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

Sensory was founded in 1994 and has put speech recognition into over 70 million products, from hundreds of leading consumer electronic manufacturers including Hasbro, JVC, Kenwood, Mattel, Motorola, Plantronics, Sony, Uniden, and V-Tech. 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. and speech technologies deployed in Bluetooth™ devices such as carkits and headsets.

Sensory’s recent introduction of the TrulyHandsfree™ Voice Control technology is revolutionizing the speech technology industry for a wide variety of hands-free consumer applications. This technology is getting rave editorial and customer reviews for making smart phone usage smarter and safer while driving, and for improving the overall mobile user experience by seemlessly interacting with other leading speech technology providers to provide completely hands-free solutions.

Sensory’s flagship RSC line of low-cost speech chips perform speech recognition, speech and music synthesis, speaker verification, and general purpose microcontroller functions. The recently introduced NLP-5x chip builds upon the success of its predecessor by ushering in a new era of accuracy for embedded speech recognition and high quality for sound output with features like TTS (text to speech synthesis) and MP3 playback.

Sensory’s FluentSoft™ SDK allows developers to incorporate technologies including speech recognition, continuous digit dialing, and text-to-speech on many different platforms and operating systems. The FluentSoft products are small footprint 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 (Android, iPhone, Windows Mobile, Symbian, Linux, etc.)

Sensory is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, and has offices in Portland,OR, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Vienna.