iFlyTek Open Platform Speech

by iFlyTek

Don’t want to wire up the iFlyTek Open Platform Speech API? Drop the file here.

The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free: a recording up to 20 minutes transcribes in full, a longer one is previewed, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, and credits never expire.

iFlyTek's market-leading Mandarin ASR family for enterprise and education.

API  ·  tiered per-day call quotas

TL;DR

Best for mandarin-first products needing the historically strongest Chinese WER, especially with accents and dialects. Pricing: tiered per-day call quotas (RMB).

Category
Transcription APIs
Pricing
tiered per-day call quotas (RMB)
Platforms
API

What it is

iFlyTek's Open Platform (xfyun.cn) is one of China's longest-running ASR vendors with deep specialization in Mandarin, regional dialects, and education-domain content (classroom lecture transcription, oral evaluation). It exposes short-audio, streaming, long-audio, real-time transcription, and bilingual recognition endpoints. iFlyTek is widely deployed in Chinese government, education, and enterprise contracts. International buyers should evaluate export-control and sanctions exposure before adopting. Best fit: mandarin-first products needing the historically strongest chinese wer, especially with accents and dialects. Caveats: chinese-first console and docs; international sdk access is restricted; export-control exposure (entity-listed in some jurisdictions). Pricing as listed: tiered per-day call quotas (RMB). Feature flags from vendor docs: speaker diarization, word-level timestamps, streaming. Directory tags: commercial-api, regional-asia. Last vendor-page check: 2026-05-12.

Best for: Mandarin-first products needing the historically strongest Chinese WER, especially with accents and dialects.
Watch out for: Chinese-first console and docs; international SDK access is restricted; export-control exposure (entity-listed in some jurisdictions).

Install / use

iFlyTek WebAPI / WebSocket (APPID + APIKey)

What people actually do with iFlyTek Open Platform Speech-style transcription

The tool is the means. These are the jobs — each one priced at published rates, each one wired up on its own page.

Wire it into Make.comGoogle DriveEmergentNotionYouTubeAmazon S3

Features

Speaker diarizationYes
Word-level timestampsYes
Streaming / real-timeYes
Languages supportedNone
HIPAA eligibleNo

iFlyTek Open Platform Speech vs Whipscribe

FeatureiFlyTek Open Platform SpeechWhipscribe
CategoryTranscription APIsTranscription APIs
PricingNot verified$6–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · first 20 minutes free
Speaker identificationNot verifiedNamed in the summary, key quotes and chapters
Word timestampsNot verifiedYes
StreamingNot verifiedNo
Languages—99
PlatformsAPIWeb, API, MCP

Alternatives to iFlyTek Open Platform Speech

Frequently asked about iFlyTek Open Platform Speech

How much does iFlyTek Open Platform Speech cost?

iFlyTek Open Platform Speech is a paid product — published pricing: tiered per-day call quotas (RMB). Pricing changes; verify on the vendor's own page before budgeting.

What platforms does iFlyTek Open Platform Speech support?

iFlyTek Open Platform Speech is an API — you call it from whatever you build, on any platform with an HTTP client.

How do I get started with iFlyTek Open Platform Speech?

iFlyTek Open Platform Speech is used through its API: get a key from the vendor, then call it from your own code. There is no desktop app to install.

What are the limitations of iFlyTek Open Platform Speech?

Chinese-first console and docs; international SDK access is restricted; export-control exposure (entity-listed in some jurisdictions).

Who is iFlyTek Open Platform Speech best for?

Mandarin-first products needing the historically strongest Chinese WER, especially with accents and dialects.

Is iFlyTek Open Platform Speech open source?

No. iFlyTek Open Platform Speech is a proprietary API. If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.

What kind of tool is iFlyTek Open Platform Speech?

In this directory iFlyTek Open Platform Speech is filed under commercial api, regional asia as a API.

What are the alternatives to iFlyTek Open Platform Speech?

There is a side-by-side page at /tools/iflytek-asr-alternatives comparing iFlyTek Open Platform Speech with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.

Can I automate iFlyTek Open Platform Speech-style transcription without running it myself?

Yes. If what you want is transcripts rather than the tool itself, Whipscribe does the same job as a hosted API: submit a file or URL, poll a job id, pull the result as txt, json, srt, vtt or docx. $0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. The automation recipes on this site show it wired to Drive folders, Zoom recordings, S3 buckets and no-code platforms.

How is Whipscribe different from iFlyTek Open Platform Speech?

iFlyTek Open Platform Speech is another vendor's product; Whipscribe is a per-minute transcription service. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and never used for training, and every job returns five formats plus an AI summary, quotes and topics. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export.

What does transcription cost if I use Whipscribe instead of iFlyTek Open Platform Speech?

$0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. There is no subscription and no monthly minimum: a 3-hour recording is about $2.16, a thousand-hour archive is about $720 once. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, so you can see what your recording holds before paying anything.

Where is the iFlyTek Open Platform Speech category heading?

Three things are moving across the whole speech-to-text market right now: summaries, action items and speaker insights generated on top of the transcript rather than sold separately; private, secured deployment where the audio never leaves a boundary you control; and agent access — transcription exposed as a tool that Claude, Cursor or a workflow runner can call directly. Whipscribe ships all three today: per-job insights, our own servers, and an MCP server.

Whipscribe is a hosted transcription service. If you want transcripts without running infrastructure, paste a URL or drop a file in the form below — you'll have a transcript in seconds.

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