Strengthen scientific and technological research cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence speech! This joint innovation center was established

On June 1, the Yangtze River Delta National Technology Innovation Center and Himalaya announced the joint establishment of the "NICE-Himalaya Joint Innovation Center". The two parties will rely on the Himalayan Everest Laboratory to further strengthen scientific and technological cooperation in the field of artificial intelligence speech, and carry out horizontal industry-university-research project cooperation to jointly cultivate basic industry talents.

Carry out horizontal project cooperation between industry, academia and research institutes

As a leader in China's Internet audio and artificial intelligence voice industry, Himalaya responds to the national science and technology innovation strategy and builds an open platform for scientific and technological cooperation around the fields of audio ecology and artificial intelligence voice technology, cultivates scientific and technological innovation talents, and promotes industrial upgrading and innovative development. . In the past two years, the Himalayan Everest Laboratory has carried out industry-university-research cooperation with the University of Science and Technology of China on speaker segmentation and specific speaker separation in multi-person speech scenes, and character recognition in novel dialogue text based on deep learning; it is also working with Northwestern Polytechnical University on Carry out industry-university-research cooperation on "research and development of highly expressive and natural speech synthesis and speech conversion systems".

In the Multi-channel Multi-party Conference Transcription Challenge (M2MeT) launched by ICASSP, the top international audio conference, and Alibaba, the cooperation project between Himalaya Everest Intelligent Laboratory and the University of Science and Technology of China won third place in the speaker log track. , and the paper was included. There are also papers related to wake-up words that have been included by IEEE. Himalaya has also launched a joint scientific research project with Communication University of China around TTS sound library recording, working together to create dozens of typical novel sounds with delicate emotional changes and soul, exploring the integration of characters' personality traits and emotional changes to achieve emotional distribution Difference effect.

In December last year, under the guidance of the Pudong New Area Science and Economic Commission, the "Himalaya Open Innovation Center", the first "Pudong Enterprise Open Innovation Center (GOI)" in the audio field, was officially launched.

The Yangtze River Delta National Technology Innovation Center is a comprehensive national technology innovation platform approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology, led by the Shanghai Yangtze River Delta Technology Innovation Research Institute, and jointly built with relevant institutions in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui. The Yangtze River Delta National Innovation Center has jointly established an "Enterprise Joint Innovation Center" with leading enterprises in industry segments to jointly conduct research on enterprise technology routes, condense the "real technical needs" that enterprises are willing to invest in, seek advanced technological solutions, and organize key technologies research and integrated innovation, etc.

The reporter learned that the "NICE-Himalaya Joint Innovation Center" established this time will rely on the Himalayan Everest Laboratory to continue to carry out industry-university-research horizontal project cooperation with R&D carriers and partner universities within the Yangtze River Delta National Innovation Center system. Promote key technology research and innovative development, cultivate basic industrial talents, and form a community integrating industry and education.

Respond to Pudong’s call to “unveil the list and take charge” to release innovation needs

Enterprises need core technologies but cannot find the source of innovation. Scientific research institutions have innovative results but do not know how to transform them. How to break through the blocking points and realize the leap from academia to industry? In January this year, Pudong New Area launched a public service platform that closely adheres to the concept of "enterprises are the main subjects of innovation". All work focuses on solving the real technical needs and technical problems of enterprises, not only promoting the improvement of independent innovation capabilities of enterprises, but also creating technological innovation needs in Pudong. A good atmosphere and innovation ecology for two-way integration with high-quality technology supply. The platform is organized and operated by the Yangtze River Delta National Innovation Center, and its project categories cover scientific research, technology development, technology research, achievement transformation, demonstration application, industrialization, etc.

The reporter learned that relying on the construction of the "NICE-Himalaya Joint Innovation Center", the Everest Laboratory has also recently actively responded to the call for unveiling and leading in the "Pudong Public Service Platform" and released a report on "Looking for Virtual Digital Human Enterprise Cooperation" partners to jointly build digital human audio capabilities", hoping to build an open platform for Internet audio and artificial intelligence voice research and development, and provide artificial intelligence voice, virtual digital human, multi-modal AIGC and other technologies to small and medium-sized enterprises upstream and downstream of the industry chain. Business cooperation opportunities such as R&D and application scenario expansion.

The establishment of the "NICE-Himalaya Joint Innovation Center" will inject great vitality and innovation power into China's Internet audio and artificial intelligence voice industry. Himalaya is planning to hold regular "Himalaya Open Day" themed activities, and will cooperate with the Yangtze River Delta National Innovation Center and its cooperative universities and research institutes within the system, as well as regional empowered partners, to organize related themed technologies such as artificial intelligence and the metaverse. Matchmaking sessions, sharing sessions, etc. invite all parties to enter the Himalayas and stimulate innovation vitality. At the same time, we will also give full play to the advantages of the audio content platform and continue to empower small and medium-sized enterprises.

Source: Pudong Release

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