Yin Bo, Director of Research, obtained his master degree in Signal and Information System from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). Since joining the USTC Human-Machine Speech Communication Lab in 1997, he has applied himself to text analysis research in Chinese Text-to-Speech technology. He proposed a groundbreaking hierarchy analysis-processing model for Chinese TTS systems. The KD2000 Chinese TTS system, which is based on the hierarchy analysis-processing model, has proved to be "world leading". He has headed the iFLYTEK Research Center since 1999.

Wu Xiaoru, Deputy Director of Research, Research Manager, holds an Electrical Engineering and Information Science PhD from USTC. He presided over the research of text pre-processing in our KD2000 system. In our KD2000 Chinese-English synthesis system, he is responsible for the English processing model. His papers Detection of Sound Signal under Strong Background Noise and Special Text Processing Based on External Descriptor Rule (ICSLP 2000) were highly praised. He is now engaged in multilingual synthesis technology research.

Hu Yu, Research Manager, is a PhD student of Signal and Information Processing. Since 1997, he has been engaged in Chinese phonetic database, speech analysis and speech synthesis research. He possesses a firm theory foundation and rich experience in Chinese TTS systems and multi-model human-machine interactions. He also manages the Fundamental R & D Department.

Huang Haibing,Research Manager, holds an Electrical Engineering and Information Science degree. He was once famous for being the master of the hacker’s board and multimedia board on USTC BBS. His research is on TTS applications in hardware devices, mostly mobile and hand-held devices. He manages the Embedded Products Department.

Hu Guoping, Research Manager, holds a computer science degree from USTC. He has been focusing on text analysis for speech synthesis since 1999. He has completed thorough research on word-segmentation, Chinese lexicon compilation, text normalization, Part-of-Speech tagging, unregistered word recognition, polyphone disambiguation, intonational phrase prediction, syntactic parsing, and document classification. He has also finished some research work on AI and KDD. He has published???? 7 papers in the text analysis area. He is now working on stress detection and prediction, Mandarin-Cantonese translation, and intonational phrase prediction.