Beijing Unisound Information Technology Co., Ltd., often shortened to Unisound, is a Chinese technology company based in
Beijing
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. It is a
unicorn startup specialising in
speech recognition
Speech recognition is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and computational linguistics that develops methodologies and technologies that enable the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers with the m ...
and
artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech re ...
services applicable to a variety of industries.
History
Since the company was founded in 2012 by Huang Wei it has raised over US$250 million.
In 2018 Unisound raised US$100 million from the China Electronics Health Fund.
Technology
Unisound has been involved in academic research relating to voice recognition technologies and acoustic modelling powered by
deep neural networks
Deep learning (also known as deep structured learning) is part of a broader family of machine learning methods based on artificial neural networks with representation learning. Learning can be supervised, semi-supervised or unsupervised.
...
.
In 2018, Unisound developed their product Swift which they described as the first
AIoT chip due to its combination of
AI and
IoT
The Internet of things (IoT) describes physical objects (or groups of such objects) with sensors, processing ability, software and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other com ...
technologies.
The development of Swift was accelerated due to
strategic collaborations with
Baidu
Baidu, Inc. ( ; , meaning "hundred times") is a Chinese multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products and artificial intelligence (AI), headquartered in Beijing's Haidian District. It is one of the la ...
and
IngDan (), a subsidiary of the
Cogobuy Group.
Due to the chip's implementation of
deep learning
Deep learning (also known as deep structured learning) is part of a broader family of machine learning methods based on artificial neural networks with representation learning. Learning can be supervised, semi-supervised or unsupervised.
De ...
and AI, it is purported to process up to 50 times faster than other AI chips on the market.
Their technology has been developed for industries such as TV manufacturing, air conditioner production, healthcare and automotive technology.
References
External links
Unisound official website
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