Sogou Has Opened Dictation Service and the Recording Pen Industry Has Entered the Era of AI
On August 28, 2019, Sogou Company held a conference of Sogou Dictation Service Opening and AI Innovation Alliance with the theme of "New Voice, Future of AI". At the meeting, Sogou opened its core technical ability "Sogou dictation" service and announced the establishment of AI Innovation Alliance with Patriot, Newmine Newman, Sony Recording Pen and Wancheng Corporation. The convening of this conference marks that Sogou is leading the recording pen industry to the era of AI.
At present, the peak of Sogou's input voice request has exceeded 700 million times, which is the largest Chinese voice application in the world. Based on this, the transcription technology behind Sogou's dictation service has been in the leading position in the industry. Its real-time voice transcription uses the self-developed delayed controllable Address Attention-based end-to-end modeling technology. Its not real-time speech transcription function uses the industry-leading deep Transformer-based end-to-end speech recognition technology, the accuracy of voice transcription can reach more than 95%. In speech enhancement, Sogou's self-developed Smart Voice microphone array algorithm can optimize the noise and reverberation in multiple depths to ensure the high fidelity of human voice. In the aspect of intelligent assistant editing, Sogou voice transcription can provide multiple candidate words for low confidence transcription results through cloud-based intelligent error correction editing technology, based on word graph search and input error correction model, which can help users correct transcription results. At the same time, Sogou voice transcription has good automatic distinguishing between speakers and intelligent text; it has smooth and punctuation prediction capabilities that can provide users with more convenient functions.
Sogou launched the AI recording pen C1 in March this year, its accuracy rate of transcoding is as high as 95%, and has many kinds of AI functions, such as real-time translation, cloud sharing, Chinese and English simultaneous interpreting, etc., and achieved the first sales results of single product in many electronic business platforms in a short time. At this conference, Sogou launched an upgraded version of AI recording pen dazzling color version to meet the needs of more diversified and fashionable users.
At present, Sogou input method occupies 99% of the market share in PC, and the daily life of mobile users exceeds 450 million. Sogou dictation service is based on the user's habits of Sogou input method. It can automatically build personalized identification network, which reduces the error rate of common words by 40%.
Through the innovation of AI recording pen, the opening of Sogou voice transcription service and the establishment of AI innovation alliance, Sogou is leading the recording pen industry into the AI era from three directions: product, technology and industrial chain.
Source: China IP Magazine
Date: Aug 29, 2019
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