Re: New Technology from Sensory allows English Lessons on Handheld Devices

From: Peter Trompetter (ptrompetter_at_GyrusLogic.com)
Date: 10/16/04 

Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 09:00:54 -0700

Hi,
Great solution! You should only make it different in a way to process a
conversational natrural language interface other than just mapping of
phrases. Check http://www.GyrusLogic.com who has the natural language
interface you should integrate. Otherwise send an e-mail to
contact@gyruslogic..com
Thanks,
Peter Trompetter

Sensory Marketing wrote:
> Sensory Inc, the world leader in embedded speech technologies, is now
> demonstrating its new patent-applied-for English language training
> technology that is implemented on low cost chips. The new technology
> is being introduced in Hong Kong at Sensory's "Designing a Voice User
> Interface" seminar.
>
> Chinese Market Opportunity
> The Chinese government has mandated that all service employees will
> learn English by the 2008 summer Olympics in Beijing. This has caused
> a rapidly growing market to emerge for handheld language training
> devices. Typically, these language trainers will use chips from
> companies like Sensory or Scansoft to play samples of the English
> phrases and to allow a Chinese speaker to compare his/her recorded
> voice with that of the English speaker. Sensory's new technology goes
> one step beyond this to perform an analysis of the Chinese speaker's
> phrases so the speaker can get immediate feedback on the
> pronunciation. It's much like an English instructor on a chip!
> According to Sensory's CEO, Todd Mozer "Sensory is already selling
> millions of chips each year into this rapidly growing market, and
> these chips are just used for playback of speech, not analysis or
> feedback. Sensory's language training technology is exactly what our
> customers want!"
>
> How it Works
> A phrase is recorded into a handheld device and the technology
> analyzes the phrase's phonemic content, which is compared with that in
> stored templates of the properly spoken phrase. Playback of the
> recorded phrase can be sped up or slowed down, and an LED or LCD
> display can provide feedback on the quality of the spoken phrase
> during playback in order that the user can visually assess the
> performance. Settings can be adjusted to switch between a "lenient"
> instructor and a "tough" instructor, and training phrases can be
> cycled through to find specific phrases or general areas to practice
> (e.g. shopping, business, socializing, etc.).
>
> The RSC-4x Family & Tools
> Sensory has chosen to rollout and showcase its language training
> technology on the RSC-4x Family. This family of integrated circuits
> (IC's) has the ability to support a wide variety of speech
> technologies on a general purpose 8-bit microcontroller core. The
> RSC-4x Family is supported by a full suite of tools including,
> assembler, C-Compiler, debugger, and voice coding tools (QT2SI
> vocabulary generator, Quick Synthesis speech compressor, etc.).
>
> Edgar Chau, Managing Director of product development house
> Cyber-Workshop says "We are familiar with the RSC-4x Family of IC's,
> and we see much demand from our customers for this new language
> training technology. The Beta unit we received from Sensory worked
> quite well and we are sure to have many designs for 2005".
>
> Sensory plans to bring its language training technology to other
> embedded platforms, including the ARM line of microcontroller
> products popular in cell-phones.
>
> Availability & Pricing
> Sensory has created a demo platform that showcases a product design
> concept for a low cost language-trainer. Sensory is seeking strategic
> partners to roll out English language training handheld products
> around the world. The complete system is expected to retail for
> $19.95-$49.95 depending on features.
>
> About Sensory, Inc.
> Sensory, Inc. is the world leader in embedded speech technologies.
> Sensory's speech technologies include language training, speech
> recognition, speaker verification, speech synthesis, and animated
> speech, and are used in consumer electronics, cell phones, PDA's,
> Internet appliances, interactive toys, automobiles, and other
> applications where low cost and high quality is essential. Sensory
> offers a complete line of integrated circuit and embedded software
> solutions to customers such as Hasbro, JVC, Kenwood, Matsushita,
> Mattel, Mitsubishi, Sharper Image, Sony, Toshiba, Uniden, and many
> others. Sensory is a profitable privately held company founded in
> 1994. More information can be found at www.sensoryinc.com.

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