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iFLYTEK (科大讯飞股份有限公司), a leading Chinese AI company, has developed a comprehensive digital human ecosystem through platforms like iFlytek Zhizuo (xfzhizuo.cn) and its open AI services. These digital humans, or virtual avatars, are powered by advanced speech synthesis, natural language processing, and emotional recognition capabilities. iFLYTEK offers 2D and 3D customizable avatars, voice cloning, and intelligent live-streaming tools for use in education, healthcare, customer service, government, and entertainment. Products like the AI hotline, smart contact centers, and Spark Hyper-Realistic Digital Human integrate multimodal technologies to provide human-like interaction. iFLYTEK has also launched tools for SMEs, such as low-cost virtual presenters and broadcasting solutions, and its digital humans are ranked among China’s top ten brands. With a growing developer community and continued recognition in AI competitions, the company is positioning its digital human technology as a core element of next-generation intelligent interaction across industries.
iFlytek is a major Chinese AI company offering a full-stack digital human platform through its website xfyun.cn (讯飞开放平台 also commonly referred to as 讯飞云). Its virtual human services integrate speech synthesis (TTS), semantic understanding, video synthesis, and character animation to support applications in news broadcasting, government, tourism, finance, and e-commerce. iFlytek’s Spark multimodal model enables real-time interaction using voice and vision, facilitating highly realistic AI-generated hosts for live streaming, customer service, and virtual education. The company also provides customizable digital avatars, allowing users to generate lifelike virtual presenters or brand ambassadors efficiently. Its platform supports multilingual capabilities and includes developer APIs and toolkits for integration into broader AI ecosystems.
“Xingchen Agent Platform” (星辰智能体平台) is iFLYTEK’s (科大讯飞) agent-development and deployment platform positioned for building and operationalizing task-oriented AI agents through prompt- and workflow-based construction, integrating access to models and plugins/tools in a unified environment, and emphasizing end-to-end delivery from interaction to execution; in recent upgrades highlighted in late January 2026 coverage, the platform is described as strengthening multimodal, highly human-like “digital human” interaction (voice plus avatar presentation, including more natural lip-sync, facial expression, and motion) while also enhancing “do-the-work” capability via automation/RPA-style execution so agents can move beyond chat-style responses into completing real business processes, with an official web entry point provided as iFLYTEK’s agent portal.
iFlytek Smart Creation (讯飞智作) is an AI-driven audio and video production platform developed by iFlytek (科大讯飞), China's leading speech technology company, and positioned as a one-stop content creation service operating under the domain peiyin.xunfei.cn. In the context of digital humans, the platform provides the voice and lip-sync infrastructure that underlies many Chinese virtual anchor and synthetic presenter deployments, offering text-to-speech synthesis across a large library of voice styles, AI voiceover production, human face modeling, and lip-sync prediction that maps synthesized speech to animated or photorealistic digital human faces. These capabilities make it a backend enabler for AI virtual anchors (AI虚拟主播) used in broadcast media, e-commerce livestreaming, short-video platforms, and corporate communications, where operators generate on-screen synthetic presenters without human talent. The platform supports both fully synthetic dubbing and hybrid workflows that blend AI-generated voice with human performance, and it has developed a custom voice library service for clients requiring proprietary synthetic voices tied to a specific digital human identity. Widely adopted across media, education, and short-video sectors, iFlytek Smart Creation operates on a freemium model and is consistently cited in Chinese AI tool directories as a foundational utility within the broader AIGC content production stack, sitting at the intersection of speech synthesis and digital human animation rather than functioning as a full-stack digital human platform in its own right.