Does iFlytek have a chance to make voice chips specifically for home appliances?

The home appliance industry is neither a sunrise industry nor a sunset industry, but the industry chain built around the upstream and downstream of the home appliance industry has brought many opportunities. Especially with the advent of AI and 5G, AIoT is becoming a new outlet to quickly penetrate the market. Taking the home appliance industry as an example, in theory, AIoT can connect everything, and consumers can feel that smart life is everywhere with just a mobile phone.

However, since home appliance brands are independent of each other and their respective platforms are almost not open to the outside world, many products of different brands cannot communicate with each other to form a true Internet of Things. At present, AIoT in the home appliance industry refers to the interconnection of internal products or the Internet of Things formed with external cross-industry products. Different brands in the home appliance industry cannot yet achieve the Internet of Things.

iFlytek manufactures dedicated voice chips for home appliances

However, iFlytek's technological innovation may break this situation. On October 24, iFlytek once again released four new ecological products at the 1024 Developer Festival, announcing the upgrade of the operating system "iFLYOS" in the AIoT era; launching a fully upgraded AI full-stack service open platform - Ability Nebula 2.0; jointly building the CSK400X series of voice chips for the home appliance industry with ecological partners; and launching the artificial intelligence Internet of Things platform AIoT.

For the home appliance field, iFLYTEK has teamed up with its ecological partners to develop the CSK400X series of voice chips specifically for the home appliance industry. The chips integrate iFLYTEK's independently designed AI accelerators and deep neural network algorithms to create specialized voice chips with high flexibility, high integration, and high reliability security architecture tailored for various industries empowered by artificial intelligence.

In terms of algorithms, its computing power reaches 128GOPS/s. It solves the noise problem in the home through a deep neural network algorithm and supports 200 wake-up words as command words.

In terms of speech recognition, the chip is equipped with full-stack speech capabilities, including noise reduction, echo cancellation, speech separation, local and cloud speech recognition, local and cloud speech synthesis, and online full-duplex interaction capabilities.

In terms of application, this chip is used in the customized solution for smart modules of home appliances, which is rich in functions, leading in effect and cost-effective, enabling home appliances to integrate and use these high-level voice capabilities at a very low cost. At the same time, it is also specially customized for smart TV noise reduction modules, and the six-microphone linear array provided is implanted with a neural network wake-up engine, which can realize customized beams in home scenarios.

iFLYTEK accelerates smart home

In terms of smart home, iFLYTEK is committed to providing one-stop smart home solutions - exploring with partners to implant chips into smart panels to enable free communication between users and houses.

Yu Jidong, vice president of iFlytek's Consumer BG, said that AIoT has become one of iFlytek's core strategies. iFlytek will continue to strengthen the development of its core technologies, and those technologies that will be used in the AIoT field will become the focus of iFlytek's research and development.

iFlytek will continue to invest in AI technology required for AIoT, continue to make breakthroughs in core technologies such as noise reduction, wake-up, synthesis, recognition, and semantic understanding, and quickly access and implement them based on iFLYOS.

At the same time, iFLYTEK also provides core management components such as device management, skill management, and content management to help home appliances, home furnishings, and automotive industries to carry out comprehensive industry product upgrades through the integration of AIoT.

"Real smart life should start from the home, and the most important equipment in the home is home appliances. Among them, televisions, air conditioners, refrigerators, washing machines, range hoods, and even smart clothes racks have all added voice functions in recent years. iFlytek will continue to innovate AIOT technology around smart life." Yu Jidong said.

The software released by iFLYOS is the second upgrade of iFLYOS after the release of iFLYOS 2.0 in the fifth year of this year. On the one hand, it shows iFLYOS's voice and technological innovation ability in the artificial intelligence industry. On the other hand, in the AI ​​era, iFLYTEK is breaking through the industry's interconnection barriers through technological upgrades and innovations.

For example, the newly upgraded cloud voice operating system iFLYOS has launched Cantonese interaction capabilities, voice changing capabilities, full-duplex continuous interaction, offline and online integration mode, and children-oriented chat, making voice interaction more and more smooth and humane. In addition, the newly upgraded cloud voice operating system iFLYOS also brings solutions to smart homes, smart TVs, cars, children's hardware, smart hotels, smart wearables and other industries.

One of the biggest highlights of "iFLYOS" is that it can solve the three needs of intelligent panel equipment, intelligent home space, and intelligent community at one time.

Based on the newly upgraded cloud voice operating system iFLYOS2.1, DeepLearning platform and AI cloud service technology framework, iFlytek launched a fully upgraded AI full-stack service open platform - Ability Nebula 2.0, which will provide services to a wider range of developers based on the cloud-based integrated technology framework iFLY-AIKit. AI engine developers can use the engine platform provided by iFLY-AIKit to connect their developed AI algorithm models to iFlytek Ability Nebula to achieve rapid service.

At present, iFlytek Open Platform has gathered 1.6 million ecological partners, responded to 1 billion AI service requests, and opened 267 AI capabilities and solutions, covering voice, image, hardware and natural language understanding. Among them, voice recognition technology already supports recognition of 59 languages ​​and 28 dialects.

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