SENSORY

In 1994, long before 'voice AI' was a common term, Sensory Circuits was founded by the father and sons team of Forrest, Mike, and Todd Mozer. Initially, their playbook focused on hardware, creating the first commercially successful speech recognition integrated circuit, the RSC 164. This chip brought voice capabilities to consumer products, embedding the technology directly onto devices. A pivotal moment arrived in 2000 with the acquisition of Fluent Speech Technologies. This move provided Sensory with the core software technology that would define its future. Recognizing the industry's direction, the company made a strategic shift around 2005, moving from a hardware and software model to focus exclusively on licensing its embedded AI software. This transition allowed Sensory to partner with major electronics manufacturers, embedding its technology into billions of consumer devices from companies like Samsung, Google, and Microsoft. The company continued to expand its capabilities through strategic acquisitions, including a line of speech synthesis chips from Texas Instruments in 2002 and the voice technology testing firm Vocalize.ai in 2019. While Sensory has remained a privately held, venture-backed company without a major IPO or acquisition event of its own, it has become a fundamental, though often unseen, player in the voice-enabled technology we use daily. Led by CEO Todd Mozer, the company has quietly powered the voice revolution from the edge.