iFlytek (科大讯飞) was founded in 1999 and has spent that whole time on core artificial-intelligence research — its stated mission is to make machines listen, speak, understand and think. Its wholly owned Beijing subsidiary was set up in Haidian district in 2011, and the Beijing AI Experience Hall — the company's AI exhibition hall in the capital — sits inside the iFlytek Building at No. 7, Northeast Wang West Road, in Shangdi Software Park. The hall is a Beijing municipal science-popularisation base and one of the first members of Haidian's 'city of science museums' network. A visit runs about two hours — showroom tour plus a meeting-room briefing — and the hall is open 08:30–17:30 on weekdays.

The two parts of a visit

1 — Exhibition-hall tour and hands-on product experience. A guide walks the group through iFlytek's 'platform + tracks' strategy, then through the products built on it: the open platform, iFlytek Tingjian, smart education, smart automotive, smart home, smart healthcare and smart city.

2 — Themed seminar and exchange. In the meeting room, researchers from iFlytek's institute and industry lecturers run a focused artificial-intelligence session: how the industry developed and the core, frontier technologies behind it. Then the floor opens — questions, discussion and what AI actually changes when it lands in a real industry.

How the two hours are split

The standard programme runs about 120 minutes: roughly 80 minutes walking the showroom floor, then around 40 minutes in the meeting room for the seminar, which includes a Q&A slot. The seminar topic is customised to the group rather than fixed.

Stop 1 — Where iFlytek came from

iFlytek is the first Chinese technology company founded by students to go on and list publicly. Its guiding line is 'technology reaching the sky, applications standing on the ground'. The milestones on the wall run from speech synthesis and recognition — teaching machines to listen and speak — to cognitive intelligence: machine translation and natural-language understanding that let a machine understand and reason.

Stop 2 — Live speech recognition: iFlytek Tingjian

Tingjian (讯飞听见) turns speech into text in real time and translates across languages. It is used by institutions including the general offices of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, the Supreme People's Procuratorate and the Supreme People's Court. In real meetings, transcription accuracy reaches above 98%, with domain-term recognition and speaker separation. On the floor you speak into a microphone and watch the text appear — and switch translation on.

Stop 3 — Consumer hardware

The translator, the smart recording pen, the smart notebook and the earbuds. The translator does real-time two-way translation and works offline; the pen produces a transcript while it records; the notebook combines handwriting with voice transcription; the earbuds transcribe calls and take voice commands.

Stop 4 — Spark, hands on

The Spark cognitive model covers language understanding, text generation, mathematical reasoning, coding and multimodal recognition. Two demos matter here: iFlytek Zhiwen builds a complete, structured slide deck from a topic or a few keywords, and the Spark app clones a voice — read a passage aloud and it produces synthetic speech that sounds like you. Visitors talk to Spark directly on the floor.

Stop 5 — Healthcare

The iFlytek medical assistant has studied medical textbooks, clinical guidelines and case data, and supports doctors with diagnostic suggestions and medication references during consultation. On the personal-health side there are hearing aids with intelligent noise reduction and scene recognition, which you can try on, and the Xiaoyi app, which answers health questions, manages medication reminders and interprets test reports.

Stop 6 — Education

Spoken-English assessment, automated essay marking and smart classrooms, tied together by learner profiles that make tutoring targeted rather than uniform. The technology is deployed in more than 60,000 schools across China.

Stop 7 — Industry, law and government

On the industrial side: equipment failure prediction, quality inspection and production-safety monitoring. In law: a smart courtroom system that transcribes proceedings in real time and drafts a standardised record. Beyond that, smart city and smart government programmes.

Stop 8 — The open platform

Opened in 2010, the platform exposes speech recognition, image recognition and natural-language processing to developers. Several million developer teams have built on it across finance, justice, retail and logistics. A wall screen shows live call volume and a map of where those developers are.

Stop 9 — The themed seminar

Back in the meeting room for the closing session, roughly 40 minutes including discussion. Researchers from iFlytek's institute and industry lecturers cover the development of the AI industry and the technologies driving it, then open the floor. Topics are matched to the group — AI history and future trends, AI and smart elderly care, or a sector-specific version on request.

Where it is, and what it pairs with

The hall is in the iFlytek Building, No. 7 Northeast Wang West Road, Shangdi Software Park, Haidian district, Beijing — open 08:30–17:30 on weekdays, about two hours end to end. It fits naturally inside a wider Beijing programme alongside JD's logistics robotics, Kuaishou's Kling generative-AI video and DiDi's mobility operation.

Questions delegations ask before they go

Do we need to be an AI company? No. The hall works for associations, chambers, education groups and corporate teams alike, and the seminar topic is matched to your sector.

Is the visit in English? Yes. English interpretation on site is part of how the programme is run.

How long does it take? Around two hours — the exhibition-hall walk plus a roughly 40-minute seminar with time for questions.

Can we shape the seminar? Yes. AI history and future trends, AI and smart elderly care, or a sector-specific version — tell us your focus and we build the session around it.

Arranging your iFlytek Beijing visit

We arrange the visit for you end to end: the introduction to the host, the scheduling on the Chinese side and English interpretation on site. Tell us your dates, your delegation size and what you want to see, and we will confirm what can be arranged. Start at chinatechvisits.com/company-visits.