Clova (virtual assistant)

For other uses, see Clova.

Clova
Icon of Clova in Android
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Developer	Naver Corporation
Release	March 2017 (2017-03)
Operating system	Android, iOS
Available in	Korean, Japanese
Type	Intelligent personal assistant
Website	clova.ai

Clova is an intelligent personal assistant for Android and iOS operating systems developed by Naver Corporation. NAVER introduced its artificial intelligence platform Clova (styled as CLOVA, short for "cloud virtual assistant") in March 2017.

History

Clova was introduced in March 2017. The Clova platform first powered Wave, a smart speaker with voice recognition capabilities. Over time, it was expanded to include other features such as image classification, optical character recognition (OCR), dubbing, and smart home applications.

In May 2017, Clova was released on iOS and Android.

In October 2020, Naver released Clova Lamp, an AI light that reads books, which works when user opens a book under the camera on the lamp and press the book reading button or use a voice command. It supports books in English as well as Korean.

Functionality

Papago Translation

A neural machine translation service that delivers quality translation of texts into various languages.

Clova Voice

Clova Voice can create voice synthesizers with new speakers and styles from a minimum of a 40-minute long audio and text. Clova claims the technology produces synthetic voices that are natural, clean and resemble like real human speech.

Interface

Clova Interface Connect is a platform service for hardware manufacturers and IOT companies. It allows them to connect Clova to speakers, microphones, and any other internet-connected device.

See also

• Naver Whale
• Naver Papago

External links

• Official website (Korean)