Google Inc - 1, Platinum Patron

Our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful, and AI is enabling us to do that in incredible new ways - solving problems for our users, our customers, and the world. AI makes it easier for you to do things every day, whether it’s searching for photos of people you love, breaking down language barriers, or helping you get things done with your own personal digital assistant. But it’s also providing us with new ways of looking at old problems and helping transform how we work and live, and we think the biggest impact will come when everyone can access it.

Speechocean

Speechocean is capable of providing various types of large databases and data-related services in many languages and accents such as data designing, collecting, transcribing, annotating and linguistic services and other related processing services for many technical fields such as speech synthesis, speech recognition, machine translation, nature language understanding and etc.

JD.com - 3, Gold Patron

JD.com, Inc, also known as Jingdong, is a Chinese e-commerce company headquartered in Beijing. It is one of the two massive B2C online retailers in China by transaction volume and revenue, a member of the  Fortune Global 500.

JD.com leverages artificial intelligence to enhance several facets of its business, drive growth and foster innovation. JD uses computer vision, machine learning, natural language processing, virtual reality, speech recognition and related computational approaches and techniques to enhance its capabilities in e-commerce, smart supply chain, smart logistics and fintech, among other areas.

Amazon - 4, Gold Patron

More than 100 million Alexa-enabled devices have been sold.  The Amazon Devices Audio and Alexa AI teams provide scientists and engineers the opportunity to have their inventions deployed at global scale.

The Amazon Audio team is a highly motivated and talented group of engineers and scientists on a mission to bring the most innovative and smart audio products to customers from initial product concepts, to prototyping, development, and manufacturing.

The Alexa AI team’s mission is to build world-class AI technologies in natural understanding and decision-making that makes Alexa the most natural and trusted assistant for our customers. The goal of the team’s scientists and engineers is to make interacting with Alexa as natural as conversing with a human.

Our multi-disciplinary teams employ our working backwards method to identify key long-term problems to solve on behalf of our customers.  It’s this customer-focused approach to science that allows our scientists and engineers to positively impact the lives of millions of customers through scientific invention.

Linguistic Data Consortium

The Linguistic Data Consortium is a non-profit organization hosted by the University of Pennsylvania whose mission is to support language-related education, research and technology development by creating and sharing linguistic resources, such as data, tools and standards. After more than 25 years as the leader in language resource development and distribution, LDC continues to provide to the community large quantities of diverse data, research support and high quality membership services. Human language technology development, artificial intelligence and related fields are changing rapidly and need effective digital resource delivery, greater language coverage, new data genres, fast, cost-efficient annotation processes and flexible tools. The Consortium successfully meets those challenges and will continue to do so with the support of members, licensees, sponsors and collaborators.

Sony Corporation - 6, Bronze Patron

Since its founding in 1946, Sony has always been seeking to create unique products and lifestyles, bringing fresh emotion and wonders to its customers. In order to bring greater joy and entertainment to people around the world, we have in addition to Electronics expanded into new areas of business such as Games, Pictures, Music, Mobile Communications and Financial Services. Sony believes that today's rapid pace of change is a time of unlimited opportunities and possibilities.

Sony is committed to continually seeking unique and talented individuals who share our spirit in pursuing "Dreams", "Emotions", and "Innovations". We look for your enthusiasm, creativity and imagination and invite you to join us to create an exciting future together. If you have a dream, an imaginative mind and a passion to share your innovation with everyone, come and join us!

Apple Inc. - 7, Diamond Patron

We’re a diverse collection of people, reimagining what’s possible to help us do what we love in new ways. The people who work here have reinvented entire industries with the Mac, iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, and with services, including iTunes, the App Store, Apple Music, and Apple Pay.

DefinedCrowd Corporation

DefinedCrowd offers an intelligent data infrastructure for AI, that provides high-quality training data to help machine learning oriented products reach market quicker and with better quality. We offer efficient data workflows that enable data scientists to collect, synthesize, enrich and structure training data, by combining human intelligence, automatic tools, and machine learning capabilities to accelerate enterprise machine learning and Artificial Intelligence initiatives. Our value proposition is 95-98% quality, speed (5-10x faster than competition) and scale (46 languages covered). With strong expertise in speech and natural language processing technologies, the company has been serving top AI companies and Fortune 500 companies since day one. DefinedCrowd Corporation is a company based in Seattle, WA, USA, with R&D centers in Lisbon and Porto, Portugal, and Tokyo, Japan.

