On September 27, 2018, American local time, Fluent English, a leading ai-driven education technology company in China, was officially listed on the New York Stock Exchange. With its original education 3.0 mode, fluent English became the first stock of “AI+ education” in China.
Intelligent breakthrough in education 3.0 era
With the development of mobile Internet, the education industry has developed from the “Education 1.0” era of offline traditional classroom to the “education 2.0” era of online distance education. Although compared with traditional offline education, online education breaks through the limitations of time and region and meets all the fragmented learning needs of users, problems still exist in the education classrooms with “real teachers” as the core, such as high cost of courses, difficult control of learning efficiency and unequal quality of teachers.
Take English as an example, the boom of Chinese people learning English has spawned the emergence of many English offline and online training institutions, but even though it costs a lot of money and thousands of hours of professional foreign teachers’ training, there are still many people who cannot carry on English conversations.
The accelerated development of artificial intelligence technology has brought education to the era of “Education 3.0”. Aiming at problem in present English teaching advanced a series of difficulties, poor pronunciation, learning cost, by Princeton university Dr. Wang Yi and Dr Hu philosopher, Lin Hui founded in 2012, a new online English learning applications – “fluent English says” was born, pioneering the independent research and development of artificial intelligence technology can assign teaching track, To provide users with customized and efficient learning experience, breaking through the bottleneck of traditional education and opening a new chapter of “AI+ education”.
Artificial intelligence replaces human teachers
High quality teaching level and real-time teaching feedback are the key factors to improve classroom efficiency. When students and teachers are separated from each other on screens, there is bound to be a lack of communication and feedback. Based on mobile terminals, Fluent English teachers independently developed by artificial intelligence can be online 24 hours a day and serve tens of thousands of students at the same time.
Fluent Speaking’s deep learn-based speech recognition and scoring engine provides personalized, adaptive learning courses for each user. AI teachers will evaluate users’ pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, fluency, etc., and give corresponding marks and scores in real time according to the pronunciation, tone and sentence breaking of words. Create a learning plan for each user by predicting how they will perform in different Settings to truly “teach according to their aptitude.” AI teachers can not only help students improve their English level efficiently, but also are not expensive and can be easily owned by everyone.
Practice speaking like a game
After all, oral practice is a course, users are likely to give up and quit. In order to motivate users to clock in every day, Fluent Speaking has added a level unlocking and social elements, which are gradually increased in difficulty from low to high. In addition, it also covers a number of thematic dialogue scenes such as playing the workplace, travel, daily necessities, etc., to improve users’ interest in oral practice.
Under the advanced education mode of “AI+ Mobile Internet”, Fluent Speaking has become a leading English learning App and an active language learning community in China. It has been awarded as “App Store Essence” and “2013 Selected App” by Apple. It is the only Chinese education company listed on CB Insights’ 2018 World’s 100 Most Promising AI Companies list.
Massive teaching data placed in the cloud
As of June 30, 2018, Fluent Has accumulated more than 83.8 million registered users and 7.2 million monthly active visitors worldwide, becoming an active English learning community. The all-embracing oral training materials are updated daily, and each video is equipped with AI teacher’s explanation of knowledge points, so users can watch, learn and speak at any time and anywhere.
Based on qiuniu Cloud object storage service, Fluent Language’s massive audio, video and picture materials are safely and stably stored in the cloud with ultra-high availability. Storage requirements can be flexibly scaled, enabling Fluent to increase the number of courses on demand and improve service flexibility. Fluent Speaking now covers 175 countries and 384 cities in China. Qiliuyun fusion CDN accelerates the optimization of the data network and provides stable and fast network access quality for English learning users around the world with extensive node coverage.
Speaking of the founding intention, Yi Wang, CEO of Fluent English, once said: “Everyone has the right to receive English education”. The development momentum of “AI+ education” continues to grow. As a pioneer in the industry, Fluent English has explored a new model of English teaching, reducing the dependence of traditional education on professional teachers, and using artificial intelligence technology to help users improve their oral English in a personalized and efficient way. As a leading cloud service provider in China, Qiuniuyun has been providing excellent services for Fluent English since 2013 in terms of object storage, content distribution and other technologies, ensuring the smooth operation of its online courses and helping to create the ultimate fluent English learning experience for users.
