Liu Qingfeng (born 26 March 1973, zh, 刘庆峰), Tongcheng, Anhui, China, is a Chinese entrepreneur and AI scientist, best known as the founder and chairman of

iFLYTEK iFlytek (), styled as iFLYTEK, is a partially state-owned Chinese information technology company established in 1999. It creates voice recognition software and 10+ voice-based internet/mobile products covering education, communication, music, i ...

, a global leader in speech recognition and artificial intelligence.

Career

As a doctoral student at USTC, Liu pioneered China's first Mandarin speech synthesis system in 1998, achieving naturalness scores exceeding 4.0/5.0 in MOS testing. This breakthrough led to the founding of

in 1999 with his research team, commercializing speech technologies under China's

863 Program The 863 program () or State High-Tech Development Plan () was a program funded and administered by the government of the People's Republic of China intended to stimulate the development of advanced technologies in a wide range of fields for th ...

. Under Liu's leadership, iFLYTEK launched the world's first real-time speech-to-text engine for Mandarin in 2003 and developed the Xunfei Superbrain AI platform in 2014. The company listed on

Shenzhen Stock Exchange The Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE; ) is a stock exchange based in the city of Shenzhen, in the People's Republic of China. It is one of three stock exchanges operating independently in Mainland China, the others being the Beijing Stock Excha ...

in 2008 (SZSE: 002230), reaching a market cap of $14 billion by 2023. Liu advises China's AI development plans, co-authoring the “Next-Generation AI Development Plan”in 2017 and promoting ethical AI guidelines at the UN AI for Good Summit in 2021.

Recognition

* National Science and Technology Progress Award (2003, 2011) * ''

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s “Global 50 Smartest Companies” (2017) * Chair of ACL Asia Chapter (2019–2021)

References

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