It is a unicorn startup[1] specialising in speech recognition and artificial intelligence services applicable to a variety of industries.

[3] In 2018 Unisound raised US$100 million from the China Electronics Health Fund.

[4] Unisound has been involved in academic research relating to voice recognition technologies and acoustic modelling powered by deep neural networks.

[3][5] In 2018, Unisound developed their product Swift which they described as the first AIoT chip due to its combination of AI and IoT technologies.

[6] The development of Swift was accelerated due to strategic collaborations with Baidu and IngDan (硬蛋), a subsidiary of the Cogobuy Group.