In the China AI Development Report for 2020 and the AI Open Index, 10 cities were listed among the world"s top 100 cities by artificial intelligence innovation power.

Hefei, capital of Anhui province, ranked fourth among all the Chinese cities listed and third among those on the Chinese mainland.

Since 2013, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Anhui Provincial Government have been developing China Speech Valley, a high-tech industrial park, into a major hub for the AI industry.

In the facility, located in the Hefei National High-tech Industry Development Zone, the human voice is bearing new technological fruit for use in daily life.

The products range from robots used for a range of purposes to computer mice with convenient speech input functions－for Mandarin, English and even some Chinese dialects－to various wearable smart devices.

In addition, more than 1,000 companies are working in the facility, aiming to grab a slice of the country"s huge AI development market.