BEIJING, Nov. 6, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Sogou Inc. (NYSE:
SOGO) ("Sogou" or "the Company"), an innovator in search and a
leader in China's internet industry, yesterday
demonstrated its personalized speech synthesis technology and style
transfer learning technology during the company's third quarter
2018 earnings call.
This technology can convert Chinese or English text into a
synthesized voice that is highly similar to an individual's natural
voice.
Xiaochuan Wang, Chief Executive
Officer of Sogou, leveraged the technology to deliver his prepared
remarks during the company's third quarter 2018 earnings call. This
marks the inaugural use of speech synthesis technology during an
earnings call.
Xiaochuan Wang said, "I am very
pleased to demonstrate the cutting-edge technologies that have been
developed at the Sogou Voice Interaction Technology Center. This is
just one of the potential applications of this technology."
Wang also demonstrated this technology at the RISE conference
held in Hong Kong in July and at
Tsinghua University's first European Alumni Conference held in
London in October. On both
occasions, the speech synthesis technology was used to synthesize a
song that replicated and was sung in Wang's voice. This was
developed by combining 14 minutes of Wang's speech data, his style
of singing and the original version of the song.
Sogou's personalized speech synthesis technology stands out
against that of peers as it simulates a person's voice in his or
her style.
Speech synthesis technology is just of several AI fields in
which Sogou already holds a leading position. The company has
deployed AI to empower its core businesses and to build competitive
advantages in cutting-edge fields, such as voice recognition,
computer vision, machine translation and Q&A.
Safe Harbor Statement
This announcement contains forward-looking statements. It is
currently expected that the Business Outlook will not be updated
until release of Sogou's next quarterly earnings announcement.
However, Sogou reserves the right to update its Business Outlook at
any time for any reason. Statements that are not historical facts,
including statements about Sogou's and Sogou management's beliefs
and expectations, are forward-looking statements. These statements
are based on current plans, estimates, and projections, which
involve inherent risks and uncertainties. We caution you that a
number of important factors could cause actual results to differ
materially from those contained in any forward-looking statement.
Potential risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to,
intense competition in the market for search and search-related
services; our need to continually innovate and adapt in order to
grow our business; our reliance on Tencent platforms for a significant portion of
our user traffic; and uncertainty regarding the extent and reach of
PRC governmental regulation of sponsored search. Further
information regarding these and other risks is included in
Amendment No. 2 to Sogou's Registration Statement on Form F‑1
(Registration No. 333-220928) filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission on November 6,
2017, and other documents Sogou files with or submits to the
Securities and Exchange Commission.
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.
For media enquiries, please contact:
Rachael Layfield
Brunswick Group
Tel: +86 10 5960-8600
Email: sogou@brunswickgroup.com
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