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Intelligent Speech Interaction:Create hotwords on the console

Last Updated:Oct 28, 2026

Upload custom hotwords in the Intelligent Speech Interaction console and apply them to a project to improve recognition accuracy for person names, place names, and business-specific terms.

Prerequisites

Activate Intelligent Speech Interaction and create a project. For instructions, see Quick start.

Hotword categories

Hotwords have the following two categories. Each category supports up to 10 groups. Person names and place names share the name-based quota.

  • Name-based: Person names or place names. A hotword file can contain person names or place names, but not both.

  • Business-specific: Terms specific to a business domain. A file can contain different types of terms, such as Apple, Husky, and Xiaoming.

File requirements and limits

  • Use a TXT file within 100 KB, encoded in UTF-8 without a byte order mark (BOM).

  • Put one hotword on each line. Chinese terms and English words or phrases are supported.

  • Do not include special characters other than spaces, tabs, line breaks, and form feeds.

Category

Maximum hotword length

Maximum lines per group

Name-based

15 Chinese characters or 7 English words. For mixed Chinese and English terms, the combined number of Chinese characters and English letters must not exceed 15.

500

Business-specific

9 characters, including Chinese characters, English letters, and spaces.

128

To add a large number of hotwords, consider language model customization. For more information, see Language model customization.

Create hotwords

Log on to the Intelligent Speech Interaction console.

  1. In the navigation pane, choose Self-Learning Platform > Hotwords.

  2. On the Hotwords page, click Create Hotword.

  3. In the Create Hotword dialog box, enter a Hotword Name, select a Custom Phrase Category, upload a file that meets the requirements, and click OK.

Apply hotwords

  1. In the navigation pane, click All Projects. For the target project, click Project Settings.

  2. In the Hot Word section, select a group for person names, place names, or business-specific terms, and click Publish.

The configuration takes effect immediately for new speech recognition requests. Requests that are already running are not affected.