All items tagged with artificial intelligence (251)
CES 2025: An Automotive Audio Perspective
January 23, 2025 by Roger Shively

CES 2025: An Automotive Audio Perspective

Roger Shively shares his Automotive Audio perspective of CES 2025. An evolutionary year, more tempered after the explosive nature of the software-defined vehicle becoming reality last year. Narrow and Deep AI, Machine Learning, and Generative AI had their roles in developing and maintaining most of the software and platforms for automotive audio at CES 2025. The “Ploughman's Lunch” of Automotive Audio, Shively was going to call his chronicle from the automotive-filled West Hall and the Beach Lot across the street.
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CES 2025 First Impressions and Audio AI
January 16, 2025 by Joao Martins

CES 2025 First Impressions and Audio AI

A Celebration of the Art of the Possible. CES 2025 was extremely successful. Even with the impression of fewer people because of the show being even more dispersed. In this first impressions report we discuss how Edge-AI (on-device) is transforming what is possible in audio processing. And of course there was MagSafe and Qi2. USB4. Bluetooth LE Audio. Auracast. Wireless Multichannel. And much more. This is necessarily a brief first impressions editorial to follow up on a very intense edition of CES, where the business-to-business aspects of the show have intensified as predicted.
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Skyworks Introduces AI Dialog Boost Real-Time Solution at CES 2025
January 14, 2025 by Joao Martins

Skyworks Introduces AI Dialog Boost Real-Time Solution at CES 2025

During CES 2025, Skyworks presented a new software solution that makes movie dialogue significantly easier to understand without diminishing the sound quality. AI Dialog Boost is an embedded software solution that improves voice clarity and is beneficial for a wide range of media playback and capture devices. The software can be tailored to various embedded applications, ensuring improved sound quality for soundbars, headsets, TVs, radios, and other audio devices.
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Sonde Health Integrates Voice-Based Health Monitoring Technology Into Qualcomm's Snapdragon S7+ Gen 1 Sound Platform
January 10, 2025 by Cristina Costa

Sonde Health Integrates Voice-Based Health Monitoring Technology Into Qualcomm's Snapdragon S7+ Gen 1 Sound Platform

A pioneer in voice-based health tracking, Sonde Health demonstrated the integration of vocal biomarker health tracking in small-footprint chipsets for hearing aids, earbuds, headphones, and other wearables. The solution, presented at CES 2025, delivers on the promise for voice-based health monitoring technology, benefiting from the convergence of voice artificial intelligence (AI) integrated into consumer earbuds.
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EssilorLuxottica Acquires Competitor Startup Pulse Audition
January 3, 2025 by Joao Martins

EssilorLuxottica Acquires Competitor Startup Pulse Audition

EssilorLuxottica just expanded its presence in the hearing space with the acquisition of an AI-driven tech startup in France and its talented team. The company, Pulse Audition, is just one of hundred of startups currently pursuing the concept of hearing glasses, in this case adding an edge with unique AI-based speech enhancement and noise reduction processing technologies embedded in the frames. The technology promises to accelerate the Nuance Hearing Glasses project.
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STMicroelectronics NPU-Accelerated STM32 Microcontrollers Boost Edge AI Development
December 13, 2024 by Cristina Costa

STMicroelectronics NPU-Accelerated STM32 Microcontrollers Boost Edge AI Development

STMicroelectronics is making embedded artificial intelligence (AI) on-device widely available with its new STM32 microcontroller series. These new NPU-accelerated microcontrollers, which have been available to selected companies since October 2023 and are now available in high volumes, integrate accelerated machine-learning (ML) capabilities for the first time. This makes it possible to run computer vision, audio processing, sound analysis and more directly in low-power, cost-sensitive products.
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Grinn Unveils AstraSOM-1680 Edge AI Module
December 4, 2024 by Joao Martins

Grinn Unveils AstraSOM-1680 Edge AI Module

Grinn, an electronics design and engineering development house, announced the launch of its latest System on Module, the Grinn AstraSOM-1680, powered by the advanced Synaptics Astra SL1680 embedded processor. The Grinn AstraSOM-1680 is a compact, high-performance module designed to bring new capabilities to edge devices, enabling smart camera applications and AI-intensive applications such as Natural Language Processing.
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Create Your Own Privacy-Focused Voice Assistant. Open Webinar, December 10
November 29, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

Create Your Own Privacy-Focused Voice Assistant. Open Webinar, December 10

The Audio Product Development Alliance (APDA) is hosting a live webinar with Sensory, to discuss the latest evolution in voice interfaces and how manufacturers can implement product-specific voice assistants without privacy concerns. During the streaming event, Jeff Rogers (VP, Sales & Marketing, Sensory) will discuss how voice recognition, voice interfaces and voice assistants are now accessible to brands and manufacturers, creating a major opportunity for differentiation.
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Ubitium Debuts Workload-Agnostic, Universal RISC-V Microprocessor
November 22, 2024 by Joao Martins

Ubitium Debuts Workload-Agnostic, Universal RISC-V Microprocessor

Ubitium developed a breakthrough universal processor that consolidates all processing into a single, affordable chip that is able to adapt to any type of workload — from simple control logic to massive parallel data flow processing. Leveraging a RISC-V architecture, the processor could eliminate the need for multiple specialized chips, enabling advanced AI on device, at no additional cost. This would be ideal for adaptive audio, speech recognition and AI-enabled DSP in consumer electronics.
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AudioSourceRE Reshapes Music Separation with DeMIX v6
November 21, 2024 by Joao Martins

AudioSourceRE Reshapes Music Separation with DeMIX v6

AudioSourceRE, the company that has demonstrated what is possible in high-quality AI-powered audio separation technology, has announced a new level of processing accuracy and quality of results with the launch of DeMIX Pro v6. The standalone software is AudioSourceRE's main product for studio work using AI algorithms to isolate vocals and any other instruments from existing mixes. The updated version now improves quality of results, allowing playback while it is still processing with GPU and Apple Silicon hardware acceleration.
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