SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
April 18, 2019 /PRNewswire/
-- Sensory Inc., a Silicon Valley company dedicated to
pioneering new capabilities for machine learning and embedded AI,
today announced the first full feature release of TrulyNatural, the
company's embedded large vocabulary speech recognition platform,
with natural language understanding. With more than 50 people-years
of development and five years of beta testing behind it,
TrulyNatural will help companies move beyond the cloud
to create exciting products capable of natural language
interaction without compromising their customers' privacy
and without the high memory cost of open source-based
solutions.
In March of 2019, PCMag.com published results from a consumer
survey where 40-percent of the 2,000 US consumers questioned placed
privacy as their top concern related to smart home devices in their
homes; far surpassing other concerns like cost, installation,
product options and cross platform interoperability. Furthermore,
Bloomberg published an article last week titled, "Amazon Workers
Are Listening to What You Tell Alexa," which explains that Amazon's
Alexa team does in fact pay people to listen to recordings for
algorithm training purposes. The Bloomberg article quoted,
"Occasionally the listeners pick up things Echo owners likely would
rather stay private: a woman singing badly off key in the shower,
say, or a child screaming for help. The teams use internal chat
rooms to share files when they need help parsing a muddled word—or
come across an amusing recording."
Privacy has never been a hotter topic than it is today.
TrulyNatural is the perfect solution for addressing these consumer
concerns, because it provides devices with an extremely intelligent
natural language user interface, while keeping voice data private
and secure; voice requests never leave the device, nor are they
ever stored.
"To benefit from the advantages afforded by cloud-based natural
language processing, companies have been forced to risk customer
privacy by allowing always listening devices to share voice data
with the recognition service providers," said Todd Mozer, CEO at Sensory. "TrulyNatural does
not require any data to leave the device and eliminates the privacy
risks associated with sending voice data to the cloud, and as an
added benefit it allows product manufacturers to own the customer
relationship and experience."
TrulyNatural can provide a natural language voice UI on devices
of all shapes and sizes, and can be deployed for domain-specific
applications, such as home appliances, vehicle infotainment
systems, set top boxes, home automation, industrial and enterprise
applications, mobile apps and more. Sensory is unique in developing
its speech recognizer from scratch with the goal of providing the
best quality of experience in the smallest footprint. Many
companies take open source solutions and resell it. Sensory
explored doing this too, but found that it could create its own
solution that is an order of magnitude smaller than open source
options without sacrificing performance, boasting an excellent task
completion rate measured at greater than 90 percent
accuracy1. TrulyNatural can be as small as under 10MB in
a natural language and large vocabulary setting, but it can also be
scaled to support broad-domain applications like virtual assistants
and call center chatbots with a virtually unlimited vocabulary. By
categorizing speech into unlimited intents and entities, the
natural language understanding component of the system enables
intelligent interpretation of any speech and does not require
scripted grammars.
"Consumer concerns over security and privacy have been growing
over time and Sensory's TrulyNatural platform addresses this by
embedding natural language speech recognition locally on
device. As a result, TrulyNatural improves response time and
delivers a high performing, more secure and reliable
solution. Product manufacturers will appreciate
TrulyNatural's speech engine technology because it enables them to
implement a highly valued voice experience through their own brand
name and avoid surrendering customers to a potential competitor,"
said Dennis Goldenson, Research
Director, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning with SAR
Insight and Consulting.
Designed to run completely on an applications processor,
TrulyNatural does not require an internet connection, as all of the
speech processing is done natively (at the edge), not in the cloud.
It enables a safe, secure, consistent, reliable and easy to
implement experience for the end-user, free of requiring any extra
apps or WIFI to be setup or operational. By combining TrulyNatural
with other Sensory technologies, such as
TrulyHandfreetm wake words, product manufacturers
can further enhance the user experience offered by their products
by utilizing their own branded wake words, or even let the customer
create their own. Furthermore, device manufacturers can bolster the
security of their devices by pairing TrulyNatural with
TrulySecuretm to restrict user access or features
through voice biometrics.
As an added bonus, TrulyNatural can be combined with other
Sensory technologies to unlock powerful features and capabilities.
These technologies include:
- TrulyHandsfree custom branded always listening wake words
- Seamless enrollment of regular users
- TrulySecure speaker identification and verification
- TrulySecure face and/or voice biometrics
- Sound identification
TrulyHandsfree TrulyNatural currently supports US English, with
UK English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin
Chinese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish planned for release in
2019 and 2020. SDK's are available for Android, iOS, Windows, Linux
and other leading platforms.
For more information about this announcement, Sensory or its
technologies, please contact sales@sensory.com ; Press
inquiries: press@sensory.com.
About Sensory Inc.
Sensory Inc. creates a safer and
superior UX through vision and voice technologies. Sensory's
technologies are widely deployed in consumer electronics
applications including mobile phones, automotive, wearables, toys,
IoT and various home electronics. With its TrulyHandsfree™ voice
control, Sensory has set the standard for mobile handset platforms'
ultra-low power "always listening" touchless control. To date,
Sensory's technologies have shipped in over a billion units of
leading consumer products.
TrulyNatural is a trademark of Sensory Inc.
1: A home appliance task was analyzed through a spectrum of
accented US English speakers across a mix of distances (1-10 ft)
with a variety of background noise sources and levels representing
realistic home conditions. Tasks included cooking methods, timers,
time periods, food types and other possible functions (reset, stop,
open/close, etc.) and users were not instructed on things they
could or couldn't request. Multiple types of entities and intents
were chosen through NLU and one or more errors from a single phrase
would be counted as an error, such that only completely correct
interpretations were counted as accurate task completions. Garbage
phrases that were ignored were counted as correct, any action taken
on a garbage phrase was counted as failure. The task completion
rate was measured at over 90% accurate.
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