Conversation Training Tool and Conversational Search Solution for
Spanish-speaking Users Offer Providers More Customization Capabilities
SANTA CLARA, Calif. & AMSTERDAM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Rovi Corporation (NASDAQ: ROVI) today introduced new industry first
features to its Rovi
Conversation Services to deliver more personalized entertainment
discovery experiences to consumers. With the introduction of the
Conversation Training Tool, the entertainment industry’s first
innovative voice search solution, Rovi now offers service providers more
robust customization capabilities. This allows them to distinguish their
offerings and tailor their conversation platforms specifically to their
customers’ lifestyles. Rovi also unveiled support for Spanish, making
Rovi Conversation Services the first natural language conversational
search solution available for the world’s second most spoken language.
Rovi is also introducing an enhanced Voice Gateway to expedite and
simplify deployment of voice-based services.
The Conversation Training Tool is an intuitive solution that allows
providers to introduce new use cases. The tool enables providers to
train the natural language understanding (NLU) engine by adding custom
entity and intent values to the system and connecting to new data
sources. By facilitating unique queries in any domain, Rovi Conversation
Services can be customized to incorporate new functionality for
subscribers, such as the addition of sports trivia, movie listings, or
even weather forecasts.
The advanced platform features a new, enhanced Voice Gateway, a flexible
mediation layer providing customers with a single point of integration
for automatic speech recognition (ASR) and natural language systems.
This makes it more efficient, easier, and faster for customers to roll
out Rovi Conversation Services to subscribers, and effectively use ASR
solutions with a single point of integration.
“Our customers rely on Rovi to help them bring new value propositions to
customers. As an industry leader in entertainment discovery, we are
constantly seeking to uncover new ways to advance our voice-based
semantic search and recommendation technology for Rovi Conversation
Services,” said Michael Hawkey, senior vice president and general
manager of discovery, Rovi. “The new age of digital entertainment is
opening a realm of possibilities to our customers, and our latest
features further enhance the discovery experience by offering even more
capabilities that provide support for our customers to customize and
meet the needs of their consumers. By introducing industry first
solutions and features, Rovi continues to push the boundaries in
personalized entertainment discovery experiences.”
Rovi Conversation Services provides a fluent, error-tolerant, voice
solution that delivers an entertainment discovery experience exceeding
today’s typical command-driven voice systems. The next-generation
conversation interface powers free-flowing dialogue that delivers fast
and contextually relevant search results. Rovi achieves this through
predictive semantic intelligence and a deep understating of
entertainment within a real-world context.
Rovi Conversation Services is powered by Rovi’s dynamic Knowledge Graph,
which maintains semantic, real-time information on more than 100 million
entertainment-related entities, like program titles, celebrity names,
brands and other relevant elements. This enables Rovi to anticipate
viewers’ preferences by applying a range of contextual relevance filters
that take into consideration the time of day, day of week and location.
Rovi will showcase its comprehensive suite of discovery and monetization
solutions during IBC 2015 in Stand G01, Hall 14. Learn more about
Rovi and the company’s IBC show announcements at http://www.rovicorp.com/ibc2015.
About Rovi Corporation
Rovi is leading the way to a more personalized entertainment experience.
The company’s pioneering guides, metadata and recommendations continue
to drive program search and navigation on millions of devices across the
globe. With a new generation of cloud-based discovery capabilities and
emerging solutions for interactive advertising and audience analytics,
Rovi is enabling premier brands worldwide to increase their reach, drive
consumer satisfaction and create a better entertainment experience
across multiple screens. Rovi holds over 5,000 issued or pending patents
worldwide and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Discover more
about Rovi at Rovicorp.com.
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