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Wake Words Revisited in the Cloud Sensory has always had a forte in wake words. We first developed what we called “voice triggers” back in the early 2000’s as a way for Hallmark to introduce stories with plush pets that would interact as you spoke certain words (see Interactive Story Buddies). Sensory was able to get the accuracy up and…

After a quarter century of running embedded or “on the Edge” Sensory is moving into the cloud with the opportunity to offer hybrid solutions with more Flexibility, Accuracy, Features/Technologies, Privacy and Cost advantages than ever before. This is the first of a multipart blog series to introduce SensoryCloud.ai and the key advantages. This blog will focus on Flexibility. One of…

Sensory and DSP Concepts both provide technologies that empower developers to make better audio products. Sensory focuses on improving the user experience through embedded machine learning technologies for wake word detection, command and phrase spotting, natural language processing, and sound identification. The mission of DSP Concepts is to make audio innovation easy, providing product makers with a low-code, hardware-independent audio…

I absolutely love using voice control in my car. Although I may be what marketing folks describe as an “early adopter” when it comes to voice control technology, I love this technology because it works, well at least it does most of the time. The ability to pick a song or podcast, dictate texts, and add a stop along my…

Sensory prides itself on being one of the few deep learning companies working with vision and voice that quite intentionally does not try to collect personal information. We believe that private information should stay private, and we traditionally felt that the best way to accomplish this was to not let any data leave the device. For that reason, Sensory’s technology…