HKUST Xunfei: Voice interaction promotes new development of smart home industry

China Smart Home Industry Alliance CSHIA 2018 Annual Meeting was held in Hangzhou on March 19. Dr. Wang Zhiguo, co-founder of HKUST Xunfei and executive director of the Research Institute, was invited to attend the annual meeting and delivered a keynote speech "Artificial Intelligence Promotes New Development of Smart Home".

Dr. Wang Zhiguo pointed out that as the smart home system is becoming more and more complex, home intelligence needs to solve the most primitive living needs of people in the process of system complexity, which includes at least two aspects: a more natural human-computer interaction experience in the home scene and human-centered intelligent service housekeeper. Intelligent voice interaction can be said to be the perfect combination of artificial intelligence technology and smart home. Under the application of this technology, users can realize the interaction with the overall smart home system only through voice dialogue, which not only has almost no learning cost, but also improves the user experience qualitatively. As a leader in China's artificial intelligence industry, iFLYTEK hopes to help all kinds of intelligent hardware quickly access iFLYTEK's A.I. capabilities to achieve intelligent voice interaction. For this reason, HKUST Xunfei has strengthened its connection with developers, providing comprehensive development support-cloud full chain service, software integration scheme (hardware open source), chip scheme, hardware and software integration solution, and empowering A.I. technology to the smart home industry through HKUST Xunfei's intelligent hardware platform.

For example, now users no longer need the traditional remote control of "anti-human design" to watch TV. They can say which program they want to watch directly through the intelligent voice remote control. For example, the user only needs to say "open yesterday's news broadcast" and the TV will start playing directly. All the operations that used to require multiple steps are now a matter of one sentence.

In addition, a number of smart home appliances on the market have been connected to iFLYTEK's A.I. capabilities, including air conditioners, fans, refrigerators, etc., to bring consumers a new technology experience. Dr. Wang Zhiguo also mentioned that with the development of artificial intelligence technology and the change of various industries, the traditional A.I. enabling mode-providing intelligent hardware modules or software SDK will have certain restrictions. Many traditional industries do not have strong research and development capabilities, but they need fast product landing speed. Based on the insight into the pain points of the industry, hkust xunfei specially launched a finished product-level solution-xunfei MORFEI smart microphone. This intelligent product, which can be easily put into the palm of your hand, has industry-leading features such as three-dimensional sound pickup, voiceprint wake-up, distributed processing, far-field accurate recognition, full-duplex interaction, free switching of synthetic pronunciation, etc. It supports a broad customizable space, including business scenarios, industrial ID design, LOGO, etc., to achieve differentiation,

Meet the actual market needs of manufacturers. MORFEI smart microphone is connected to the iFLYTEK AIUI skill platform to realize a free and flexible cloud programming framework to help developers quickly connect to the ecosystem. Dr. Wang Zhiguo said that Xunfei MORFEI smart microphone is a sharp weapon to quickly empower the smart home industry. Its intelligent voice interaction full chain and hardware and software integration features save developers a lot of development work and time. Taking real estate developers as an example, iFLYTEK MORFEI smart microphone can help them quickly access iFLYTEK A. I. capabilities, realize the customization of a complete set of smart homes, not only improve the actual experience of users, but also help manufacturers win the industry competition under the trend of intelligence.