Chinese AI giant iFlytek Wednesday announced a plan to work with China International Publishing Group (CIPG) to build a national translation platform based on its AI technologies.

 

中国AI巨头科大讯飞周三宣布，计划与中国国际出版集团合作建立一个基于AI技术的国家级翻译平台。

 

Specializing in machine translation, iFlytek has been providing real-time Chinese-to-English translation and interpretation¹ services for government organizations and companies both in China and abroad.

 

"The latest machine can translate Chinese to 33 languages. Our technologies in voice recognition, machine translation, and voice synthesis are leading in the world," said Liu Qingfeng, president of iFlytek.

 

According to Fang² Zhenghui, the deputy director of CIPG, AI translation devices can lift the heavy burden off human translators.

 

Human translators can barely meet the ever-growing translation needs of government departments and Party offices at all levels and Chinese enterprises operating abroad, said Fang.

 

In the future AI translation platform, CIPG will open its corpus and database to iFlytek so as to improve the accuracy of machine translation.

 

Another human-machine cooperative translation platform will be mainly applied³ in publishing and international conferences.

 

"When translation machines fail to recognize some special nouns or specific terms, human translators can monitor the process and help to polish the text. The machine learn from these mistakes and improve its work next time," Liu said.

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