Best Speech and Voice Recognition Companies in China
The 47 best Speech and Voice Recognition companies in China in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: iFLYTEK.
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Ranked: Best Speech and Voice Recognition companies in China
| # | Company | Last round | Disclosed funding | Stage | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ai Voice Mouse Manufacturer of a voice translation mouse system | — | — | Unfunded | — | Lady Tess Founder | — | — | — |
| 2 | AIHuwen Developer of advanced voice technologies and artificial intelligent (AI) voice chips. | — | — | Private | 50 | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | Beijing Junlin Technology Provider of AI and cloud-based acoustic detection and analysis systems | — | — | Funding Raised | 12 | Wang Qun CEO | — | — | — |
| 4 | Beijing Sound Connect Technology Company Developer of an computational linguistics software in China. | — | — | Acquired | 20 | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | Fineshare Platform offering online AI voice generator | — | — | Unfunded | — | Billy Zane Co-Founder | Node.jsFirebaseElement UI+14 | — | — |
| 6 | IMIO Voice recognition enabled gateways for consumers | — | — | Deadpooled | — | Marvin Co-Founder & COO | — | — | — |
| 7 | Ivo Technologies Provider of intelligent speaker system based on emotion recognition | — | — | Unfunded | — | Su Dan Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 8 | Jixianyuan AI-powered speech recognition, text-to-speech, and multimodal sentiment analysis solutions | — | — | Unfunded | 50 | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 Speech and Voice Recognition companies in China
#1
Series E · Suzhou, Jiangsu · founded 2007 · 981 employees$207.6Mraised▾
Provider of voice and language technology, software, and hardware solutions. The company offers complete human-machine dialogue solutions for various applications. These include software products and intelligent hardware products like chips, modules, and complete devices. The company provides customizable dialogue system development platforms and language calculation models. It serves sectors such as intelligent travel, office, and internet of things.
- Jan 2024Series E$28.1M
- Sep 2020Series E—
- Apr 2020Series E$58M
- Jun 2018Series D$76.5M
#2
Unisound 🦄Public · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2012 · 399 employees$301.9Mraised▾
Unisound is a provider of AI-backed voice solutions for multiple industries. Its core technology is a machine-learning platform that features speech recognition, speech synthesis, voiceprint synthesis, and offline control. The technology has use cases in the areas of robotics, education, healthcare, connected vehicles. and more. Partners include Lenovo, Qualcomm, Haier, and Intel among others.
- Jun 2021Series D—
- Mar 2019Series C—
- Jul 2018Series C$89.3M
- May 2018Series C$100M
#3
Series A · Suzhou, Jiangsu · founded 2020 · 160 employees$7.8Mraised▾
Provider of a haptic and acoustic solution for enterprises. It offers hardware to access, interact, integrate, connect, communicate, manage, and control devices. Its offering includes VR haptic devices, vibrational gaming devices, multi-touch smartphone devices, haptic vehicle devices, medical haptic devices, voice recognition applications, wide-band actuators, and bone conduction sound designs. It also offers services such as technical support and malignances.
- Feb 2023Series A—
- May 2021Angel$7.8M
#4
Series B · Haidian, Beijing · founded 2016 · 50 employees$8.8Mraised▾
Provider of AI-based speech and image-based solutions and services for businesses. Its speech-based offerings include Speech Synthesis for users to communicate with their application naturally, Text To Speech for reading, education, and training, social entertainment, and more, and Speech Recognition for speech-based search, entertainment, and games and entertainment. It offers Image Recognition solutions for use cases in facial identification, robot communication, and more.
- Oct 2022Series B—
- Jul 2020Series A—
- Dec 2018Series A$7.2M
- 2017Seed$1.5M
#5
Public · Hefei, Anhui · founded 1999 · 15046 employees$407Mraised▾
Provider of AI-based speech and language interaction technology. Its features include speech recognition, text to speech, comprehension of natural language, speech evaluation, voiceprint, and handwriting recognition. It caters to multiple dialects and languages, and its translator device supports cross-language communication, subtitling, and offline translation.
- Jul 2019Post IPO$407M
#6
Deadpooled · Haidian, Beijing · founded 2017$14.3Mraised▾
Zhicun Technology provides an AI chip for machine learning applications. Uses Nor Flash's integrated computing chip solution and integrates the storage & calculation of neural network into a single NOR Flash chip. Supports deep learning neural network structures such as MLP, CNN, RNN, and different network sizes. Claims to enable low-power and low-cost chip solutions and have use cases in speech recognition and image processing.
