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A large European Telecom company invested close to a hundred million Euros on rolling out their own voice assistant on their own hardware. They tested their custom wake word with Sensory's wake word algorithm and found that it actually met their accuracy specification requirement. Their existing voice trigger (aka wake word) solution hadn’t met the market requirement, but they shipped…

Sensory Inc. executive Joseph Murphy explores the obstacles in the path to full natural language control of our home devices, and the ways Sensory is mitigating against them By Joe Murphy, Executive, Sensory Inc. “Defrost one pound of frozen chicken.” I have no clue what magical button sequence on my microwave will get me there, but it sure is easy…

Sensory went around pitching mobile phone companies to use wake words around 2009. Companies like Samsung and Motorola utilized this “new voice technology” in phones about 3-5 years after we pitched it. When we were offering the fixed wake words like “OK Google”, “Hi Galaxy” and “Hey Cortana” we also offered what we called User Defined Triggers (UDT), where the…

For many years Sensory has proudly provided on-device facial verification also known as authentication  solutions for banking institutions and well-known consumer-electronics companies like Fujitsu and HMD global (Nokia’s parent company).  With the latest release of Nokia’s first 5G phone, dubbed “the only gadget you’ll ever need” and featured in the latest James Bond film, we thought it might be a…

Two weeks ago, Amazon announced an Alexa Custom Assistant (ACA). I quickly blogged about it and posted on linkedin saying I thought it was a “big deal” and asked if others agreed. Almost half of the respondents agreed, a few disagreed, and a lot said something along the lines of “it depends”. Of course, “it depends” is the accurate answer,…