China is forging ahead to rekindle the flame of passion and dream. The world's eagerly awaited Beijing Winter Olympic Games open on February 4, 2022. Looking at this winter Olympic Games, many new technologies applied in athletes’ participation process, audiences’ watching experience and epidemic prevention means, have made amazing appearances and are deeply integrated with the events, adding unique digital intelligence charm to the Winter Olympic Games. From now on, we will jointly explore and record the story of intelligent technology workers helping the Beijing Winter Olympics through the column of CAAI & Winter Olympics. 

"Whether athletes or spectators,as long as they have this portable 'translator',they can communicate with friends from other countries at anytime and anywhere."Chen Zhigang,Deputy Secretary General of CAAI and vice president of iFLYTEK AI Research Institute,introduced while demonstrating with iFLYTEK's dual screen translator, "while open the dual screen, select the other party's language, press and hold the key to speak."

Seconds later, the words he just said has been well translated and showed on the screen.

Athletes,Olympic officials and media reporters from all over the world gathered at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.With the help of artificial intelligence,crossing nationality and barrier free communication can be truly realized.

"We are excited and proud to be able to personally participate in the Winter Olympics and help the Winter Olympics achieve barrier free communication with science and technology." Chen Zhigang said that iFLYTEK started its R & D layout very early around various application scenarios of Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games and Winter Paralympic Games. In September 2019, it became the exclusive supplier of official automatic voice conversion and translation for Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games and winter Paralympic Games; At the same time, it has jointly undertaken the key special project "key supporting technologies and equipment for multilingual service of Winter Olympics" with the University of Science and Technology of China and Shenyang Yayi.

"At the 2022 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games in Beijing, we will provide multilingual intelligent voice and language key technology service platforms to help the Winter Olympic Games and winter Paralympic Games to achieve three types of' communication accessibility '." Duran, senior vice president of iFLYTEK, said, "there is no barrier to communication between people, between people and organizations, and between people and events."

In order to achieve barrier free "human to human communication", iFLYTEK's dual screen translator can support the mutual translation of Chinese and 60 foreign languages, recognize 15 foreign language accents and support 32 foreign languages photo translation. In addition, millions of professional words and industry terms are added for the Winter Olympic events, covering all kinds of sports and referee terms, which can effectively meet the cross language communication needs of athletes, coaches and spectators.

In terms of "communication between people and organizations", iFLYTEK multimedia conference office and information release system supports real-time voice recognition, translation and recording, and forms the recognition and translation results into subtitle projection display, which reduces the dependence on manual translation services and greatly improves the communication efficiency and audio-visual experience of multilingual conferences.

In terms of "communication between people and events", iFLYTEK has developed the Winter Olympic Intelligent Q & A equipment using the new multilingual and multimodal virtual human technology to support the Winter Olympic Knowledge Q & A and information query services. The device interacts through intelligent voice, with high accuracy, and can effectively deal with the problems of complex consultation contents and diverse languages.

"We have used speech recognition, speech synthesis, machine translation and other technologies to participate in the development of applications such as the 'Winter Olympic Link' app, which can not only enable audiences and tourists around the world to grasp the event information in time, but also help the visually impaired 'hear' the Olympic words and help the hearing impaired 'see' the Olympic voice." Chen Zhigang added, "at that time, while the competition results will be translated into multiple languages and displayed on the screen, they will also be broadcast 24 hours a day in the form of virtual anchor."

In order to enable the Winter Olympic virtual volunteer "Aijia" to realize the rapid switching and communication between different languages, iFLYTEK innovatively proposed the technical scheme of "multi-language wake-up free switching and free speaking". Through multi language sharing primitives and combined with the unified language training scheme of various countries, iFLYTEK solved the key problems such as cross language knowledge sharing and language switching, realize free language switching and communication between "Aijia" and multinational personnel on a single device, so that personnel from all countries can experience the charm of "scientific and technological Winter Olympics".

"This will be a truly barrier free Olympic Games. No matter what countries, races, or people with visual and hearing disabilities, they can communicate smoothly and feel the warmth of the Beijing Winter Olympics." Chen Zhigang said, "I believe that in the near future, more Winter Olympics technologies can enter people's daily life and bring more intelligent services."