It integrates functional product R&D/innovation/design/service, and specializes in the development of human-computer interaction products such as speech recognition/speech synthesis/natural language understanding
Founded in 2007 in Cambridge High-tech Zone, the founders are all from Cambridge, and returned to China in 2008 to settle in Suzhou; It is one of the very few companies in the world with independent property rights and integrated Chinese and English speech technology (speech recognition, speech synthesis, natural language understanding, intelligent interactive decision-making, voiceprint recognition, gender and age recognition, emotion recognition, etc.) with human-computer dialogue technology, and its speech recognition, voiceprint recognition, oral dialogue system and other technologies have won the championship in the evaluation of the National Bureau of Standards, the United States Department of Defense and international research institutions for many times, representing the international cutting-edge level of technology, and has been rated as a high-tech enterprise by the Chinese and British governments.
Since its establishment, the company has received investment from many well-known VCs such as Legend Star and TusHoldings, and has successively won the Cambridge University Business Plan Award, the Cambridge University Downing Fund, the British Government R&D Fund, the National Electronics Development Fund, the Key Science and Technology Support Program and various leading enterprise funds. From 2015 to 2016, the company received two consecutive rounds of huge financing, and is currently valued at billions of yuan. Since the end of 2016, the team of nearly 100 people has been working on the closed development for several months, committed to creating a more intelligent one-stop dialogue customization platform. DUI empowers developers with the underlying voice technology that has been accumulated for ten years, and at the same time provides funds and subsidies to outstanding developers on the platform and upstream and downstream content providers, creating a benign ecosystem of artificial intelligence and helping the industry create a more intelligent human-computer interaction experience. On September 7, 2017, the DUI platform was officially launched in Beijing.
Since the end of 2016, the team of nearly 100 people has been working on the closed development for several months, committed to creating a more intelligent one-stop dialogue customization platform, and DUI was born. DUI empowers developers with the underlying voice technology that has been accumulated for ten years, and at the same time invests 200 million yuan to provide support for outstanding developers on the platform and upstream and downstream content providers, creating a benign ecosystem of artificial intelligence and helping the industry create a more intelligent human-computer interaction experience.
On September 7, 2017, the DUI platform will be officially launched in Beijing, and we look forward to more users joining us for a one-stop dialogue customization experience and experiencing the charm of DUI.
Aiming at intelligent conversational interaction in vertical fields, Spires innovates and optimizes scenario-based voice technology according to various vertical industries, and makes differentiated voice solutions. It is the first in the industry to launch multi-round dialogue, correctable and interruptible cognitive intelligence, real-time transcription of voice input tablets, ring 6 1 far-field microphone array, AIOS-Spire Dialogue Operating System and DUI-Dialogue Customization Platform. The company has docked a wealth of back-end content services, including entertainment, navigation, and a series of O2O, etc., which will further enrich the back-end service capabilities, create an integrated interactive and service query experience for users, and become an information acquisition portal in the era of intelligent hardware.
At present, Spires has reached cooperation with many first-class companies in the industry, including Alibaba, Tencent, 360, JD.com, Xiaomi, Haier, Lenovo, Meizu, LeTV, Junzheng, Zhejiang Dahua, etc., and tens of millions of users have realized interactive communication with smart home, vehicle, intelligent robot and other terminals through Spire's natural language interaction.
The team of nearly 400 people, nearly half of whom are speech R&D engineers, most of whom come from well-known universities and research institutes at home and abroad, such as Cambridge, National University of Singapore, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Tsinghua University, Peking University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Chinese Academy of Sciences and University of Science and Technology of China. Spire has set up companies in Shenzhen, Beijing and Suzhou, established an intelligent human-computer interaction laboratory with Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and established the Suzhou Institute of Artificial Intelligence, with dozens of speech researchers to do basic and forward-looking speech research.
Spires has been invited to participate in the "Wuzhen World Internet Summit" for two consecutive years, and has won hundreds of awards in recent years, and has been rated as one of the "100 Most Competitive Artificial Intelligence Companies in the World" by Goldman Sachs (only two in China have been awarded); Gartner named one of the "Top Five Most Promising AI Companies in East Asia" (Spire is the only voice company in Chinese mainland to be awarded). In April 2017, CCTV-2 "Economic Half Hour" took Spires as an example to tell the history of a technology start-up with technical strength.
