Netmarble's Deep Learning Technology 'Monica' Unveiled at Canadian AI Conference

[Asia Economy Reporter Bu Aeri] Netmarble will showcase deep learning-based mobile voice recognition technology at the NeurIPS 2020 conference held in Vancouver, Canada, starting next month on the 6th.

According to Netmarble on the 4th, the conference is the world's most prestigious artificial intelligence conference, covering research in various AI fields such as machine learning, big data, and audiovisual information processing.

Netmarble will reveal the 'MONICA' technology at the demo session of this conference. MONICA is a technology that has lightweighted a deep learning-based speech recognizer to a level that can be installed in mobile games for the first time in the world. MONICA passed the evaluation with a perfect score.

Ansunam, team leader of Netmarble AI Center, said, "Voice user experience (UX) required for mobile games is very important in terms of recognition rate and response speed, so we are focusing on continuously improving these aspects," adding, "We have developed the world's first speech recognizer that responds with high accuracy and fast response speed within mobile devices, focusing on enhancing game users' immersion."

He continued, "MONICA is a lightweight model that uses six times less memory and has three times faster computation time than the 'Speech Transformer,' the most advanced deep learning-based speech recognizer, making it operable on mobile devices," and explained, "Deep learning-based speech recognition is not limited to a specific language, so it is highly useful for developing multilingual supported games."

Oh Insu, director of the AI Center, said, "We expect to provide better convenience features to game users through the development of voice recognition technology running on mobile," and added, "We plan to sequentially apply this technology to global titles to be released by Netmarble in the future."

Meanwhile, Netmarble has been providing the wake word recognition technology (wake word MONICA) applied to 'A3: Still Alive,' which was released last March.

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