Huawei S Hiai Engine Powers P20 Pro S Artificial Intelligence Features

Huawei unveiled its flagship P20 and P20 Pro late last month at an event in Paris, featuring a revolutionary triple camera setup, AI features, and more.

To complement the ASR engine, HiAI also includes a natural language understanding (NLU) engine, but it’s also not available outside Chine as of the moment. The NLU engine allows computers to understand the human voice which facilitates more natural communication between them. Capabilities of the NLU engine include word segmentation, text entity recognition, emotive tendency analysis, and machine translation. On top of that, HiAI Engine also includes:

While the features seem promising it’s too early to say how the HiAI engine will benefit the smartphone ecosystem. Since the engine is now available for developers, it won’t be long before we see apps that make use of the engine.