The Institution of Engineering & Technology

We are the IET and we inspire, inform and influence the global engineering community to engineer a better world. As a diverse home across engineering and technology, we share knowledge that helps make better sense of the world in order to solve the challenges that matter. It’s why we are uniquely placed to champion engineering.

Audio Analytic

Audio Analytic is the global leader in intelligent sound recognition, using cloudless AI to provide consumer technology with a wide sense of hearing beyond speech and music. At the heart of the company is a technology platform made up of two synergistic parts:

• Alexandria™ is the world’s largest commercially-usable audio dataset for machine learning, featuring millions of audio files that are structured taxonomically with full data provenance.
• AuditoryNET™ is a highly-optimised deep neural network for sound recognition, which models the ideophonic features of sounds.

In addition to core technology are nearly 50 experts in acoustics, data, machine learning and embedded software engineering.

The company has successfully licensed its technology to major global brands, including two of the world’s biggest companies, Hive, Iliad, Sengled and others. The company has partners including Arm, Intel, Knowles, Ambarella, Ambiq, Vesper, Frontier and others.

Beijing Huiting Technology Co., Ltd

Beijing Huiting Technology Co., Ltd is a professional multimedia data service provider. Our corpus production team has more than ten years of experiences in providing high quality corpus for speech recognition, speech synthesis, speech quality evaluation, and multimedia research. Our corpus production team is supported by an outstanding research and development team, comprised by the researchers and engineers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences Research Institutes and top universities. Our corpus is recorded in our ITU standardized recording chamber with professional equipment. During the corpus production process, we supervised the whole workflow ensuring a flawless labeling process for our high quality data services.

Appen

Appen is a global leader in the development of high-quality, human-annotated datasets for machine learning and artificial intelligence. Appen brings over 20 years of experience capturing and enriching a wide variety of data types including speech, text, image, and video. With deep expertise in more than 180 languages and access to a global crowd of over 1,000,000 skilled contractors, Appen partners with technology, automotive, and eCommerce companies — as well as governments worldwide — to help them develop, enhance, and use products that rely on natural languages and machine learning.

Surfing Technology Beijing Co., Ltd

Surfing Technology Beijing Co., Ltd is a DaaS (Data-as-a-Service) platform for AI companies. Founded in 2017, our team consists of industrial experts from top universities and former management executives from leading tech firms.

With a deep understanding of the data-related pain points in the development of AI algorithms, we independently designed and processed data in scientific ways, producing high-value speech recognition and face recognition datasets optimized for training AI speech and facial algorithms. For data solutions to autonomous driving, we are one of the few companies in the world to provide 3D to 2D synchronous annotation solution.

Our data solutions have been verified by top companies worldwide including various eminent tech firms in Silicon Valley. Most importantly, we are always optimizing and upgrading our data solutions in order to provide the best products and services to our clients.

Facebook -18, Gold Patron

Giving people the power to share and connect requires constant innovation. At Facebook, research permeates everything we do. We believe the most interesting research questions are derived from real world problems. Working on cutting edge research with a practical focus, we push product boundaries every day. At the same time, we publish papers, give talks, and collaborate broadly with the academic community.

Springer Nature

Springer Nature is one of the world’s leading global research, educational and professional publishers, home to an array of respected and trusted brands providing quality content through a range of innovative products and services. Springer Nature is the world’s largest academic book publisher, publisher of the world’s most influential journals and a pioneer in the field of open research. The company numbers almost 13,000 staff in over 50 countries and has a turnover of approximately EUR 1.5 billion. Springer Nature was formed in 2015 through the merger of Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, Macmillan Education and Springer Science+Business Media. Find out more: www.springernature.com

Magic Data Technology Co., Ltd

Magic Data Technology Co., Ltd. is one of the leading domestic providers of artificial intelligence data services in the world. We are committed to providing a wide range of customized data services in the fields of speech recognition, intelligent imaging and NLU. Through rigorous quality control measures, we strive to offer top-notch, individualized training data sets to meet our clients’ distinctive needs. Magic Data provides both pre-annotated training datasets available for immediate purchase and customized data solutions, including human-in-the-loop exception handling. Magic Data employs a vast team of skilled data specialists and has a wide network of consultants around the world to assist with specific data needs.

