When most companies focus their effort on the smart speaker market, one of the world’s first smart speaker makers have turned their eyes to the children’s market. DeepBrain (http://deepbrain.ai/) specializes in providing Turn-Key solutions for toy manufacturers. They have built China’s Alexa and is helping the global toy industry to upgrade and become intelligent.
A Rich Tech Background
The core team at DeepBrain is one of the earliest team in China to focus on Natural Language Processing. They launched Smart 360, the first Chinese voice assistant, in December 2011 and have since accumulated millions of users.
When IoT was still growing strong in 2013, the team realized that apart from mobiles, IoT was another important voice interaction scenario worth expanding their technology on. They launched the world’s first smart speaker, Small Zhi Soundbox, in June 2014. This was six months earlier than Echo, which supports Alexa.
In 2015 the team foresaw the exponential growth of IoT scenarios centered around voice intelligence. They believe that developing an intelligent brain to converse with all things will push forward the entire IoT industry. They finally launched the DeepBrain AI Cloud Platform in May 2017, after over two years’ hard work.
The “Apple Store” of Semantic Skills
The goal of DeepBrain AI Cloud Platform is to build a powerful semantic skills ecosystem. Semantic skills include entering audios, images and texts, using semantic matching understanding as core technology, combining content provider to create a new form of third party application. These rich skills equate semantic skills platform on IoT with the Apple App Store in the smart phone era, or the app store in Android.
Some common issues for traditional manufacturers upgrading to AI manufacturers are how to keep their customers through the smart service grafted on hardwares, and creating a positive cycle of business model. Semantic skills ecosystem is the basis of AI service. Through involving developers from all industries, they can create semantic skills apps that fit customers’ need better in all scenarios.
When facing all types of scenarios, instead of customized hardwares, different needs of customers can be satisfied by the semantic skills shop. As easy as people downloading different apps according to their needs on the app store. With a variety of semantic skills this enriches the functions of hardwares.
It terms of semantics recognition skills, DeepBrain enables skills developers to develop skills that are capable of conducting dialogue with complex context for more than 20 rounds with precision rate exceeding 98%, and are able to train themselves to achieve customization depending on the characteristics of manufacturers and user data.
A Solution That Unifies Hardware and Software – Toy Market’s Alexa
Alexa has become one of the most popular AI products in the world. Smart home appliances equipped with Alexa make living smarter, bringing changes to people’s life. Yet, DeepBrain, with its AI cloud platform, chose not to focus on smart home appliances, but on toys.
As China allows parents to have a second child, the number of newborns is expected to increase between 17.8 to 19.5 million every year. The number of children aged 3 to 14 will reach 320 million. The toy market will see continuous growth. This is a huge untapped market. DeepBrain will help the toy industry in China and the rest of the world to make smarter toys.
CMO of DeepBrain said that DeepBrain is China’s first robot SaaS platform. Its clients include IoT hardware maker, APP developers, toy manufacturers. It enables products to conduct in-depth dialogue with people. Providing a cloud brain for all kinds of IoT devices, it enables them to talk, think and make decisions. It’s also a powerful cloud for manufacturers (allowing them to connect devices and manage them, view and control devices remotely, store and analyze huge amount of data, store and synchronize user operations information). It provides infrastructure such as a platform to manage and interact with users and a huge amount of skills and services.
DeepBrain has complete smart hardware empowerment solutions for Android, Linux and RTOS systems. It provides services for various famous toy brands suppliers in and out of China, such as Bandai, Hasbro and Mattel and smart robot toy companies such as Jin XingDa, Huixue and JianJian Intelligent Technology that sell more than 1 million smart toys every year.
DeepBrain is also working on developing products that support multiple languages. It will explore combining its existing offerings with blockchain. Before long, paid skills on DeepBrain will be able to be bought using DBC (DeepBrain Chain token). DeepBrain hopes to help toy makers to make their tens of millions of toys smarter. Making toys less cold, but more human and smarter, so that they can be truly happy companions for children.
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