Sogou Maps Intelligent Co-pilot Launches New Direction for AI

Artificial intelligence is undoubtedly one of the most popular concepts at present. Almost all top Internet companies are planning artificial intelligence, but so far, there are few applications that can be truly implemented. While most domestic and foreign companies focus their attention on smart homes and compete to launch smart speakers, Sogou Maps has taken a different approach and applied voice interaction technology to the more promising field of daily travel. It is the first to create an intelligent co-pilot that supports users to interact with voice throughout the entire process, completely freeing the driver's hands and eyes, and bringing users a more intelligent, safe, and convenient driving experience and fun.

Sogou Map Smart Co-pilot can perfectly support all kinds of in-car vertical scene dialogues with full voice, including voice location check and navigation initiation, voice setting of waypoints, voice setting of routes, voice asking of road conditions, voice search along the way, voice checking of surrounding areas, and voice operation of maps. For example, when the user says "I want to go to Olympic Forest Park", Sogou Smart Co-pilot will further interact "Are you going to the South Park or the North Park of the Olympic Forest Park?" After determining the South Park or the North Park, the Smart Co-pilot will plan a suitable route and give the path calculation and estimated arrival time. During the navigation process, when the user asks "Is there a traffic jam ahead?", Sogou Smart Co-pilot will also give a prompt whether the road ahead is a slow-moving section. If the user temporarily changes the location, the route can also be quickly replanned through pure voice interaction. When the user asks "Is there a parking lot near Olympic Forest Park" and "Is there a good place to eat", the Smart Co-pilot will also recommend nearby parking lots and restaurants according to the user's needs, and inform the price, distance, etc., and give the user the most suitable choice through intelligent analysis and comparison.

Kong Xianglai, head of Sogou Maps, said that Sogou Maps has taken the lead in achieving a major breakthrough in the industry by implementing full-round multi-round voice interaction, which is mainly due to Sogou's excellent comprehensive technical capabilities such as voice recognition, semantic understanding, intelligent error correction, intelligent search, and intent analysis. With 240 million voice requests per day, Sogou has accumulated a large amount of voice corpus data, especially in terms of noise environments and accent data. It is these high-quality data training volumes that have brought Sogou industry-leading voice recognition technology.

At present, Sogou Maps has achieved a 97% accuracy rate in voice recognition after being optimized for geographic location. Considering that the ambient noise in the car may affect the voice recognition effect, Sogou Maps has also customized a noise reduction solution for the in-car environment, including wind noise, echo, erhua sound filtering and voice error correction functions, which effectively reduce surrounding interference and further improve the recognition rate. In terms of comprehensive capabilities such as semantic analysis and context understanding, Sogou Maps also has unique advantages. With its massive user big data and leading artificial intelligence technology, Sogou Intelligent Navigation supports more than 100,000 semantic networks throughout the human-computer dialogue, which can segment scenes, and handle dialogue needs in a fine, accurate and reliable manner to reach user intentions.

Industry insiders believe that Sogou Smart Co-pilot combines map data and voice technology, and further connects in-car control and out-of-car services, making map products enter the "full voice" era. This not only promotes technological innovation in the entire map industry, but also makes voice interaction a new application direction in the map field, allowing intelligent voice technology to enter a larger service space. At the same time, the launch of Sogou Smart Co-pilot is also a new attempt by Sogou to dig deep into the vertical field of navigation and create functional artificial intelligence, which undoubtedly opens up a new development direction for the implementation of the entire artificial intelligence technology application.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.