iFlyTek Open Platform Speech

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.