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Sensory, Inc.
575 N. Pastoria Ave.
Sunnyvale, CA 94085-2916
Tel: 408-625-3300
Fax: 408-625-3350

About Sensory

Sensory, Inc. is a profitable and fast-growing privately held company focused on improving the user interface in consumer electronics through speech recognition, speech synthesis and other speech technologies. Sensory sells both IC and embedded software solutions.

Sensory was founded in 1994 and has put speech recognition into over 50 million products, from hundreds of leading consumer electronic manufacturers including Hasbro, JVC, Kenwood, Mattel, Sony, and Uniden. Sensory has sold more dedicated speech recognition IC’s than all its competitors combined, and is also the market leader in voice biometric IC’s. Sensory’s recent introduction of the BlueGenie™ Voice Interface for Bluetooth devices is creating waves throughout the Bluetooth industry and is getting rave editorial and customer reviews.

Sensory’s flagship RSC line of low-cost speech chips perform speech recognition, speech and music synthesis, speaker verification, and general purpose microcontroller functions.

Other Sensory IC’s include the SC line for speech and music synthesis purposes. Sensory’s IC’s are widely used in consumer electronics applications including telephones, home automation, toys, remote controls, automotive, security, learning aids, and other markets where speech input and output is desirable.

Sensory’s FluentSoft™ SDK allows developers to incorporate technologies including speech recognition, continuous digit dialing, animated speech, and text-to-speech on many different platforms and operating systems. The FluentSoft products are small footprint, large vocabulary solutions perfect for automotive, wireless handset, PC/PDA, set top box and other home automation applications. FluentSoft runs on leading microcontroller and DSP’s (ARM, Intel, Motorola, TI, etc.) and on the most popular operating systems (WinCE, Symbian, Linux, PalmSource, etc.).

Sensory’s customers represent the leaders in consumer electronics, including such companies as Hasbro, JVC, Kenwood, Mattel, Mitsubishi, Toshiba, Uniden, Sony and more. Sensory is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA, and has offices in Portland,OR, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Vienna.

Sensory's Speech Technology Advisory Board
Along with Sensory's internal technologists, Sensory has several noted researchers and pioneers from the field of speech technology and neural processing that participate in Sensory's technology board.
	Dan Jurafsky is an Associate Professor of Linguistics and Associate Professor by Courtesy of Computer Science at Stanford University. A MacArthur Fellow, Dan brings expertise to the board in the areas of machine and human processing of language, natural language processing, speech recognition, speech synthesis, and dialogue, and computational psycholinguistics, with an additional focus on Chinese computational linguistics.

	Nelson Morgan is the Director of the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI). He is also is a Professor-in-residence in the EECS Department at the University of California at Berkeley, where he received his Ph.D. as an NSF Fellow in 1980. He has been working on problems in signal processing and pattern recognition since 1974, with a primary emphasis on speech processing. He holds a number of patents in speech processing methods, including one that is currently being used in millions of CDMA cell phones. His current research interests include the redesign from first principles of the primary signal processing used in speech recognition systems, and the use of neural networks for the design of these new features.

	Dr. Forrest S. Mozer is one of Sensory's original cofounders. He received his Ph. D. from California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1956, and joined the Physics department at UC Berkeley in 1966. He invented and patented the first integrated circuit speech synthesizer in 1974, and also invented and received over a dozen patents on unique techniques for time domain speech coding in the mid 1970's. These inventions collectively became termed as the Mozer Waveform Coding approach to speech synthesis and were widely used for the creation of the worlds' first talking consumer products and software games. In 1984, Mozer co-founded Electronic Speech Systems (now ESS Technologies) to develop and market speech synthesis systems based on his patents. His work in speech synthesis led to ideas of how to create a single-chip speech recognizer. In 1994, Mozer and his sons Todd and Mike founded Sensory Circuits, Inc. which is now Sensory, Inc.

	Dr. Mike Mozer is also a cofounder of Sensory, Inc., and is currently a professor in the department of Computer Science and Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has worked on applications of neural networks to problems in artificial intelligence and engineering, including compiler optimization, speech recognition, and adaptive control of building energy systems.

	Professor Jan P.H. van Santen CV is the head of both the Biomedical Computer Science (BMCS) and the Center for Spoken Language Understanding (CSLU). He is also currently a member of the management committee of the Special Interest Group on Speech Synthesis of the European Speech Communication Association. His background includes mathematical modeling of prosody, signal processing, and computational linguistics, and his current work focuses on biomedical applications of computer science and electrical engineering. Dr. van Santen was a principal member of the pioneering Bell Labs speech synthesis group.