Sensory, Inc.

Sensory, Inc. is a Santa Clara based company which develops and makes speech technologies on both hardware (Integrated Circuit - IC or "chip") and software platforms for consumer products, offering IC and software-only solutions for speech recognition, speech synthesis, speaker verification, music synthesis.

Sensory’s products are used in consumer electronics applications including mobile, automotive, Bluetooth devices, toys, and various home electronics. To date, more than 40 mobile handsets, tablets, and wearables have shipped with Sensory’s TrulyHandsfree in volumes of hundreds of millions.

Sensory, Inc. was founded in 1994, originally as Sensory Circuits, by Forrest Mozer, Mike Mozer and Todd Mozer. The three had also co-founded ESS Technology years earlier. In 1999 Sensory acquired Fluent Speech Technologies, which was formed and started by a group of professors out of the Oregon Graduate Institute (formerly OGI, now OHSU). Fluent Speech Technologies developed high performance embedded speech engines, the technology from this acquisition is now the core technology used throughout Sensory’s chip and software line.

Sensory develops and makes speech technologies on both hardware (Integrated Circuit - IC or "chip") and software platforms. Sensory's RSC-164 IC (Integrated Circuit or "chip") was used on NASA’s Mars Polar Lander in the Mars Microphone on the Lander. Speech Synthesis SC-6x chips – acquired some speech synthesis technology from Texas Instruments.

NLP-5x chip: Capable of handling complex grammars and context-specific natural language recognition. Software also includes TTS, Truly HandsfreeTM Voice Contril, MP3 and MIDI playback and MUCH more. New hardware includes multi-channel 16-bit ADC and DAC, LCD and motor control logic, hardware interfaces (USB, SPI, UART, etc.), OTP memory (for fast and flexible programming), general purpose I/O and memory bus, and much more.

RSC-4x series processors: The industry standard in programmable, flexible, fully integrated speech recognition processors for cost sensitive applications. The chips can provide speaker-independent (SI) and speaker-dependent (SD) discrete word recognition, speaker verification (SV), speech and music synthesis, as well as full-product control. All are supported by best-in-class demo units, compilers and development tools.

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