Core technologies and key modules are being developed by National Intelligent Voice Innovation Center. The facility is in Hefei National High-tech Industry Development Zone – located in Hefei, capital of East China's Anhui province – and it's understood that these advancements are playing a significant role in many top products in the energy field.

The instant appeal of this acoustic imager is palpable. It was developed by the National Intelligent Voice Innovation Center and tech group iFlytek. [Photo/WeChat ID: hefeigaoxinfabu]

One product that has grabbed widespread attention is an acoustic imager developed by the center and artificial intelligence company pioneer iFlytek.

Compared with traditional detection solutions, acoustic imaging technology is said to boast high accuracy and efficiency and has been applied to a variety of fixed, handheld and mobile devices.

This has helped to achieve real-time process monitoring, inspections and other processes to avoid toxic gas leakage, among other things.

Another surefire winner is AI company Zhongkehaoyin Co Ltd's online monitoring device. The company moved to the National Intelligent Voice Innovation Center in January 2019 and its products, such as the AI-Voice Cmfmc 3.0 engine, are said to have made some remarkable achievements.

This monitoring device being offered by Zhongkehaoyin Co Ltd can determine the cause of a fault and send warnings, ensuring greater safety and stability of industrial equipment. [Photo/WeChat ID: hefeigaoxinfabu]

"The way we perceive the world mainly relies on vision and hearing," said company co-founder Xu Quan.

"If we look through our eyes alone, we can only see whether there are cracks in the appearance of equipment and the operating state inside the equipment is invisible through vision," he added.

"We now monitor the equipment by collecting sound, which is equivalent to predicting the operations status of the equipment from one more dimension," Xu said.