CI Tech (CEO Kim Dae-young) has won a world-renowned international artificial intelligence competition, gaining recognition for independently securing the core technology for its AI healthcare business currently under development.
CI Tech took first place overall at the CLIP (Cadenza Lyric Intelligibility Prediction) Challenge, organized by the 2026 IEEE ICASSP (International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing), ranking highest among 27 systems submitted by 22 teams.
This competition is an internationally authoritative contest that evaluates “speech- and hearing-based intelligibility prediction technology” and is used as an indicator to measure competitiveness in speech- and hearing-based AI technology overall.
The “speech- and hearing-based intelligibility prediction technology” that CI Tech demonstrated in this competition will serve as the core engine of a healthcare platform that quantifies and monitors a patient’s health status using speech and auditory signals. This technology goes beyond simple sound-source analysis and requires sophisticated AI prediction capabilities that take into account the actual cognitive characteristics of listeners, making it an essential technology for use in the healthcare sector.
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By winning the competition with a core algorithm developed entirely with its own technology, CI Tech clearly demonstrated that it can independently implement advanced auditory and speech recognition AI technology without relying on external solutions.
This achievement is of significant industrial importance in that the company has advanced beyond its existing capabilities centered on audio and acoustic devices to secure a core competency for future healthcare: “AI technology that quantitatively understands and predicts the state of human vital signs.”
CI Tech plans to officially present these research results at the ICASSP 2026 academic conference to be held in Barcelona, Spain, in May 2026, and is developing technology that extends the newly secured technology beyond speech and auditory cognition to the analysis of biometric vital signs.
Choi Yong-seok
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