On November 19, the vivo 2020 Developer Conference with the theme of "Original Things" was held in Shenzhen. As an important partner of vivo and a leading input method brand in China, Sogou Input Technology Director Han Lianhua was invited to attend the conference and delivered a speech on the technical advantages of Sogou input method's multi-mode input and the prospect of deep cooperation and innovation with vivo computing acceleration platform VCAP. And said that the two sides with their own technology, data, service as the fulcrum of the strong alliance will bring a subversive jump in mobile phone input performance, so that hundreds of millions of mobile phone users to obtain more efficient, convenient, intelligent input experience.
As a wisdom input tool covering the whole field, Sogou input method takes the leading position in the industry in terms of share, reputation and influence. The combination of Sogou input method and vivo AI acceleration platform VCAP also means the accelerated integration of system, technology and application. While providing vivo users with more extreme input experience, It also returns the aesthetics of science and technology to its ecological origin.
At the beginning of the 5G era, mobile Internet has opened a broader space. vivo also proposed in the conference that it would build personal information infrastructure for comprehensive digital life in the 5G era based on user needs, while the bottleneck of development in the computer field lies in the speed, accuracy and idealized memory model which is difficult to be realized.
To solve this problem, the Computing Acceleration Platform (VCAP) was further optimized after a year of upgrading and polishing. Model layer, VCAP supports the model transformation of mainstream training framework through self-defined model format; In the tool layer, VCAP provides visual tools, improves quantitative compression tools, and adds a tool set for mobile terminal deployment to help developers improve development and deployment efficiency. In the framework layer, VCAP upgrades the memory overcommitment mechanism and expands the end-to-end training capability to reduce memory consumption and provide personalized services. At the runtime layer, VCAP expands the support of algorithm structure, achieving breakthroughs in CPU quantization acceleration, DSP self-developed parallel acceleration, NPU capability fusion and other aspects.
With the support of VCAP, Sogou input method in the actual application of pinyin, handwriting and other modules input experience has been significantly improved. The accuracy of pinyin input, input performance and other key indicators have been greatly optimized. While the recognition accuracy of handwriting input is more than 98%, the handwriting recognition time, memory occupation and model volume are greatly reduced, which makes the performance of handwriting input get a subversive leap.
With the rapid development of global science and technology in recent years, intelligent applications represented by AI technology are subverting traditional science and technology, releasing great imagination space. AI technology is rapidly linking human will and device behavior in all areas where people interact with devices. As an essential text interaction field, Sogou input method is imperceptitiously integrating AI technology into People's Daily life and work to improve the efficiency of people's life and office.
(Handwritten input interface of Sogou Input method APP: Only two strokes of the word "love" are needed)
At the same time, thanks to the application and promotion of AI technology, the imagination space of text interaction mode is also opened up. Han Lianhua mentioned that Sogou input method will also be combined with vivo OriginOS system in the future, enabling AI capabilities to a full range of life input scenes, to provide a variety of information recommendation services and a smarter and more convenient human-computer experience.
Sogou input method has a huge stock of users, technical advantages and long-term national reputation and multi-scene service experience, is vivo to meet the needs of users to meet the diversified communication goals. Openness, empowerment and win-win results have also become the key to ecological cooperation between the two countries. Han Lianhua said that Sogou input will also join hands with vivo to build a smart tool under the mobile Internet ecology in the future, improve human-computer interaction experience, promote barrier-free information communication, and make expression and knowledge acquisition simpler.
