Artificial intelligence processing firm Sensory Inc. today announced the launch in beta test mode of its new SensoryCloud.ai service, providing a full “AI as a service” platform for companies that want to process voice and vision AI in the cloud.

Sensory said the new offering enables AI processes around speech to text, sound identification, wake word verification, facial recognition and speaker identification, with additional use cases to be added in future. The software can be used to build AI capabilities in devices such as smart speakers.

The company reckons the advantage of SensoryCloud.ai is that it gives customers full control over how their AI systems are deployed and how the data they generate is managed and accessed. It also boasts a platform-agnostic AI inference engine that’s accessible through an easy-to-use application programming interface.

Sensory is a company that has traditionally supplied AI processing services at the network edge, not the cloud. However, it said many of its embedded clients have shown a desire for a cloud-based AI processing service that provides greater freedom than is available from the traditional public cloud service providers.

Sensory Chief Executive Todd Mozer explained how the company paired its expertise in building fast, accurate AI models with some of the “brightest and freshest minds” in cloud computing.

“The result is a hybrid cloud platform that uses state-of-the-art AI to address customers unique needs for control, flexibility, cost, accuracy, reliability, features, latency, and privacy,” he said.

The company made some impressive claims regarding SensoryCloud.ai’s performance, saying that its speech to text engine shows a typical word error rate within trained domains of less than 5%, for example. As for its wake word verification service, it claims this can reduce false alarm events by up to 90% versus similar solutions.

Sensory said it will be present at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas Jan. 5-8 to demonstrate the capabilities of the SensoryCloud AI platform to attendees.

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