Yahoo Japan Corporation

Yahoo! JAPAN is one of the most well-known portal site in Japan.

Microsoft

Microsoft Research is where leading scientists and engineers have the freedom and support to propel discovery and innovation. Here, they pursue and publish curiosity-driven research in a range of scientific and technical disciplines that can be translated into products. With access to vast computing power, global multi-disciplinary teams tackle complex problems that drive breakthrough technologies and improve lives.

Nuance Communications

Engineering unparalleled experiences- It’s hard to get through a day without experiencing Nuance. We lead innovation in intuitive, award-winning conversational AI that adapts to each business and every unique situation. Our solutions don’t just hear and speak. They understand, analyze, anticipate, reason and resolve. We don’t just make artificial intelligence: we make sure it works the way you want it to.

Databaker (Beijing) Technology Co.,Ltd.

Databaker Technology headquartered in Beijing, we deep ploughing intelligent voice interaction, providing the overall solution of speech synthesis and data services.
The first to use Attention mechanism to train TTS model and develop an end-to-end high-quality sound quality system in China.
Combined with high precision automatic pre-processing technology to processing data , with this we launch a series of intelligent voice solution that suitable for industries and scenes, which goes deeper into the industry and closer to the human voice.

Datatang (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd.

Datatang is a trusted data assets company engaged in enlarging our database to meet our clients’ various needs. Our database covers image, speech and text data for different AI application scenarios like ASR/TTS, Smart Home, In-car Entertainment, etc. For clients who need data customization services, Datatang has always been an expert in data collecting, annotating and customizing. We’re keeping long-term cooperation with our clients, and view their success as ours.

Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is a not-for-profit publisher that dates from 1534 and is part of the University of Cambridge. Our mission is to unlock people's potential with the best learning and research solutions by combining state-of-the-art content with the highest standards of scholarship, writing and production. Visit our stand to discuss publishing with us, browse our latest publications, and pick up some free journal samples. All the books we have on display are available for purchase at a 20% discount.

MathWorks

MATLAB and Simulink are fundamental computation tools used at more the 5,000 educational intuitions worldwide. MATLAB is one of the top 10 most popular programming languages and is used for teaching, research, and project-based learning. Add MATLAB and Simulink to the classroom to inspire critical thinking and innovation as well as prepare students for prominent careers in industry, where the tools are the de facto standard for R&D. Learn more at mathworks.com

ByteDance

Bytedance is a leading technology-driven mobile internet company. It has top technical and product teams with a culture of innovation and perfection. 

SoundHound, Inc.

SoundHound Inc. turns sound into actionable meaning. Through our voice AI platform, Houndify, we’re enabling humans to interact with the things around them in the same way we interact with each other: by speaking naturally to mobile phones, cars, TVs, speakers, and every other part of the emerging ‘connected’ world.

IBM

At IBM Research, we invent things that matter to the world. Today, we are pioneering promising and disruptive technologies that will transform industries and society, including the future of AI, blockchain and quantum computing. We are home to 3,000+ researchers including 5 Nobel Laureates, 9 US National Medals of Technology, 5 US National Medals of Science, and 6 Turing Awards.

ASAPP

We’re building AI-Native Products for transformational outcomes by delivering automation and work simplification to solve some of the world’s most complex problems.

LINE Corporation

Based in Japan, LINE Corporation (NYSE:LN/TSE:3938) is dedicated to the mission of “Closing the Distance,” bringing together information, services and people. The LINE messaging app launched in June 2011 and since then has grown into a diverse, global ecosystem that includes AI technology, FinTech and more.

Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) does fundamental and applied research in artificial intelligence, signal processing, control, optimization and multi-physics modelling. We are an open lab, publishing our results, collaborating with the world-wide research community, and measuring our performance by the impact we have on Mitsubishi Electric and the world.

Analog Devices Inc.

Analog Devices (Nasdaq: ADI) is a leading global high-performance analog technology company dedicated to solving the toughest engineering challenges. We enable our customers to interpret the world around us by intelligently bridging the physical and digital with unmatched technologies that sense, measure, power, connect and interpret. 

Hitachi, Ltd. Research & Development Group

In our history of over a century of product development, Hitachi has continued to innovate technology in its pursuit of higher performance and reliability that our customers expect. This technology and know-how has been aggregated in the Research and Development Group, and spans nine fields of technology expertise: Energy, Electronics, Mechanical engineering, Materials, Systems engineering, Information and Telecommunications, Controls, Production engineering, and Healthcare.

