• VoiceHub lets anyone add a natural language UI to anything.
• VoiceHub users can now create large, complex VUI models capable of natural language understanding, no programming experience required.
• Designers can now develop more complex and truly conversational voice interfaces with the capability of handling millions of unique phrases.

California-based tech company – Sensory, that makes low-cost embedded voice and biometric Artificial Intelligence on the Edge, has released a free and flexible online portal for creating and designing voice user interface – VoiceHub – to compete against Google, Amazon, and Apple.

The company has integrated support for TrulyNatural, its award-winning large vocabulary speech recognition solution that runs on a device with customisable natural language understanding (NLU) capabilities.

Voice user interface (VUI) designers can now produce natural language-enabled products capable of supporting dozens of languages and dialects – ideal for creating products targeting a global market. 

Enhancing voice functionality

Todd Mozer, CEO of Sensory, said that providing free access to flexible tools like VoiceHub helps to accelerate the next wave of branded voice experiences and domain-specific, customised voice assistants.

“Since releasing the VoiceHub beta in October, VUI designers around the world have used it to create hundreds of voice AI models for dozens of automotive, wearable, smartspeaker and smarthome products.

“Our new large vocabulary and NLU capabilities will unlock enhanced VUI functionality with intents and entities. This empowers designers to develop more complex and truly conversational voice interfaces with the capability of handling millions of unique phrases,” he said.

Sensory has shipped in over three billion products from hundreds of leading consumer electronics manufacturers including ATT, Hasbro, Huawei, Google, Amazon, Samsung, LG, Mattel, Motorola, Plantronics, GoPro, Sony, Tencent, Garmin, Microsoft, Lenovo, and more.

Supports dozens of platforms

Sensory has over 60 issued patents covering speech recognition in consumer electronics, biometric authentication, sensor/speech combinations, wake word technology, and more.

Daniel Colonna, Microcontrollers Marketing Director at STMicroelectronics, said that ST customers truly appreciate the working relationship they have with Sensory, whose technology always delivers on its accuracy and performance promises.

 “By adding VoiceHub to the menu of Sensory technologies accessible to our STM32 Discovery Board customers, developers are able to design working prototypes of natural language-capable products in a manner of minutes, not days, dramatically reducing their time to market,” he said.

For wake word phrase spotted commands, VoiceHub supports dozens of platforms from companies such as ST, DSPG and Ambiq. However, ST is the first partner platform demonstrating VoiceHub download for NLU and large vocabulary applications.