We build smart stories for smart devices

AI Story Agents Bridge Living Past With Our Future

​We are building AI's that will help journalists, students, teachers, museums, and writers formulate articles, reports, and curated experiences. Our AI story agents allow people with access to next-generation voice assistants such as Google Home to learn more about  people, traditions, heritage and history in a fun, and accessible way. 
Conversational AI: The Next Generation of Storytelling
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​Stories ignite our sense of adventure, give context to history and help shape the cultural identity of the world around us. Technology can shape how we consume stories, whether through radio, television, or podcasts. The next generation of audio storytelling will use AI to interact with you in your living room, kitchen, and car. ​

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AWARD WINNING STORYTELLING FOR SMART DEVICES

Conversational chatbots like Siri, Alexa, and Google Home are taking the internet by storm.
But they are all lacking one thing: Cultural AI. 

​​Sina Storyteller received the Project Voice Worldwide 2021 Google Assistant Developer of the Year award as well the Medal for Diversity and Inclusion. ​Through Sina, IVOW’s mission is to make AI more culturally conscious and relevant to the needs of humanity in this modern world.​

Meet Sina​
​IVOW's AI Storyteller

 ​​Available as a prototype on Google Home, Sina (SEE-na) is a storyteller for smart devices. You can ask her about recipes or traditional celebrations from cultures around the globe. Sina combines the power of AI with ancient storytelling wisdom to create an interactive, customizable, and culturally-specific user experience. 

AI STORYTELLING

Conversational chatbots like Siri, Alexa, and Google Home are taking the internet by storm.
But they are all lacking one thing: Cultural AI

Meet Sina​
​IVOW's AI Storyteller

 ​​Sina (SEE-na) can suggest recipes from around the world in real-time, while providing the cultural context behind each dish. Sina combines the power of AI with ancient storytelling wisdom to create an interactive user experience that is culturally-specific, narrative-rich, and customizable for global appeal.
​A prototype of Sina Storyteller is available on Google Home, and she is also available as a “digital human” thanks to our collaboration with Soul Machines.

BRINGING DIVERSITY TO AI

Current AI technologies and the datasets underlying them are lacking in diversity, which can play a role in perpetuating harmful historical biases. 
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Meet HypatiaStories​
AI AGENT WHO SHARES STORIES ABOUT AMAZING WOMEN

Stories of women in the fields of AI and data science have often been left untold, but HypatiaStories is here to change that. She is an AI voice storyteller who can tell you crowdsourced narrative stories about amazing women in data and AI, from the earliest pioneers to the young women of today who will become tomorrow's leaders.

Her namesake is Hypatia, the famous philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician, who lived in Alexandria, Egypt circa 350 AD.
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HypatiaStories was born out of the urgent need to incorporate women's stories into AI discovered during the Women in History Data Ideation Challenge, led by a partnership between IVOW and Topcoder. As a result of this project, Topcoder nominated IVOW as a finalist in their customer innovation awards, which recognize the most influential projects of the year that are “downright cool, edgy, important, and disruptive."

BRINGING CULTURAL CONTEXT TO AI

As the storytelling species, human beings transmit knowledge through stories and traditional recipes handed down from generation to generation. By creating structure around the stories of our ancestors, we can foster inclusive intelligence in machine learning.

MEET IKG STORIES
​Stories From IVOW's Indigenous Knowledge Graph

IVOW's Indigenous Knowledge Graph (IKG) serves as a repository for traditional food recipes and culinary wisdom of indigenous peoples from all across the globe. IKGStories in a conversational AI agent who can tell you about the traditional recipes of American indigenous peoples.
The IKG allows people with access to next-generation voice assistants such as Google Home to learn more about food traditions in a fun, accessible way. With IKGStories, you can learn about time-tested recipes from ancient cultures that serve as a bridge between the living past and the present.​ Just ask her to share a Cherokee recipe.

PEOPLE ARE TAKING NOTICE

As a pioneer in culturally intelligent AI for business, our team has been featured in Forbes and AITrends, and we’ve presented at 70 events, including gatherings hosted by SAP, the United Nations, the Federal Identity Forum, Politico, and Stanford’s MediaX. We’ve also worked with companies including IBM Watson, Topcoder, Soul Machines, WeWork Labs, Microsoft, and KiwiTech to promote the development of inclusive datasets and cultural richness in AI.

Xprize Podcast

Online News Association

Women in AI Summit

WHY IVOW AI?

IVOW empowers our clients to enhance their technology with cultural wisdom that embraces the depth and breadth of human experience. Diverse, culturally rich datasets provide fresh insights into your customers that can inform your decision-making processes. With cultural intelligence and AI storytelling, you can personalize your content and tell stories about your brand that resonate within diverse cultures around the world.
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OUR MISSION

​To promote human connection and understanding by incorporating cultural richness, inclusive datasets, and traditional storytelling into AI. IVOW stands for intelligent voices of wisdom.