing committee jointly launched the "Smile for a Sustainable World" activity with Sinosz, the Hungarian Association for the Deaf and Dumb, nearly 1,000 athletes from all over the world shared their smiling photos to the comment area of iFLYTEK's overseas social platforms, and iFLYTEK also donated 1 euro to the Sinosz Association for the Deaf and Dumb Association for each smiling athlete to provide charitable help for the hearing impaired and visually impaired. 5% of iFLYTEK's revenue during the event will also be donated to Sinosz, dedicated to providing welfare to those in need.
Take the lead in building
Budapest Joint Open Platform for Artificial Intelligence
In Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games as the official automatic speech conversion and translation exclusive supplier of the Games, in the 31st Summer Universiade in Chengdu as the official exclusive supplier of automatic speech conversion and translation, in the 2023 Budapest World Athletics Championships as the event supplier, iFLYTEK, a Chinese scientific and technological force, has been active in major global sports events, and is committed to using technology to help people around the world achieve barrier-free communication.
At the press conference, "Youhuu", an indigenous Hungarian sheep equipped with iFLYTEK's AIGC content creation platform, fluently spoke multi-Chinese through the multilingual technology integrated by the Budapest artificial intelligence joint open platform system, demonstrated multilingual broadcasting capabilities at the press conference, and conveyed the spirit of sportsmanship to the world in a lively and vivid way.
Different from the past, in the international stage of the World Championships in Athletics, iFLYTEK has joined hands with 11 technology partners, including the BME Intelligent Laboratory of Budapest University of Technology and Economics and the enterprises incubated by the laboratory, including Speechtex (Hungary), Speechmatics (UK), Acapela (Belgium), Mediazen (Korea), AItalk (Japan), AIC of the Egyptian Ministry of Communications, National Intelligent Voice Innovation Center, etc. For the first time, he led the construction of a global multilingual technology ecology and released the Budapest Artificial Intelligence Joint Open Platform, in order to aggregate the world's best technology to serve people around the world.
"We sought technology partners from all over the world and successfully introduced 115 technologies with regional language and native language advantages for this event." Long Mingkang, Dean of iFLYTEK AI Engineering Institute, said that the Budapest AI Joint Open Platform will invite speech and language technology companies from all over the world to participate in the construction of the platform and jointly expand the European market.
From August 24th to 25th, led by Duan Dawei, Senior Vice President and CFO of iFLYTEK, the delegation of iFLYTEK visited the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME), the oldest engineering institution in Hungary, and the Hungarian-Chinese Bilingual School in Budapest, and discussed technology-enabled cross-language communication with top institutions and Chinese language education institutions engaged in intelligent speech technology research in Hungary. It also donated cross-language learning applications and products such as the global Chinese learning platform user account and iFLYTEK dictionary pen covering 182 countries and regions to Budapest-Chinese Bilingual School, effectively promoting cultural exchanges and technical cooperation.
"Standing tall" to the world
Since the establishment of the internationalization strategy in 2018, iFLYTEK has rapidly deployed overseas business, adhered to the policy of "going out and bringing in", and extensively carried out business cooperation in North America, Central and Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Australia and New Zealand, Southeast Asia, Japan and South Korea, Pan-Russia, the Middle East and other regions, and promoted domestic mature products, technologies and solutions locally, while "introducing" local high-quality and compliant products, projects and technologies.
iFLYTEK went overseas to lay out the European and even global markets, and used science and technology to build a better world, behind the firm belief in artificial intelligence. The industrial ecology determines the future of artificial intelligence, iFLYTEK has always adhered to the fundamental foundation of value creation, continued to condense global ecological partners to form in-depth cooperation at the technical level, built a global technology ecology while promoting industrial landing, and served people around the world with diversified products of artificial intelligence to build a better world.