Introduced at the “Barcelona Mobile World Congress” in February, the Clova technology exists in LINE’s new smart-home speakers, WAVE and the smaller CHAMP, as the company’s response to the growing technological advancements of the day. Clova’s response mechanisms are tailored to process language in a more natural way, meaning that its responses are geared toward being more “human”. The importance of its human-likeness factor is stressed in LINE chief technology officer Euivin Park’s way of referring to Clova. [Clova] is aimed to be a virtual assistant that is close to our daily lives. Machine learning is just a component of the virtual assistant,” she explained at the recent “LINE Developer’s Day” summit in Tokyo.

Source: The Nation Bangkok October 10, 2017 12:00 UTC