SmartAlex -
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- 2. A solution that brings “Life” in the consumer products – Makes it interact, Speak, Feel – So much so that you emotionally connect to it and refer to it as “Alex” ! SmartAlex® is “A voice assisted socially aware hybrid platform solution, capable of intelligent social interaction and assistance“. The solution can be deployed/integrated within any product - be it a consumer/enterprise product, any smart device or any M2M solution. SmartAlex seamlessly interacts with Altiux or any third party cloud platform/solutions and appends voice features to it also it rapidly builds social intelligence, quickly adapts and learns from the environment and puts in use that critical intelligence in assisting social circles/hubs. In addition SmartAlex® also designed to magically integrate with ‘Social Automation’ solution viz. Home Automation, Office Automation or any Minimum development/Integration effort for deployment in existing customer solutions or end products Smart Social Cloud Intelligence framework that builds on the Intelligence rapidly Configurable solution platform for resident/cloud/hybrid intelligence Secured* Always listening feature and Configurable consumer friendly wake up command for active responses Fast and accurate Speech recognition services, powered by Nuance* Speech Engines Scalable to adapt/configure to any cloud automation platform
- 3. M2M/enterprise* automation and appends the existing automation solutions with voice assisted control and convenience features. SmartAlex® solution deployed in home automation (Convenience, Control) is depicted above, one possibility being solutions integrated in Multimedia speakers as platform applications.
- 4. SmartAlex® platform solution is capable of getting deployed with any network enabled system having listen (Mic) and Talk (Speaker) functionality. The platform solution is scalable to work with remote microphones (if required) for accurate natural human interaction. SmartAlex® solution can work with multiple products having such solutions deployed in any social hub. It gathers its intelligence from each one of them and decides on the action to be performed. SmartAlex® Platform Overview SmartAlex platform has 3 key component engines to accomplish the goal of “A voice assisted, socially aware, interactive social assistance solution” vCoCo® (Voice Command and Control) Engine o Analyse the voice command and act to control sSense® (Social Sense) Engine o The social awareness intelligence with always ‘Mic ON’ feature o Analyse speech and build social intelligence sAssist® (Social Assistance) Engine o In contrast to Personal voice assistance on smartphones, Social Assistance has different flavour of operation o Analyse the voice and respond back with necessary information sSense Engine vCoCo Engine sAssist Engine Sensor Data Control User Input/ Data Voice Assistance SmartAlex® ‘RAVI’ Rapid Analytics of Voice Intelligence
- 5. SmartAlex® innovatively brings Users and their Machines closer, makes both the worlds interact in a given social environment. Unlike the traditional thought of user independent automation, SmartAlex® integrates both the worlds and interacts with end users - Sharing useful, relevant information for making consumer experience better. The solution gradually builds its social intelligence and awareness bringing much needed consumer delight. Comprehensive Platform Features: SmartAlex® cloud platform for voice enablement of any M2M/IoT platform Baby Alex SoC support for integration - having Resident/Hybrid/Cloud backend service Configurable Critical Resident CoCo Solutions (Convenience and Control) for environments having low/no connectivity to internet Platform powered by Altiux patented ‘RAVI’ Engine (Rapid Analytics of Voice Intelligence engine) having o Social awareness o Context awareness Altiux proprietary ‘sSense’, ‘sAssist’ and ‘vCoCo’ engines Proprietary ‘ReachAlex’ feature to rapidly identify Alex over any IP network for remote convenience and control applications Integrates with various over-the-air service provider features for opted push functionalities o News readouts o Music streaming o Any other form of content delivery over voice
- 6. ® Architecture – Satellite View Altiux CCCP or any other Platform providers Commands to Altiux or 3rd party cloud CCCP Connection to home Gateway Home Ecosystem Baby Alex Connected VDK + Resident Speech processing and Engines Connected home status read Control and Command Information Voice data information Voice channel If Baby Alex VDK present then vxml 1. Voice Authorization 2. Voice Intelligence Engines a. sSense b. vCoCo c. sAssist 3. Voice Data Analytics 4. Voice Social Circles Device Platform Loosely Coupled Connection Nuance/Google etc. Speech Engines Speech input/output Text input/output
- 7. ® enabled Application Infrastructure Home1 Ecosystem Home2 Ecosystem HomeN Ecosystem M2M Connected Cloud Platform Nuance/Google Voice Engines Voice Cloud API Layer M2M Cloud Platform API Layer Social Interface Open API’s Open API’s Restricted API’s M2M Smart Home Automation Application Voice + Data
- 8. ® Roadmap 3PP – 3 Phase Plan Phase I Small All Cloud Solution – Voice enabled Smart Home Features and Functionalities: 1. Voice Platform/Application a. Voice Authentication b. Interface definition i. Input to system platform solution: Voice / Text ii. Output from system platform system: Voice /Text iii. Interaction definition with CCCP c. Circle Framework definition 2. Gateway (Dummy) a. Enabler for SmartAlex demonstration b. Connected Speaker + Microphone (Single Unit) - WiFi 3. Wakeup and Act Module – ‘Alex’ keyword (Configurable keyword) 4. vCoCo – Control and Convenience Circle a. Sensor Control i. Basic Commands ii. Confirmation readouts b. Autonomous Intelligence i. Basic Sensor control (Part Energy Saving) Phase1 Phase2 Phase3Apr 2014 Aug 2014 Nov 2014 Detailed System Architecture design Feb 2014
- 9. Phase II Semi Resident and Cloud Solution – Voice enabled Smart Home Features and Functionalities: 1. vCoCo a. Comprehensive Home Command and Control ‘Circle’ i. Voice authentication for varying accessibility profiles b. Other prototype circles i. Kitchen ii. Personal Manager iii. Primary Enterprise 2. Framework integration a. vCoCo, sAssist and sSense 3. sAssist a. Basic dialog manager (Integration) b. Social Assistance i. Weather ii. Search (Information) iii. Travel iv. Maps v. Health c. Voice personal and social circles i. Remote voice session with SmartAlex ii. Session with other SmartAlex’s (From home) 1. Integrated with other sSense 4. sSense a. Autonomous Intelligence framework i. Presence b. Data acquisition from different sensors 5. Gateway (Competency showcase) a. Local Processing (Minimal Speech recognition) b. Microphone Nodes (Arrays) c. Gateway voice receptors and processors (Noise etc)
- 10. Phase III Voice enabled Smart Home – Comprehensive solution Features and Functionalities: 1. Maturing the engines vCoCo, sSense, sAssist 2. Adding on the Circles to accommodate more usecases 3. Data Analytics and Deep learning a. M2M/IoT data – Home 4. Integration API’s for any Artificial Intelligence framework as a wrapper a. To be explored