Alibaba said that the founder of Xiansheng Media, Fu Qiang, a former researcher at the Institute of Acoustics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China, joined the Alibaba Robotics Lab and was responsible for the research and development of voice interaction front-end processing technologies and solutions; Many of the team's senior experts were Fu Qiang, the original Chinese of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in the Mainland, and one from the famous Dolby Laboratories. In early April of this year, Ali announced its full access to the Internet of Things (IoT) field. Fu Qiang led the acoustic team. Joining will be an important part of Ali IoT's implementation.
According to Fu Qiang, the short-term goal of the current machine intelligence technology laboratory is to implement the voice interaction technology in multiple scenarios and terminals, and to maintain a correct recognition rate in a complex environment. The demand for smart homes that are specifically targeted at IoT is being researched and developed based on Low-power, low-cost, highly-integrated cloud-integrated speech interaction technology and hardware solutions for small-array speech enhancement technology; with Ali's strategic layout on the wafer, there will be more progress on speech-specific chips. And revealed that the acoustic laboratory is being set up for special purposes, mainly used for online end-to-end testing of voice interactive systems in complex acoustic environments.
In addition, Alibaba announced on April 20 its wholly-owned acquisition of Zhongtianwei, the only independent embedded CPU IP core company in mainland China. Many technologies are also geared towards the IoT space. Alibaba CTO Zhang Jianfeng stated that Alibaba’s IoT strategy must be resource-controllable. Controllable, with core competencies, is one of the most important breakthroughs in research since the establishment of Dharma.
In October last year, Alibaba announced the establishment of a global research institute under the name of “Dharma House”. At present, it has set up scientific research institutes in multiple locations around the world, based on basic science, subversive technology and applied technology research.