Ali said that the scale of the acquisition is not large, mainly for technology and talent, the specific amount was not disclosed. The reporter learned that with Ali's strategic layout on the chip, the future will also have more progress on the voice-specific chip.
Legend: Wearing red clothes is Dr. Fu Qiang
At the same time, the founder of Synchronics, Dr. Qiang Qiang, a former researcher at the Institute of Acoustics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently joined Alibaba's Machine Intelligence Technology Laboratory and is responsible for research and development of voice interaction front-end processing technologies and solutions. A number of senior experts from the founding team, most of whom were Fu Qiang in the original class of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Horses, and one from the famous Dolby Laboratories.
In early April, Ali announced full access to the Internet of Things. Fu Qiang led the acoustic team to join and will become an important part of the Ali IoT scene. In the second half of last year, the former Polycom chief engineer Feng Jinwei joined Ali to conduct research and development of the Shanghai subway voice ticket machines. This is the world's first voice interactive product in a strong noisy environment.
After joining Fu Qiang, he will integrate resources to promote the scene of voice recognition technology to form a commercial solution combining hardware and software, and end-cloud integration. He will also build two physical acoustics labs. On April 20, Alibaba acquired a wholly-owned subsidiary in mainland China. The independent embedded CPU IP Core Corporation Zhongtianwei, many technologies are also facing the IoT field.
Fu Qiang revealed that the short-term goal of the current machine intelligence technology lab is to help voice interaction technology land on multiple scenes and terminals, and to maintain a correct recognition rate in complex environments. 'In particular, for the needs of smart homes with IoT, We are developing a low-power, low-cost, highly-integrated cloud-based voice interaction technology and hardware solution based on small array voice enhancement technology. With Ali's strategic layout on the chip, we will also have more voice-specific chips. More progress. '
He also revealed that he is planning to build a special-purpose acoustics laboratory, the main purpose of which is to use online end-to-end testing of speech interaction systems in complex acoustic environments.
'Ali's IoT strategy must be done with controllable resources, controllable technology, and core competitiveness. 'Alibaba's CTO Zhang Jianfeng said that this is one of the most important breakthroughs in research since the formation of the Dharma House.