- Aug 2019Series A$14.3M
#7
Series A · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2016 · 50 employees$10Mraised▾
Online adaptive learning platform for schools. Provides tailored learning plans, intelligent voice, intelligent writing evaluation systems, assessments, and intelligent writing correction. Utilizes speech recognition, natural language processing, and AI technology to teach English.
- Mar 2018Series A—
#8
Series A · Beijing, Beijing · founded 2016$10Mraised▾
Moran Cognitive Technology develops natural language recognition and processing technology and solutions that allow people to communicate with machines in a more natural way. It is trying to build a complete language pack of robots, which allows robots to not only hear but also understand the meaning behind the words. Has launched an operator computer interactive communication engine called Mor that can be used in smart homes, smart cars, smart customer services and other Internet-of-Things (IoT) platforms. The company has partnered with Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi Inc. and Nav Info, a mapping service provider, on enhancing their speech processing functions. Founded by Dai Shuaixiang, a former Baidu engineer.
- Jan 2017Series A$10M
#9
Series A · Hong Kong, Hong Kong · founded 2016 · 13 employees$1.5Mraised▾
Provider of AI-powered voiceprint recognition solutions for enterprises. Its core technology comprises speech recognition (which supports voice wake-up and command word recognition in noisy environments) and speech signal processing that supports vocal positioning, far-field pickup, noise reduction, and echo cancellation. Using its core technology as the base, the company has developed products that are applied to scenarios that use voice to determine identity. It has applications in finance, social insurance, government, public safety, and intelligent hardware.
- Sep 2020Series A—
- Feb 2019Seed$1.5M
- 2018Angel—
#10
Seed · Shenzhen, Guangdong Province · founded 2017$1.6Mraised▾
AI-based communication platform for call centers. It provides a solution to connect with the call center system. It includes modules such as cloud communication module, an acoustic preprocessing module to filter phone noise interference, intelligent sentence break, voice rejection, and sub-voice information extraction, CRBT recognition module to identify the state of the phone when the phone is dialed, speech recognition module for the conversion of speech into text, and machine learning module to optimize performance.
- Jun 2018Angel$1.6M
#11
Seed · Haidian, Beijing · founded 2017$906Kraised▾
Lingshui Technology develops artificial intelligence based speech recognition and synthesis solutions. It uses anti-noise and far-field processing technology to improve the quality of speech signal before recognition. The technologies used for speech recognition and synthesis include natural language processing, automatic text normalization, word segmentation, part-of-speech tagging, semantic disambiguation, tone learning algorithm technology, targeted dialogue modeling, etc. The company also develops a microphone array technology that consists of acoustic sensors and are used for noise suppression, reverberation, self-echo cancellation, source direction, and source tracking. Partners include Beijing Join-Cheer Software, Shandong Taiying Technology, Jinshan Cloud, Crust Robotics, Houston Audio, etc.
- Sep 2018Seed—
- Dec 2017Seed$906K
#12
Seed · Jinzhong, Shanxi · founded 2015$1.6Mraised▾
AI-based voice interaction technology, platforms, and hardware products developer. It offers solutions for smart homes and robots. It also offers products and research for multiple applications, as well as optimizing the drug discovery process and delivering medications for pain, cancer, and dementia to patients.
- Oct 2015Angel$1.6M
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Speech and Voice Recognition coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Speech & Audio AI is moving in China
A read on the academic research around Speech & Audio AI — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 7,129 China-affiliated papers.
- Chinese Academy of Sciences249
- Tsinghua University229
- Shanghai Jiao Tong University223
- University of Science and Technology of China196
- Zhejiang University154
- Speech recognition27→1253
- Pattern recognition (psychology)40→1162
- Feature (linguistics)7→521
- Electroencephalography14→478
- Feature extraction6→335
- Speech recognition36→550
- Pattern recognition (psychology)36→507
- Feature (linguistics)4→216
- Convolutional neural network9→173
- Electroencephalography30→184
- Speech recognition3→41
- Word (group theory)1→6
- Artificial neural network1→5
- Context (archaeology)1→4
Where speech ai is researched across China
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Who's filing speech ai patents in China
China speech ai patent filing is accelerating — 1,427 filings from 538 assignees (2016–2025), led by Tencent TECH Shenzhen, Huawei TECH, Baidu Online Network Technology ; annual filings 24→241.
- Tencent TECH Shenzhen242
- Huawei TECH219
- Baidu Online Network Technology 78
- Beijing Zitiao Network Technolog78
- PING AN TECH Shenzhen71
- Beijing Baidu Netcom SCI & TECH53
- Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software40
- Iflytek37
Common questions
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