Clova, the voice assistant of LINE artificial intelligence, will be able to control a variety of smart home appliances, and will cooperate with TOYOTA to enter the in-vehicle system, and will also launch a smart speaker in the shape of a little soldier.
In this LINEConferencfe218 event, LINE further announced the development progress of Clova, an artificial intelligence voice assistant under LINE, which includes adding support to interact with more connected home appliances, increasing Clova's skill platform, preparing to launch ClovaFriends and ClovaFriend *** ini smart speakers in the shape of little soldiers, and planning to use DNN-TTS technology based on deep learning to deepen the role development of Clova. In terms of outward expansion, it is planned to cooperate with TOYOTA on ClovaAuto platform, so that Clova digital assistants can further enter the vehicle platform.
after Microsoft, Apple and Google successively enabled their digital assistant services to interact in a way that is closer to the real human voice and natural language expression, LINE also announced that it would use DNN-TTS technology based on deep learning to enable its voice assistant Clova to learn and imitate clear and real oral expression with the least amount of information (about one tenth of the original technology, about 4 hours of sound information), so as to enhance the realism of the interaction between users and Clova.
for the skill expansion part of Clova, LINE plans to enable developers to create different application skills for Clova voice assistants through the SkillPlatform. The first wave will join Tokyo Express Electric Railway Co., Ltd.' s TokyulineApp, Lawson's application service that can immediately listen to in-store broadcast information, and more content provided by 34 partners. In the future, Clova will continue to have more application skills through cooperation with third-party developers.
At present, LINE is expected to launch ClovaExtensionKit from July, and Clova Technology Store is expected to launch in the middle and late July, so that users can expand more Clova application functions through this pipeline.
At the same time, LINE also announced that it will make Clova correspond to networked household appliances with brands including PhillipsHue, it *** unications, Qrio, Glamo, Sharp, Secual, Toshiba, Panasonic, Mitsubishi, RATOCSystems, LIXIL, LinkJapan and Rinnai, so that users can
Enter the in-vehicle application
In terms of ClovaAuto service expansion, LINE has also decided to cooperate with TOYOTA, and it is expected to be applied to TOYOTA's new cars this winter, so that users can receive LINE messages through voice control, make free voice calls to LINE during driving, or listen to music through LINEMusic.
In addition, users can use the official account of LINEMyCar, so that they can pre-set the navigation destination through LINE service before getting on the bus, or confirm the information such as the current gasoline residue of the vehicle. At present, this function will be used corresponding to TOYOTA's new Crown, CorollaSport and PriusPHV.
more hardware devices will be launched
As for the Clova smart speaker previously launched, LINE announced that it will launch the Clova smart speaker of LINEFRIENDS Small Soldier this fall, and distinguish between ClovaFriends and ClovaFriend *** ini, among which the original function of talking with the Small Soldier is the same. ClovaDesk, which is expected to be launched this winter, is a Clova smart speaker with a screen design. In addition to its voice assistant service function, Clovadesk can also display various image information on the screen, or allow users to have video conversations through the lens shooting function, and it also has infrared remote control linkage function.
As for the expansion accessories of the existing Clova smart speaker, LINE announced that it will launch the base accessories with the original infrared remote control function, so that LINEClovaFriends or LINEClovaFriend *** ini can also have the infrared remote control function equivalent to that provided by ClovaWAVE.