SmartCow Launches Apollo Development Kit to Create Conversational and Advanced NLP Applications

ST. JULIANS, Malta, Feb. 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- SmartCow, an AI engineering company specializing in video analytics and AIoT devices, today introduced its new audio-visual development kit, Apollo. Built around NVIDIA® Jetson Xavier™ NX, Apollo enables developers to create applications with conversational AI capabilities.

The global Natural Language Processing (NLP) market is predicted to grow from US $20.98 billion in 2021 to US $127.26 billion in 2028 at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 29.4% in the forecast period. With 6 starter NLP examples and seamless, out-of-the-box speaker recognition, SmartCow's Apollo meets the increasing demand for development kits that simultaneously process both audio and video data using advanced AI models.

"Traditional development kits are geared toward beginner-level developers working with general purpose use cases with AI vision widely used across applications. We recognize the breadth and depth of developers out there who want a dev kit that enables them to go deeper in their research and development, including the ability to implement conversational AI and NLP," said Ravi Kiran, Founder and CEO of SmartCow. "Apollo is a specialized dev kit created to meet higher-level developers' needs and give them a way to get straight to more conversational applications."

SmartCow's Apollo development kit features onboard visual and audio sensors, including four microphones, two speaker terminals, two 3.5mm phone jacks, an 8MP IMX179 camera module, and an OLED display. In addition, Apollo features a 128GB NVMe SSD for storage and comes pre-packaged with the NVIDIA DeepStream and RIVA Embedded SDK toolkits. The 6 NLP examples showcasing the kit's unique capabilities include: text-independent speaker recognition systems; speech to text and sentiment analysis; language translations and speaker diarizations; and applications for abnormal sound and surveillance.

Apollo development kits support two programmable buttons: a default with one-key recovery to help the developers ease the procession of device recovery and a programmable button that provides flexibility for developers to add their own applications, offering them a more accessible means to developing. Moreover, Apollo is designed with a base frame that allows it to stand upright, making Apollo easy to work with.

"Edge computing technology has revolutionized the way people work, live and travel," continued Kiran. "Apollo enables developers to continue to create and build the applications that transform everyday life such as digital transformation of conference rooms, airport self-service counters, facility management, and more. By including advanced NLP to our development kits, Apollo addresses these growing needs, enabling users to create conversational edge computing applications." 

Additional Resources

• Learn More About SmartCow and Apollo at GPU technology Conference (GTC) March 21 - 24
• Learn Details on Apollo at www.apollo.smartcow.ai 
• Watch Apollo product review on YouTube
• Visit our website at www.smartcow.ai
• Follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn

About SmartCow:
Established in 2016, SmartCow is an end-to-end AI engineering company that builds hardware and software products for AI applications used by the defense industry, in smart cities and industry 4.0. Strategic partners include NVIDIA and PNY. The company is located in Malta, India and Taiwan and is expanding to Italy, France and Singapore. For more information, visit www.smartcow.ai.

Jocelynn Stidham
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