Artificial intelligence pioneer leverages tech to raise efficiency

A portable translator provides real-time translation in 60 languages. A robot has passed the written test of China's national medical licensing examination. And computer systems assist courts in judging criminal cases and automatically score papers students have spent days writing.

All of these fiction-like gadgets or scenarios are taking place in Hefei, capital of Anhui province, thanks to iFlytek Co Ltd, a Chinese artificial intelligence company. The Shenzhen-listed company is leveraging its years of research in AI-enabled voice interaction to empower traditional sectors to boost efficiency.

Liu Qingfeng, chairman of iFlytek, said such efforts will encourage more third-party hardware and software developers to adopt the company's voice interaction computing platform.