This rich and diverse technology pool has been further specialized into 39 technology platforms. Innovative products and services are generated by moving beyond the boundaries of individual products to flexibly employ the beneficial technology in realizing novel ideas derived from addressing challenges faced by customers.

MDPI

A pioneer in scholarly open access publishing, MDPI has supported academic communities since 1996. Based in Basel, Switzerland, MDPI has the mission to foster open scientific exchange in all forms, across all disciplines.

Journal of The Franklin Institute

As the second oldest continuously published American Journal devoted to science and technology, the Journal of The Franklin Institute has an established reputation for publishing high-quality papers in the field of engineering and applied mathematics. Its current focus is on control systems, complex networks and dynamic systems, signal processing and communications and their applications. The editorial board encourage authors to put forth evolving new topics for publication provided they fall broadly within the scope of the journal. Additionally, special issues with a strong conceptual foundation in newly evolving topics are continuously planned for future issues. All submitted papers are peer-reviewed. Furthermore, all manuscripts submitted are judged upon their possible lasting value, which has been and continues to be the strength of the Journal of The Franklin Institute.

Samsung Research UK

At Samsung R&D UK we are at the forefront of technology with new areas of focus in Artificial Intelligence and Data Intelligence research and development, along with our already long established expertise in our specialist areas of Security, IOT, Telecoms, Graphics and Audio Visual Development and Standardisation. We are more than a business. We are a global community, hiring and developing the best talent from around the world with over 30 nationalities represented in our office. Our focus is on constantly striving to innovate and deliver cutting edge technology. We are looking for diverse and creative individuals who are passionate about technology to join our team!

Now Publishers Inc.

Founded in 2004, Now Publishers has built a reputation as a source of excellent peer-reviewed publications in business, economics, computer science, and engineering. Their leading product series, Foundations and Trends® (FnT) offers peer-reviewed, state-of-the-art reviews of specific subjects that act as “go to” resources for graduate students and senior researchers looking for high-level introductions to new topics.

IEEE GlobalSIP 2019 Ottawa

The 6th IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP) will be held in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada on November 11-14, 2019. GlobalSIP focuses on signal and information processing with an emphasis on up-and-coming signal processing themes. The conference features world-class plenary speeches, distinguished symposium talks, tutorials, exhibits, oral and poster sessions, and panels. GlobalSIP is comprised of co-located General Symposium and symposia selected based on responses to the call-for-symposia proposals.

ICASSP 2020

The ICASSP meeting is the world's largest and most comprehensive technical conference focused on signal processing and its applications. The 2020 edition of the conference will feature world-class speakers, tutorials, exhibits, and over 50 lecture and poster sessions and will be held during the dates: 04 May - 09 May in Barcelona. ICASSP’2020 will be held at the Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona (CCIB), http://www.ccib.es/. The center is located in the Diagonal Mar area, the newest section of Barcelona’s seafront and right next to the heart of the technology and business district (Barcelona 22@). The CCIB is unique in Europe for the impact and originality of its architecture, for the versatility of its column-free meeting halls and spaces and for the superb use it makes of the warm, natural Mediterranean light.

River Publishers

Incorporated in Denmark, and with offices in The Netherlands, Japan, USA, UK and India, River Publishers is active in many areas of Science and Technology, and we publish peer reviewed research books and journals in these fields.
We pride ourselves by being flexible in our approach towards publishing and copyrights, internationally oriented, author and client friendly, and our content is indexed in leading databases such as the Web of Science Book Citation Index and Scopus.
We welcome new book proposals on innovative research, and invite readers to visit our portfolio of regular and Open Access books and journals at: www.RiverPublishers.com

ELSEVIER

Elsevier is a global information analytics business that helps scientists and clinicians to find new answers, reshape human knowledge, and tackle the most urgent human crises. For 140 years, we have partnered with the research world to curate and verify scientific knowledge. Today, we’re committed to bringing that rigor to a new generation of Elsevier platforms. Our applications put users in control and enable faster, more efficient ways of working, freeing up users to focus on their goals. We help researchers discover new content and collaborate with people beyond existing networks, and we help institutions track and analyze the impact of science, supporting great research performance. Clinicians use our platforms to make better decisions at the point of care. By freeing the flow of ideas, our platforms help advance the application of science to the most pressing questions of our time.