Overview:
An in-depth analysis of AI-based voiceprint technology in China with a major focus on key applications, the voice print ecosystem, use cases and technical challenges and limitations of the technology.
Table of Contents:
- Voiceprint as a Biometric Authentication Method
- Voiceprint Overview in China
- Key Applications Adopted in China
- The Voiceprint Ecosystem
- Use Case 1: d-Ear in Mobile Finance
- Use Case 2: TalentedSoft in Social Insurance
- Use Case 3: Alibaba's Smart Speaker in Smart Home
- Use Case 4: VoiceAI in Public Security
- Use Case 5: ThinkIT in Intelligent Call Centres
- Technical Challenges and Limitations
- Key Takeaways
Number of Pages: 31
Author: Gareth Owen
Published Date: March 2020
Overview:
Prominent Chinese AI start-up specializing in machine learning, deep compression, pruning and system-level optimization software for FPGAs. Now part of US FPGA vendor Xilinx.
Table of Contents:
- Corporate Snapshot and Milestones
- Key Technical Achievements
- Key Players in AI Chip Ecosystem
- Products and Solutions
- Target Markets
- Commercial Products by Key Markets
- Key Competitors
- Acquisition by Xilinx
- Strengths and Weaknesses
- Key Takeaways
Number of Pages: 24
Authors: Wei Sun, Gareth Owen
Publication Date: 24th March 2020
Overview:-
As the competition to to dominate the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) intensifies, our latest report looks into the activities, key strengths and weakness and strategies of the big four American tech giants – Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Facebook.
The report answers key questions of who leads the race to have the dominant AI ‘OS’ and what are the consequences of the battle of the big tech giants.
Table of Contents:-
- Snapshot
- Key Planning Assumptions
- Introduction
- Amazon
- Google
- Microsoft
- Facebook
- Viewpoint
Number of Pages:- 22
Authors:- Gareth Owen
Published Date:- March 2019
Overview:
With Machine Learning-as-a-Service (MLaaS) allowing a broad range of companies to benefit from the latest developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Deep Learning, our latest report provides a simple overview of key terms in AI and the players in the ecosystem.
This report focusses primarily on companies offering AI services for customer service applications, the healthcare industry and the manufacturing sector.
Table of Contents:
- Snapshot
- Key Planning Assumptions
- Definitions
- Machine Learning vs Deep Learning
- MLaaS – Key Providers
- AI in Customer Services
- Healthcare
- Manufacturing
- Viewpoint
Number of Pages: 23
Authors: Gareth Owen
Published Date: March 2019
Robots have been used for many years to automate production processes across a range of industries. Now robotic systems are finding increasing use in agriculture and are poised to transform farming in the coming years.
This Viewpoint investigates the emerging market for Small Farm Robots (SFRs) and focuses on the most promising applications and enabling technologies. It also discusses the impact of SFRs on farms, on the agricultural machinery industry and on global food production around the world during the next five years.
Table of Contents:
– Key planning assumptions
– Background and Context
– Types of Small Farm Robots
– Aerial Analytics
– Crop Care and Maintenance
– Harvesting
– Controlled Environment Agriculture
– Benefits of Small Farm Robots
– Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
– AI in AgTech
– Impact of SFRs on Farms, Food Production and the Environment
– Competitive Landscape
– Viewpoint
Overview:
Recently, with strong support from the government under China’s ‘National Development Policy’ and the growing market demands from industry verticals, the Chinese voice recognition ecosystem is developing rapidly. Major Chinese technology giants including IFLYTEK, Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent, have joined the game, deploying substantial financial and R&D resources to develop the technology and expand the ecosystem through partnerships. The value of the voice recognition market in China is expected to exceed CNY 25 billion (~USD 4 billion) in 2020. Use cases of voice assistant for consumer sector have also emerged, with smart home and smartphone being the major applications. The report also provides profiles for leading technology players in China and outlines their initiatives in AI technologies.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction of China Voice Recognition Market
- Market Overview
- Sizing of the China Voice Recognition Market
- Voice recognition use cases
- Smart Home Applications
- Smartphone Applications
- Appendix: Profiles of Key Technology Players
- Alibaba
- Baidu
- Tencent
- iFlytek
- JD.com
Number of Pages: 10
Author: Mengmeng Zhang, Flora Tang
Published Date: December 2018
Overview:
Recently, with strong support from the government under China’s ‘National Development Policy’ and the growing market demands from industry verticals, the Chinese voice recognition ecosystem is developing rapidly. Major Chinese technology giants including IFLYTEK, Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent have joined the game, deploying substantial financial and R&D resources to develop the technology and expand the ecosystem through partnerships. The value of the voice recognition market in China is expected to exceed CNY 25 billion (~USD 4 billion) in 2020. From a technological perspective, we will focus on four critical blocks of technology: voice recognition, voiceprint, semantic understanding (natural language understanding) and voice synthesis.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction of China Voice Recognition Market
- Market Overview
- Sizing of the China Voice Recognition Market
- Market Drivers
- Favorable Government Policies
- Advancements in Speech Recognition Technology
- Internet Giants Driving the Ecosystem
- Higher Penetration of Smart Devices in Day-to-Day Lifestyle
- Market Challenges
- NLP Faces Challenges in Processing Complex Chinese Languages
- Improvements for Better Noise Cancellation
- Limited Use-Cases
- Voice recognition use cases
- Use case analysis: automotive applications
- Industrial Applications
- Technology and Market Enablers
- Voice Recognition
- Microphone array becoming important
- The Cost and Quality Tradeoff
- Voiceprint
- Semantic Understanding (Natural Language Processing)
- Voice Synthesis
- Attitude of Chinese consumers toward AI technology
Number of Pages: 19
Author: Wei Sun, Flora Tang
Published Date: December 2018
In the world of cryptocurrency mining, Bitmain, headquartered in Beijing, is perhaps the most influential player in the blockchain ecosystem. Bitmain remains rather mysterious, and rarely comments in media reports, especially where cryptocurrency is banned in China. However, we have noticed a shift of attitude when Bitmain publicly announced its plan to conquer AI. In this report, Counterpoint provides an in-depth analysis of Bitmain and blockchain ASIC ecosystem, after an exclusive interview with Bitmain’s Director, Colin Wu in June.
Baidu is to China as Google is to the US. Not only did both originate as search engines and become the most popular ones in the world (Baidu is second to Google in popularity, and takes up 80% market share in China), but both also saw the potential of Artificial Intelligence, becoming first movers in the industry. And both are investing heavily in the future of self-driving vehicles.
Baidu’s autonomous driving progress has surprised the western world and is being relied on by the Chinese government to speed-up this area of technology development on a national scale. For the past two years, Baidu has put its resources primarily in the technology underlying AI, (Cloud +Baidu Brain), as well as AI-focused new businesses such as conversational AI platforms (DuerOS) and smart transportation platforms (Apollo). In fact, Robin Li has made Artificial Intelligence Baidu’s most important strategic development direction in the next 10 years, declaring all-in on A.I.
This report profiles Baidu's current developments in A.I. and related fields.
