Shulou(Shulou.com)11/24 Report--

On November 1, the 2023 vivo developer Conference ended successfully in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, with a main venue and several sub-venues with the theme of "working together". Among them, at the information accessibility conference with the theme of "AI is OK, Voice is interesting", the vice president of vivo, vice president of OS products and director of vivo AI Global Research Institute shared vivo's technical achievements and future prospects in the barrier-free field, and announced the official launch of the third phase of vivo's "sound and interest" public welfare program.

User-oriented, to create the ultimate AI technology barrier-free products

As a leading technology company, vivo has been committed to making scientific and technological innovation benefit everyone, bridging the digital divide, and continuously promoting the construction of auditory care, visual care and care for the elderly. Over the years, vivo insists on user-oriented innovation, deeply understands users' needs, breaks through the technical difficulties of barrier-free products in algorithm, computing, data, engineering and other aspects, and creates a series of AI technology barrier-free products that surprise users, bringing more convenient, easier to use and more intimate product experience for visually impaired and hearing impaired users. In addition to the previously released accessibility features such as vivo listening and speaking, accessible calls, voice recognition and AI subtitles, this year vivo also launched a number of new blockbuster barrier-free products such as sign language interpreters, vivo seeing and vivo reading.

In terms of hearing impaired products, as the only mobile phone manufacturer in the world that supports Chinese sign language recognition, sign language interpreters integrate the leading AI technology capabilities, which can help people with hearing impairment establish links with the outside world through sign language, bring them more natural and efficient communication, and become sign language interpreters who better understand them.

In terms of visually impaired products, vivo mainly launched two blockbuster products: vivo sight and vivo spectrum reading. Vivo is the first product to support the landing of GPT on the NPU platform, and the fine-grained effect of end-to-side image description has reached the industry-leading level. It can support visually impaired users to quickly obtain the information of the surrounding environment, objects and even the status of others in the case of weak or no network, and use speech recognition and speech synthesis technology to describe and broadcast. For visually impaired users who love and learn music, vivo has created a vivo music reading function that can listen to music, which fills the gap of domestic mobile phone music reading software and provides more possibilities for the interest development of visually impaired users.

In addition to launching several blockbuster products, vivo also integrates barrier-free products with self-developed blue heart models into strategic planning direction, continues to refine the AI features seen by vivo, and is expected to officially release the blue heart upgrade version seen by vivo in the first half of next year, bringing users more intelligent experiences, including more intelligent environment identification, identification such as food instructions, remote controls, etc. Even intelligently recommend clothing matching, break through the blue heart model to provide convenient experience and other functions, so that visually impaired users can also experience the intelligent and convenient experience brought by the blue heart model developed by vivo. Vice President of vivo, Vice President of OS products, and Director of vivo AI Global Research Institute said at the meeting: every user's ideas and demands are closely related to vivo. We are committed to making users resonate with the world in the same frequency and sound, so that everyone can equally enjoy the good life brought about by scientific and technological progress. We will continue to dig the information accessibility track and insert wings for users to pursue their dreams!

Speech by Vice President of ▲ vivo, Vice President of OS products and Director of vivo AI Global Research Institute the third phase of the "sound and interest" public welfare program has been officially launched.

For a long time, vivo has been firmly committed to the barrier-free track, not only to create leading technology products for users, but also to work with partners to continuously implement public welfare activities. Since 2021, vivo and China hearing Medicine Development Foundation have launched the "sound and interest" public welfare program, which aims to improve the communication status and quality of life of hearing impaired people through research and upgrading of barrier-free functions, public donation of barrier-free equipment, joint research and public assistance, and to create a more friendly information-accessible social environment. Since 2021, the Voice and interest program has supported 133 hearing-impaired parents to "listen" to the needs of their children, provided employment skills training for 500 hearing-impaired young people, and held a number of user communication workshops so that users' real ideas and demands can be heard and adopted, which has also promoted the iterative upgrading of vivo accessibility.

The launch ceremony of the third phase of the ▲ Sound interest Program is the third phase of "Voice interest" this year. Vivo will launch a campaign for students with disabilities in special schools in China. First of all, vivo will donate barrier-free equipment to disabled students in special schools in China to help students improve communication and learning efficiency and build barrier-free communication in their dreams. Secondly, vivo will open opportunities for hearing-impaired and visually impaired users to participate in the construction of vivo information accessibility function, and put forward ideas and demands directly to vivo engineers. Third, vivo will join hands with excellent mentors to go to special schools to provide career development training for students, so that more friends with hearing and visual impairment can open up more possibilities in life.

At the end of the activity, at the round table communication session on the topic of "breaking the isolated island of information with AI technology" Yang Hua, Secretary-General of Shenzhen Information accessibility Research Association, Xie Weiqin, Director of vivo AI solution Center, Tao Yujia, Information accessibility engineer of Lianyi, Zheng Xuan, professor of Beijing normal University, and du Yinling, up master and voice public interest user of deaf culture, jointly discussed the difficulties of barrier-free technology and how AI empowers information accessibility development from the perspectives of industry, users, technology and so on.

▲ "break the isolated island of information with AI technology" round table forum to continue to work on the barrier-free track is the unswerving mission of vivo. In the past few years, vivo has not only launched a series of barrier-free products based on the innovation of AI technology in the field of accessibility, providing more convenience for visually and hearing impaired users, but also actively helping special groups better integrate into society and life through the "sound and interest" public welfare program. In the future, vivo will continue to give full play to its own advantages, continue to explore and innovate, create leading science and technology products, implement public welfare actions, and help the development of barrier-free areas.

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