Emotibot Technologies raised $45 million in a series B+ round, launched AI Contact Center with full-duplex voice conversational AI

Before founding Emotibot, Kenny Chien, who believes in emotional intelligence prevails artificial intelligence, has the ambition to develop a sociable chatbot with emotional understanding, just like Samantha in the movie Her, and to provide her to everyone and every business. Since then, Emotibot has created a set of multi-use case human-device interactive technology solutions combing voice, semantics, and emotional understanding together to provide an intelligent and more human-like interactive experience deployed in many enterprises serving their customers with delightful user experiences, rather than like other cold and mechanic text chatbots.

Read More: AWS Managed Services Provider Logicata Offers Free AWS Migration

With the mission of developing emotional robot, Emotibot was founded in 2015 by Kenny Chien, the former Partner Director of Engineering at Microsoft, who possesses extensive experiences in Conversational AI and Search Technology in multiple languages and led the Xiaoice and Asian Cortanta Product development, a pioneer in new AI chatbot. Emotibot is committed to developing technologies and systems on Natural Language Understanding, Automatic Speech Recognition, Computer Vision, and Multimodal Interaction with Emotional Understanding. With over 4 years of development and commercialization, it has grown to become a unique AI company focusing on all three human-device interaction channels, voice, text, and vision.

As the goal to scale up the business and capture major market share in the area of NLP and Emotional Intelligence, Emotibot has developed a full-blown machine-learning based Conversational AI platform called Bot Factory , which provides easy-to-customize chatbot applications with powerful and flexible chatbot platform, tools, and development studio, enabling customers to quickly build and deploy machine learning-based chatbot applications with no coding required. With Bot Factory consisting of the set of core NLP, Conversational AI, and Artificial Emotional Intelligence technologies, as well as all of the foundational components of NLP, Multi-Turn Contextual Dialog Flow Management, Intent Engine, Knowledge and Inference Engine, Emotion Engine, ASR & TTS, Emotibot has helped many marquee companies in China in various industries successfully deploy cost-saving and productivity-improving solution. Furthermore, Emotibot rolled out AI Sales Assistant, which helps sales force in selling with more effective selling pitch and providing real-time product and knowledge for sales pitch. With over 4 years of development, Emotibot has built Bot Factory, a machines-learning based robot composite applications development suite, empowering 2B and 2C customers to build a chatbot with no coding required, companies like Huawei, Oppo, China Mobile, SF Eexpress, VIP Shop, major banks, insurance companies, retail and e-commerce, manufacturing companies, and so on, are all customers of Bot Factory.

With the new funding, Emotibot will invest and focus on:

1. Innovating and evolving NLP and Artificial Emotional Computing technologies for multiple languages and developing virtual assistants with more advanced multimodal interaction;
2. Developing a partner ecosystem and establishing a channel partner network to expand the NLP and Multimodal applications market share, accelerating the standardization of Bot Factory platform to empower partners to develop and deploy AI solutions for both large and medium sized companies across industries.

Lead the Innovation in Conversational AI and Artificial Emotional Intelligence

In order for an AI technology-driven company to prevail, one must combine algorithmic research with product engineering and develop products on a large-scale basis. On top of that, one must be able to go to market in an efficient and scalable fashion. And that is what Emotibot has achieved in the last four years. With more and more successful deployments in major companies in China across industries, Emotibot has established its reputation as the leading Conversational AI and Emotional Intelligence provider. She has also developed several competitive advantages.

Read More: Amazon Consolidates its Tech Behemoth Title Raking $70B Sales; Promises One-Day Delivery for Prime Customers

Competitive advantage #1: in the lead of NLP track

With its own Chinese and multilingual NLP, multi-modal emotion recognition, and dialogue management, Emotibot successfully developed and launched speech recognition products, ASR and TTS, with the error rate (in real world applications) lower than the major players in the industry. Kenny, the founder and CEO, believes that the key point of AI breakthrough lies in natural language understanding. With that, only through compositing machine learning and linguistics, companies that can combine NLP and Conversational AI are more promising to take the lead. After four years of progressing and polishing, it has been ranked in the first echelon of the NLP track and been listed in the report “Cool Vendors in Conversational AI in APAC.”

Competitive advantage #2: full-duplex multi-scenario AI Contact Center (AICC)

For an AI technology company to sustain, it must combine engineering and algorithmic tasks and offer a standardized and extensible platform which enables multiple use case applications development, and that is what Emotibot has accomplished.

Emotibot AI Contact Center (AICC) is a multi-scenario AI system solution, equipped with the capabilities of full-duplex voice recognition, voice emotion, dialogue system with contextual and multi-turn capabilities, real-time knowledge recommendation for CSR, and an automatic user profile generation system. Emotibot AICC consists of Smart IVR, Speech and Dialog Quality Inspection, CSR Assistant, Customer Profile Generator, Phone Bot for automatic outbound call, CSR Training Bot, and An Insight System.

As a complete call center solution, Emotibot AICC now serves a diverse range of industries, covering banking, insurance, securities, retail, education, healthcare, smart IoT, RPA and other areas, empowering the development of intelligence in full range of industries.

Competitive advantage #3: an open platform Bot Factory

Emotibot Bot Factory is a full-stack AI platform with a development studio that allows users to build a chatbot easily and deploy quickly, equipped with machine learning models and algorithms, and extensible programming and training.

Read More: MedHub’s AI-Powered Solutions Are Disrupting Cardiology