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On October 22, 2026, iFlytek debuted the Spark speech foundation model SparkAudio 1.0 at the main forum of the 2026 Global 1024 Developer Festival. According to content released by Chairman Liu Qingfeng, the model covers speech recognition, simultaneous interpretation, audio understanding, emotion recognition, real-time speaker separation, and ambient sound understanding; related speech recognition tests show an overall effect improvement of 20%, a 15% reduction in response time, and a 60% reduction in cost. The model has been launched in products such as iFlytek Input Method 16.0, iFlytek Hearing, iFlytek Smart Office Book, and iFlytek Translator, supporting arbitrary switching between Chinese and English and real-time speaker recognition. At the same event, the iFlytek AI Recording Ring was also released, equipped with a 4+1 ring microphone array and Wi-Fi 6 transmission, claimed to have a comprehensive recognition accuracy of over 96%, and transcribing 2 hours of recording in only 2 minutes. There is currently no further factual progress after the release of this model.
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Oct 23
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iFlytek releases SparkAudio 1.0 speech large model and Robot Super Brain Platform V3.0
At the main forum of the 2026 iFlytek Global 1024 Developer Festival, Chairman Liu Qingfeng released the SparkAudio 1.0 speech foundation large model, multimodal interaction technology and Spark embodied multimodal interaction technology, and launched the Robot Super Brain Platform V3.0. SparkAudio 1.0 covers speech recognition, simultaneous interpretation, audio understanding, emotion recognition, real-time speaker separation and environmental sound understanding; related speech recognition tests show an overall effect improvement of 20%, a 15% reduction in response time and a 60% cost reduction, and it has been launched in products such as iFlytek Input Method 16.0, iFlytek Hearing and iFlytek Smart Office Book. The event also released the iFlytek AI Recording Ring, which transcribes 2 hours of recording in just 2 minutes, with comprehensive recognition accuracy exceeding 96%.
Oct 22
Phoenix Technology
iFlytek releases the iFlytek Spark X2.6 cloud-device integrated large model
iFlytek releases the iFlytek Spark X2.6 cloud-device integrated large model, completing a capability upgrade based on fully domestic computing power. It includes the cloud-side 293-A30B model and the on-device X2.6-4B model, the latter of which has been open-sourced. The cloud model supports a one-million-token context, with an input price of 0.9 yuan per million tokens and an output price of 3.6 yuan per million tokens. iFlytek says its cloud-device routing accuracy has risen from 81.2% to 96.1%, and the inference efficiency of the domestic Feixing-2 chip has reached 4.5 times that before optimization.
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iFlytek releases cloud-device integrated Spark X2.6 and on-device Spark X2.6-4B
On October 22, iFlytek released the cloud-device integrated iFlytek Spark X2.6 at the 1024 Developer Festival, and simultaneously launched the on-device model Spark X2.6-4B; the system routes tasks to pure on-device, pure cloud, or cloud-device collaborative execution. Spark X2.6 uses a MoE architecture with 293B total parameters and 30B activated parameters, with the context window expanded to 1 million Tokens. The official website shows X2.6 at a limited-time 40% discount, with input and output prices of 0.9 yuan and 3.6 yuan per million Tokens, respectively. Liu Qingfeng expects that in the future about 60% of scenarios can be completed on-device, 30% will use cloud-device collaboration, and 10% will require cloud large models. The company says the share of tasks that can be completed independently on-device has risen from 12.8% to more than 40%.
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iFlytek Releases SparkAudio 1.0, a Spark Speech Foundation Model
At the 1024 Developer Festival, iFlytek announced the debut of SparkAudio 1.0, a Spark speech foundation model that integrates capabilities such as machine translation, speech recognition, and semantic understanding, and claims outstanding performance in real-time speaker separation, environmental understanding, audio understanding, and emotion recognition. The model has been fully launched in iFlytek Input Method 16.0, iFlytek Hearing, iFlytek Office Notebook, and iFlytek Translator, supporting arbitrary switching between Chinese and English and real-time speaker recognition. iFlytek also released the iFlytek AI Recording Ring, equipped with a 4 + 1 ring microphone array and Wi-Fi 6 transmission, claiming a comprehensive recognition accuracy rate of over 96% and that transcribing 2 hours of recording takes only 2 minutes.
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