PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Cheetah
Mobile (NYSE: CMCM), a leading mobile internet company with
global market coverage, announced today that its AI-powered
translation device, CheetahTALK (formerly known as CM Translator)
experienced an unprecedented year of sales growth as the product
received upgrades and became available to the mass market for the
first time. CheetahTALK more than doubled its revenue from April to
December of 2019.
In August of 2019, CheetahTALK, the must-have accessory for
travelers, became available on eCommerce Sites Amazon and B8ta's
online & offline shop. After only a few weeks on Amazon,
CheetahTALK became the best seller in the foreign language
translator category. CheetahTALK was also a top selling gift during
this past holiday season. In December, ABC's Good Morning America
(GMA), the most popular national morning show in the U.S., featured
CheetahTALK on its Deals & Steals segment. The company sold
over 4,000 units in just two hours. The company has sold 300,000
cumulative units to date.
Building on the success of the last few months, Cheetah Mobile
will be bringing CheetahTALK to new markets in the near future,
including Japan and Thailand.
In April 2019 at Microsoft IoT in
the US, CheetahTALK officially launched on the global market. Since
its launch, the product was upgraded from 6 languages to 42 and was
rebranded to CheetahTALK, which more closely aligns with Cheetah
Mobile's suite of products for global consumers.
"2019 was an incredible year for Cheetah Mobile as we continue
to create practical technology products such as CheetahTALK for the
global consumer," said Vincent Li,
director of global marketing at Cheetah Mobile. "As we enter a new
year, we will continue to build on the foundation of Cheetah Mobile
- creating products based on consumers' needs using the best
technology available."
CheetahTALK is powered by AI technology from Microsoft Azure
Cognitive Services, with machine translation and Neural
Text-to-Speech capabilities, as well as Automatic Speech
Recognition from OrionStar. The palm-sized device translates 42
popular languages including English, Spanish, French, Italian,
Chinese, Japanese, Germany and Portuguese, covering more
than 90% of the countries across the world.
CheetahTalk features include:
- Real-time AI Translation, Powered by Microsoft
- One-button Two-way Easy Translation
- One-Press Recording
- Ultra-light and portable, just 1.4 ounces
- 42+ languages and 6 system languages
- 180-days standby time
About Cheetah Mobile Inc.
Cheetah Mobile is a leading mobile Internet company with strong
global vision. It has attracted hundreds of millions of monthly
active users through its mobile utility products such as Clean
Master and Cheetah Keyboard, casual games such as Piano Tiles 2,
and live streaming product Live.me. The Company provides its
advertising customers, which include direct advertisers and mobile
advertising networks through which advertisers place their
advertisements, with direct access to highly targeted mobile users
and global promotional channels. The Company also provides
value-added services to its mobile application users through the
sale of in-app virtual items on select mobile products and games.
Cheetah Mobile is committed to leveraging its cutting-edge
artificial intelligence technologies to power its products and make
the world smarter. It has been listed on the New York Stock
Exchange since May 2014.
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SOURCE Cheetah Mobile Inc