I was a speaker at a conference they were doing live annotation for. (http://waic2018.com/index-en.html http://waic2018.com/index-en.html) See slide deck here f

I was a speaker at a conference they were doing live annotation for. (http://waic2018.com/index-en.html http://waic2018.com/index-en.html) See slide deck here for proof: https://www.slideshare.net/agibsonccc/world-artificial-intelligence-conference-shanghai-2018 https://www.slideshare.net/agibsonccc/world-artificial-intel... Beyond that, commenting on the translation a bit. They did live translation the first day of WAIC for the headline speakers. There were 2 screens, 1 was baidu and the other was iflytek. Neither were that good on the english side (it was ok..but could barely keep up with the speakers) They claim they are still working on english. The grammar output wasn't coherent. IFlytek itself has some neat hardware they sell that is pretty good. Beyond that, it seems like they are mainly collecting data right now. I would not be surprised they were doing this just for marketing visibility. It is easy to fake. Happy to answer questions about the experience there if people would find it useful.