Speech analysis and synthesis (Market Assessment)

语音分析与合成（市场评估）

• 批准号: 555606-2020
• 负责人: Unger, Andre
• 金额: $ 1.09万
• 依托单位: University of Waterloo
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Idea to Innovation
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2020-01-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=705990
• 关键词: Speech; analysis; synthesis; Market; Assessment

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.

滑铁卢的语音处理和自然语言理解人工智能软件提供了一种新颖的方式