Speech analysis and synthesis (Market Assessment)

Waterloo的语音处理和自然语言理解AI软件提供了一种新颖的方式， 将数字声音文件复制为时间和声音上的平滑和连续（即“模拟”）功能 频率.它调整和转换人类生成语音的功能表示， 以人类自然语言的方式表达单词和句子。目前的竞争产品缺乏措辞， 自然的人类语言并降低人类互动过程中的情感联系。这样做的一些好处 创新包括：（1）复制自然人类语音，（2）没有 （3）合成声音数据相对于背景噪声、口音或方言的显著压缩， 原始数字录音。 这项创新已应用于电信、汽车、银行、医疗保健和军事领域 行业包括具有语音功能的设备和虚拟助理的语音激活系统容易被采用， 汽车行业和呼叫中心。这些技术在对抗 欺诈活动，并通过采用语音生物识别技术加强银行业的安全性 用于用户身份验证。语音识别和合成在医疗保健领域也非常有价值，因为它 在患者交互和临床文档方面实现效率和成本节约。 作为这项市场评估赠款的一部分，选定的顾问（Adventus）将进行全面的市场评估， 分析，以确定最合适的市场机会，沿着技术，营销和财务 与在特定细分市场中应用该技术相关的挑战。良好的市场 评估结果将（1）制定商业化战略，并帮助吸引早期投资（2） 形成提交后续NSERC I2I第1阶段项目提案的基础。

Waterloo's Speech Processing and Natural Language Understanding AI Software offers a novel way of replicating digital sound files as a smooth and continuously (i.e. "analog") function in time and sound frequency. It adjusts and transforms the functional representation of human generated phonetics to generate words and sentences in the manner of natural human speech. Current competitive products lack the phrasing of natural human speech and degrade the emotive connection during human interaction. Some advantages of this innovation include: (1) replicating natural human speech, (2) speech recognition without impediments posed by background noise, accents or dialects (3) significant compression of the synthesized sound data relative to the original digital recording. This innovation has application in the telecommunication, automotive, banking, healthcare and military industries. Voice activated systems including voice-enabled devices and virtual assistants are readily adopted in the automotive industry and call centres. These technologies have become increasingly valuable in countering fraudulent activities and enhancing security in the banking industry through the adoption of voice biometrics for user authentication. Voice recognition and synthesis is also highly valuable in the healthcare sector as it enables efficiencies and cost savings in patient interaction and clinical documentation. As part of this Market Assessment grant, the selected consultant (Adventus) will perform a thorough market analysis to identify the most suitable market opportunities along with technical, marketing and financial challenges associated with the application of the technology in a particular market segment. A favorable market assessment result will (1) formulate the commercialization strategy and help attract early stage investments (2) form the basis for submitting a follow-on NSERC I2I Phase 1 project proposal.