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Conexant Delivers AudioSmart Voice Solutions for Baidu’s New DuerOS AI Development Kits and Reference Designs
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Conexant Delivers AudioSmart Voice Solutions for Baidu’s New DuerOS AI Development Kits and Reference Designs

Conexant announced a collaboration with Chinese company Baidu to release development kits and reference designs for far-field voice-enabled artificial intelligent (AI) devices running on Baidu’s DuerOS platform. The development kits and reference designs will be powered by Conexant's CX20924 4-microphone and CX20921 2-microphone voice input processing solutions. DuerOS is a conversation-based AI system that already supports access to a voice-activated digital assistant for mobile phones, TVs, speakers, and other devices.
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Cirrus Logic Announces Voice Capture Development Kit for Amazon Alexa Voice Service
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Cirrus Logic Announces Voice Capture Development Kit for Amazon Alexa Voice Service

Cirrus Logic introduced a development kit for Alexa Voice Service (AVS), optimized for smart speakers and smart home applications including voice controlled devices, hands-free portable speakers and networked speakers. With the Cirrus Logic IC and software design, the Voice Capture Development Kit for Amazon AVS helps manufacturers quickly get to market with new Alexa-enabled products that feature high-accuracy wake-word triggering and command interpretation even in noisy environments and during music playback.
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Sensaphonics Publishes Isolation Metrics for In-Ear Monitors
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Sensaphonics Publishes Isolation Metrics for In-Ear Monitors

Sensaphonics, a company devoted to hearing health in in-ear monitors, has published a study showing the broadband isolation achieved with its proprietary soft-silicone earpieces, with broadband attenuation averaging 34 dB. According to Sensaphonics, this distinguishes the company's products and challenges other IEM manufacturers to document isolation, the most important factor to consider when comparing IEMs.
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Google Releases Do-It-Yourself Voice Recognition AIY Project
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Google Releases Do-It-Yourself Voice Recognition AIY Project

With many audio manufacturers and consumer electronic companies experimenting development with voice recognition applications, Google naturally wants to make it easy as possible for anyone to get familiarized with the company's Google Assistant SDK, to implement voice interaction. Billy Rutledge, Director of AIY Projects at Google, recently revealed a new voice recognition DIY kit and voice HAT for the Raspberry Pi.
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Audio Engineering Society Confirms Annual US Convention to Stay in New York and Reinforced Partnership with NAMM
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Audio Engineering Society Confirms Annual US Convention to Stay in New York and Reinforced Partnership with NAMM

Audio Engineering Society President, Alex Case confirmed in a statement that the association's annual International Convention in the US will stay in New York also in 2018, leveraging the strong synergies with NAB Show New York that will occur for the first time concurrently with the 143rd International AES Convention, October 18 to 21, 2017, at the Jacob Javits Center. For the West Coast, the AES will reinforce its AES@NAMM partnership with the NAMM Show, in Anaheim, CA.
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iFlyTek On-Device Speech Recognition Software Now Available For CEVA's Ultra-Low Power Audio/Voice DSPs
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iFlyTek On-Device Speech Recognition Software Now Available For CEVA's Ultra-Low Power Audio/Voice DSPs

CEVA, a leading provider of signal processing solutions for smart, connected devices, announced that an optimized implementation of iFLYTEK's speech-recognition software suite is available for CEVA's audio/voice DSPs. The tightly-integrated solution is now available for developers, and the company confirmed it will start production of an ultra-low power voice processor targeting high-volume consumer electronics.
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DTS Play-Fi powers DISH Music App on Hopper DVR
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DTS Play-Fi powers DISH Music App on Hopper DVR

DISH launched DISH Music, a mobile app powered by DTS Play-Fi technology to provide the ability to sync music throughout the whole home using one central control. This new feature uses TV audio systems connected to DISH Hopper 2 or Hopper 3 DVRs, as well as DTS Play-Fi-enabled speakers, to play music from personal libraries on mobile devices and popular streaming services, like Amazon Music, iHeartRadio, Pandora and TIDAL.
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Legrand Acquires US company Milestone AV Technologies LLC
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Legrand Acquires US company Milestone AV Technologies LLC

French company Legrand, a world leader in electrical and digital building infrastructure solutions, announced the acquisition of US group Milestone AV Technologies for $950m. Milestone is the group that owns well-established Audio Video (AV) infrastructure brands, including Chief mounts and racks, Da-Lite screens, Projecta screens, Sanus AV mounts and furniture, and Vaddio conference and PTZ cameras.
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Dirac Research Equips Select NAD Electronics Amplifiers with Dirac Live Room Correction
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Dirac Research Equips Select NAD Electronics Amplifiers with Dirac Live Room Correction

Strengthening its commitment to provide an unparalleled home theater listening experience, NAD Electronics announced a strategic partnership with Swedish sound enhancement technology specialists, Dirac Research. The partnership will incorporate the Dirac Live room correction solution into upcoming, select products in NAD Electronics’ Masters and Custom Install lines, designed and manufactured by Lenbrook International.
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Blackfire Research Introduces New Wireless Real-time Entertainment Distribution Framework
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Blackfire Research Introduces New Wireless Real-time Entertainment Distribution Framework

Blackfire Research Corp., a wireless network specialist from San Francisco, CA, announced the availability of Blackfire RED, or Real-time Entertainment Distribution framework. The company says that Blackfire RED is the industry's only wireless and entertainment-centric infrastructure software framework built from the ground up to both overcome the limitations of Wi-Fi when used for media, and wireless entertainment-related consumer applications and products.
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