Aibelive Develops Intelligent Voice Recognition

TAIPEI – Aibelive Co. Ltd. Chairman and CEO Thomas Tsai says his company has developed a speech-recognition program that uses artifical intelligence, eliminating the need for users to remember pre-programmed commands.

Dubbed the “Voice Interactive Carputer,” the program can recognize 24 languages and is able to decipher the way people speak in everyday conversation, Tsai tells Ward’s at the recent AutoTronics Taipei trade show here.

“Other cars have voice recognition, but we have a patent on a hyper-precision logical engine, which simulates the human brain,” he says.

The software, which debuts this year on laptop computers, is able to control a number of vehicle systems, including navigation, traffic, weather, email, television, movies and stock quotes, Tsai says.

The system will be introduced in vehicles next year, although Tsai declines to reveal the company’s OEM customers.

The technology will give auto makers that use it a distinct advantage over the compeititon, Tsai promises.

“We have the highest level of voice recognition in the industry,” he says. “It recognizes more and is much smarter and handles many more things through voice recognition. You don’t need to memorize a specific command; you just speak like normal.”

The system also recognizes commands in Chinese, something other technology cannot due to the complexity of the language, Tsai says.

In a vehicular application, the system will respond to commands via three microphones placed in a matrix surrounding the driver’s area, Tsai says.

Although Aibelive is based in Taiwan, an island nation located off mainland China, Tsai says the company has no plans to offer the system to Chinese auto makers.

“I prefer the U.S. or European markets, because in the Chinese market, there are lots of copyright (infringement) issues,” he says. “They (Chinese government) don’t pay attention to copyright issues. In the U.S. and Europe, laws are strict.”

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