BEIJING, Aug. 13, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Sogou Inc.
(NYSE:SOGO) ("Sogou" or "the Company"), an innovator in search and
a leader in China's internet
industry, recently scores big wins partnering with Norhtwestern
Polytechnical University, China in
the Deep Noise Suppression (DNS) Challenge at Interspeech 2020.
As the world's largest technical conference focused on speech
processing and application, Interspeech 2020 enjoys extensive
attention from industry authorities. The DNS Challenge hosted by
Microsoft aims to maximize the perceptual quality and
intelligibility of the enhanced speech, which has attracted both
industry giants such as Amazon, Facebook, Sony as well as top
research institutions including Carnegie
Mellon University, John Hopkins University, Seoul
National University and University of
Science and Technology of China.
Sogou's AI Interaction Division cooperates with Audio, Speech
and Language Processing Group at Northwestern Polytechnical
University (ASLP@NPU), China in
this year's DNS Challenge and beats Amazon by 0.03 MOS, winning
first in Real-time track. The joint research paper DCCRN: Deep
Complex Convolution Recurrent Network for Phase-Aware Speech
Enhancement has also been accepted by Interspeech 2020 and will be
shared at the conference.
The secret behind the winning is the leverage of Deep Complex
Convolution Recurrent Network (DCCRN) in speech enhancement
process, which performs better than traditional real-valued
convolution in noise suppression. Compared to a traditional
real-valued neural network, complex convolution network uses
complex multiplication which effectively improves the modeling of
real and imaginary parts. The recent research on DCCRN network
structure will be further adopted in Sogou's product roadmap.
Speech enhancement technology aims at reducing environmental
noise and improving speech quality thus has a wide range of
applications. Sogou S1, a premium AI-powered smart recorder
features its proprietary PureVoice noise-canceling technology that
can eliminate up to 40,000 types of unwanted noises to ensure
recording quality. S1 can also convert audio to text at high speed
with an accuracy rate of 98%, making it the top-notch AI products
on the market. As the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting the globe and
more people are working remotely, conference calls with better
noise reduction and voice enhancement will also be in high
demand.
Sogou has always attached great importance on the development of
spoken language processing, with continuous effort on strengthening
our investment and exploration in cutting-edge AI technologies. In
the future, Sogou will expand its effort in speech recognition
frontiers and offer the benefits to its industry partners and
users.
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About Sogou
Sogou Inc. (NYSE: SOGO) is an innovator in search and a leader
in China's internet industry. With
a mission to make it easy to communicate and get information, Sogou
has grown to become the second-largest search engine by mobile
queries and the fourth largest internet company by MAU in
China. Sogou has a wide range of
innovative products and services, including the Sogou Input Method,
which is the largest Chinese language input software for both
mobile and PC. Sogou is also at the forefront of AI development and
has made significant breakthroughs in voice and image technologies,
machine translation, and Q&A, which have been successfully
integrated into our products and services.
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Sogou
Public Relations
Tel: +86 10 5689 9999 (61958)
Email: press@sogou-inc.com
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