The founding ceremony for Shanxi iFLYTEK Artificial Intelligence Technology Co is held in Taiyuan, Sept 27. [Photo/Taiyuan Daily]

The founding ceremony for Shanxi iFLYTEK Artificial Intelligence Technology Co took place in Taiyuan, capital of North China's Shanxi province, on Sept 27. 

It marked the establishment of the Shanxi regional headquarters of iFLYTEK Corp, a leading Chinese enterprise in intelligent speech and AI, in Taiyuan. 

The corporation boasts cutting-edge core technologies in speech recognition, speech synthesis, machine translation, image and text recognition, and image understanding. 

The regional headquarters will help Taiyuan extend its AI industrial chain and accelerate the development of the digital economy. 

According to the cooperation agreement signed between the Taiyuan government and the corporation that same day, Shanxi iFLYTEK Artificial Intelligence Technology Co will focus on the construction of an application demonstration area for AI-based industries and support the integrated development of AI industries and applications in the city.