Dopamine.ai partners with LangNet to accelerate innovation in voice technologies

Uri Yerushalmi
Dopamine.ai
Published in
3 min readAug 21, 2018

We are pleased to announce that we have partnered with LangNet, the decentralized ecosystem for language-based applications and technologies.

Dopamine and LangNet share the same vision with respect to the importance of decentralized data ownership and untapped monetization opportunities for data providers.

While Dopamine builds a Decentralized Collaborative Processing Networks (DCPN) in which data and AI providers are incentivized to supply various services that consumers can easily pipeline for their own specific needs, LangNet harnesses the power of the crowd to aggregate a rich and vast voice data repository to accelerates innovation in Language AI, put users in control of their data and share value equitably across the ecosystem.

Currently, most data and AI intellectual property (IP) is owned by firms with deep pockets, leaving smaller enterprises with highly expensive end to end services; as a result, independent developers or firms with comparatively small IPs struggle to keep and monetize their IP.

Dopamine uses blockchain technology to develop a network of rewards and interactions that protects IPs, incentivizes collaboration among parties, allows flexible transfer of knowledge among different players and synergizes various data and AI players .

At the same time, LangNet enable anyone around the globe to contribute language data in exchange for tokens. Collected data include voice recordings of users reading a sentence to train speech-to-text systems and personal commands for a voice assistant. Data is owned by the contributor and can be licensed out to developers for tokens.

Data ownership and usage are tracked on chain. An inflation model pays out data contributors and service providers — data hosts, data validators and data curators — on a regular basis. Data consumers lock or burn tokens to access resources.

Through this partnership, LangNet will integrate with Dopamine’s platform as a voice data provider. Developers and enterprises on Dopamine’s platform will be able to access LangNet’s growing repository of language resources and run campaigns to rapidly crowdsource the voice datasets and the models they need in order to build new applications in different languages and for new uses cases. Consumer developers and enterprises on Dopamine’s platform can easily and affordably secure necessary voice data to train their speech models. Providers on the Dopamine network will enjoy new monetization possibilities that would arise from new possibilities to pipeline voice data, and LangNet users can explore new demand and gain access to broader markets to earn from licensing their voice data.

About Dopamine.ai

Dopamine.ai is a blockchain data and AI platform and marketplace. Its network enables a massive number of data and AI providers to collaborate while getting rewarded and enabling construction of faster and more accurate decentralized AI solutions. Dopamine.ai disrupts the current oligopolistic data & AI ecosystem, where an entity needs to put massive amounts of resources to control the whole pipeline of data and AI solution construction. For more information about Dopamine.ai, visit www.dopamine.ai

About LangNet (The Language Network)

LangNet is a decentralized, open ecosystem for language technologies that support voice assistants, smart speakers, chatbots and conversational agents. We enable users to contribute language data in exchange for tokens, and developers can run campaigns to rapidly crowdsource the data and models they need to build new applications in different languages and for new uses cases. Blockchain and our utility token enable us to track contributions and share value equitably and in a decentralized way across the ecosystem. More information is available on our website.

www.dopamine.ai

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Uri Yerushalmi
Dopamine.ai

👨‍💻Tech: Software-Dev/Crypto/Protocols/AI 👔Biz: Entrepreneurship/Algo-trading/Management 🎓PhD: Neuroscience/GA 🔴Managing Founder of Dopamine.ai