Beijing Unisound Information Technology Co., Ltd., often shortened to Unisound, is a Chinese technology company based in
Beijing
Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's List of national capitals by population, most populous national capital city as well as ...
. It is a
unicorn startup specialising in
speech recognition
Speech recognition is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and computational linguistics that develops methodologies and technologies that enable the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers. It is also ...
and
artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the capability of computer, computational systems to perform tasks typically associated with human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making. It is a field of re ...
services applicable to a variety of industries.
History
Since the company was founded in 2012 by Huang Wei it has raised over US$250 million.
In 2018 Unisound raised US$100 million from the China Electronics Health Fund.
Technology
Unisound has been involved in academic research relating to voice recognition technologies and acoustic modelling powered by
deep neural networks
Deep learning is a subset of machine learning that focuses on utilizing multilayered neural networks to perform tasks such as classification, regression, and representation learning. The field takes inspiration from biological neuroscience a ...
.
In 2018, Unisound developed their product Swift which they described as the first
AIoT chip due to its combination of
AI and
IoT technologies.
The development of Swift was accelerated due to
strategic collaborations with
Baidu
Baidu, Inc. ( ; ) is a Chinese multinational technology company specializing in Internet services and artificial intelligence. It holds a dominant position in China's search engine market (via Baidu Search), and provides a wide variety of o ...
and
IngDan (), a subsidiary of the
Cogobuy Group
Cogobuy Group is a Chinese enterprise service platform.
Following a major business restructuring in 2019, the group merged chip sales service on Cogobuy.com into Comtech, and merged R&D and IoT product financing and corporate services, previous ...
.
Due to the chip's implementation of
deep learning
Deep learning is a subset of machine learning that focuses on utilizing multilayered neural networks to perform tasks such as classification, regression, and representation learning. The field takes inspiration from biological neuroscience a ...
and AI, it is purported to process up to 50 times faster than other AI chips on the market.
Their technology has been developed for industries such as TV manufacturing, air conditioner production, healthcare and automotive technology.
References
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External links
Unisound official website
Chinese brands
Chinese companies established in 2012
Companies based in Beijing
Information technology companies of China