Recently, Gartner Inc., a top research and advisory firm providing
information technology related insight for IT and other business leaders,
released the report of Cool Vendors for Artificial Intelligence, East Asia,
2017. AISpeech was identified as one of the cool vendors with its prominent
advantage in natural speech and language processing technology. Research
professor Yu Kai of our department is the co-founder and chief scientist of
AISpeech.
The five Cool Vendors for Artificial Intelligence are identi?ed based on the innovative
and intriguing technologies they bring to market. The report is an
authoritative third-party evaluation of the innovation and application of artificial
intelligence related technologies. It is published on the official website of
Gartner:
https://www.gartner.com/doc/3688838?ref=shareSummary
In recent years, the Intelligent Speech Technology Laboratory of our
department has made substantial progress in the basic research of intelligent
speech and language processing. It has achieved internationally advanced performances
in dialog state tracking, de-noising speech recognition and statistical
semantic understanding. AISpeech and the CS Department co-established the “SJTU-AISpeech
Joint Lab for Intelligent Human-Computer Interaction” and cooperated to made
technological breakthroughs. Now AISpeech has become one of the few firms in the
world that has English and Chinese speech and natural human-computer dialog
technologies of independent property rights. It was evaluated as a high-tech
enterprise by both Chinese and British governments. In 2016, AISpeech, together
with another Chinese start-up, was recognized by Goldman Sachs as one of the “AI
Key Players”. It is an outstanding representative of industrialization of our
department.
About Gartner Inc.: It is an American research and advisory firm
established in 1979. It provides information technology related insight for IT
and other business leaders located across the world for more than 20 years. Its
headquarters are in Stamford, Connecticut, United States. Each year it
identifies the most innovative “Cool Vendors” in key technological fields and
release a series of research reports.