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The Voysis company founded in 2012 specializes in development of artificial intelligence technologies of recognition of the natural speech for voice assistants. The office of the company is in Dublin (Ireland).
History
2020: Apple purchased the developer of the AI platform for voice assistants
At the beginning of April, 2020 it became known that Apple purchased Voysis. The startup offered Apple the AI platform for voice assistants which will allow them to understand a natural language better. It is supposed that Voysis technologies will be able to expand functionality of Siri.
According to Bloomberg, before Voysis worked on improvement of voice assistants in applications for online purchases. Thanks to Voysis technologies AI assistants understood requests of users better and quicker found required goods. On the website of a startup it is specified that this technology uses customer bases of data and also special AI tools which will recognize specifics of products and services and have rather extensive lexicon to simplify process of interaction with users.
On the website of the company it was said earlier that "Intelligent voice systems" of a startup provide to companies "rich, natural language interactions between brands and users". The page was deleted and available only in the archived type.
Your data and our platform will allow the AI assistant to understand easily what your clients speak about — it is said on other archived page of the website. |
Most likely, the purchased technology will be used for improvement of work of Siri voice assistant who is built in all devices of Apple, including iPhone. By many Siri parameters lags behind Alexa Amazon and Google Assistant, when it comes to AI opportunities, and it is possible that Voysis technologies will help to correct this omission.[1]
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