About AIChinese

The history of AIChinese
  • Powered by the state-of-art speech recognition and tone analysis technologies, AIChinese.com is a unique interactive online platform to learn spoken Mandarin Chinese.
  • AIChinese originates from a program named "NewPepper". "NewPepper" is a desktop program helping learners to pronounce accurate Mandarin Chinese. Since NewPepper's launch, there have been thousands of active users. Students like this as the program is effective in correcting Mandarin Chinese pronunciation. The program is widely recognised while we have collected many constructive suggestions. As a result, NewPepper has had four major version upgrades, aiming at stability, accuracy, good quality and easy-to-use user experience.
  • AIChinese, integrating NewPepper's successful speech assessment technologies, now provides an online Chinese learning platform. Users will have access to the service of intelligent pronunciation evaluation and personalised instructions and feedbacks. User will also have access to Chinese character stroke and hand writing exercises. In the short future, we are promoting dialogue, recitation, role playing and many other exercising activities to enrich users' learning journey.
  • At the time of release of AIChinese, there are teaching contents covering Basic Chinese Book 1 and 2. Premium ChinesePod user can access their ChinesePod materials while experiencing all the spoken Mandarin Chinese exercise features that AIChinese provides. We are adding Travel Chinese and Business Chinese two serials. Moreover, every learner can enjoy the maximum learning freedom with AIChinese in that, a user is free to edit and share his/her own learning contents.
  • Our goal is to build a free, open and effective Chinese learning platform, which help learners to speak ACCURATE Mandarin Chinese. As we are committed to make a great product, we value any suggestion and advices. Please feel free to contact us.
Why study with AIChinese
  • 1) Customise: build up your own syllabus

    You can now construct the lists of words, phrases and sentences you would like to learn. The system provides tools for you to build the lists based on:

    -Aims of study : should you want to learn Travel Chinese, Daily Chinese, Business Chinese, etc.

    -Your books : want to work alongside with your favorite books? Couldn’t find the book in our list? Send the names over and we will make it available!

    -Topic : simply interested in a specific topic recently? In Panda, or the Shanghai WorldExpo? Search for it and go to it!

    -Areas to improve : want to improve your performance with the 2nd tone, but get bored with the same words all the time? Build a list of words of the 2nd tone and add it to your vocabulary at the same time. Want to improve in Ji Qi Xi? Build the list and start working on them!

  • 2) Practice: start building up your vocabulary

    -No embarrassment : speak out with your computer whenever you want and start practicing without worrying the mistakes and embarrassment when you speak in classes.

    -Get instructions : speak into microphone and AI Speech state-of-the-art speech technology will give the accurate and detailed assessment on your pronunciation!

    -Speak with right tones : not able to differentiate different tones by listening? Never mind. The unique tone curve drawing technique would help you see the differences. Better than that, thousands have proved that by practicing with this method, you can quickly link the pronunciation process to the actual tone curve formation, thus master the tones fast!

  • 3) Use the new words: speak with phrases and sentences

    -Learn with the essentials : nouns in Chinese always need measure words? How to express the different forms of tenses while there is no tense with Chinese verbs? Don’t worry. With AIChinese, you learn all these immediately after the new words.

    -Learn the actual use : you learn a language to use it. That’s why at AIChinese, you learn sentences/phrases immediately after the words. Don’t worry if you don’t know all of the characters. You will build these up naturally.

  • 4) Review your progress: plan and enjoy the journey of picking up one of the most beautiful languages in the world
About AI Speech Ltd

  • AI Speech Ltd is the world’s leading speech analysis technology company dedicated in language learning, especially in Chinese and English. AI Speech aims to partner with publishers and language e-learning providers to develop and market innovative, interactive and intelligent software applications incorporating advanced speech technology for spoken Chinese learning.

  • Ever since 2007, AI Speech has established partnership and collaborations with many publishers and organizations, such as ChinesePod (Praxis Language), Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, and Lexus. Please feel free to get in touch with our business development team and discuss your specific needs in speech-enabled language learning solutions.