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iFlytek Releases Spark X2.6 and Speech Foundation Model SparkAudio 1.0
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During the 2026 Global 1024 Developer Festival, iFlytek released the device-cloud integrated iFlytek Spark X2.6 and the Spark speech foundation model SparkAudio 1.0. The cloud and on-device capabilities of Spark X2.6 (Spark X2.6-4B on-device) were improved simultaneously; iFlytek says that through division of labor and coordination between cloud and device, it balances task performance, security and cost; iFlytek also predicts that in the future 60% of applications can be completed locally, 30% through cloud-device collaboration, and 10% will need to be solved by cloud large models. SparkAudio 1.0 was trained on fully domestic computing power and supports dual-modal text and speech input with text output; it can perform speech transcription, multilingual translation, multi-dialect recognition, environmental sound recognition, speaker separation, sentiment analysis and complex audio question answering. According to Zhidongxi, Spark-LiveTranslation will subsequently be gradually launched on iFlytek Hearing and iFlytek AI Glasses.
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- iFlytek Releases SparkAudio 1.0 Speech Foundation Model
During its 2026 Global 1024 Developer Festival, iFlytek released SparkAudio 1.0, a speech foundation model trained entirely on domestic compute. It supports text and speech dual-modal input with text output, and can perform speech transcription, multilingual translation, multi-dialect recognition, environmental sound recognition, speaker separation, sentiment analysis, and complex audio question answering.
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- iFlytek releases end-cloud integrated Spark X2.6, trained entirely on domestic compute
At the 2026 Global 1024 Developer Festival, iFlytek released the end-cloud integrated Spark X2.6, which pairs a cloud large model with a 4B on-device model and decides whether to run locally, collaboratively, or in the cloud based on task difficulty and data sensitivity; it is trained entirely on domestic compute.
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- iFlytek releases device-cloud integrated Spark X2.6 and speech foundation model SparkAudio 1.0
On October 22, at the main forum of the 2026 iFlytek Global 1024 Developer Festival, the device-cloud integrated iFlytek Spark X2.6 was released, with capabilities on both the cloud and device sides (Spark X2.6-4B) improved in sync, balancing task performance, security, and cost through precise division of labor and on-demand collaboration.
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