Sensory Targeting Kitchen Appliance Makers, Others With Edge-Based Voice Control Platform

Sensory announced a domain-specific voice assistant for smart appliances Tuesday. A specialized version of TrulyNatural -- a large-vocabulary speech recognition and natural language understanding platform -- is designed to help appliance makers develop smart kitchen products that don’t rely on relaying voice requests to the cloud, said the company. Citing concerns over privacy, Sensory said TrulyNatural’s user interface keeps data private and secure because voice requests never leave the device and are never stored. The voice UI can be integrated into appliances, vehicle infotainment systems, set-top boxes, home automation, industrial and enterprise application and mobile apps, said the company. It’s designed to run on an application processor with all speech processing done natively at the edge and can be set to customized wake-up words chosen by a device maker. The technology can also be configured to provide biometric-based security and user control features. Supported languages planned for 2020 release are U.S. and U.K. English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. In Las Vegas, Sensory will preview the technology for a microwave oven by appointment only.