All items tagged with artificial intelligence (236)
Voicemod Makes AI-Powered Sing-to-Sing Technology Available to Developers
July 5, 2024 by Joao Martins

Voicemod Makes AI-Powered Sing-to-Sing Technology Available to Developers

Voicemod's Sing-to-Sing AI technology enables users to modify their singing voice in real-time, including pitch, timbre adjustments and automatic voice tuning with features such as choir, duet, evolver and calitune. For the first time, Voicemod's Sing-to-Sing AI technology is available for third-party developers and hardware manufacturers via Voicemod's SDK, which also supports the company's Speech-to-Speech and Soundboard functionalities.
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Philips Speech and Sembly AI Collaborate to Introduce AI Meeting Transcription Solution
June 27, 2024 by Joao Martins

Philips Speech and Sembly AI Collaborate to Introduce AI Meeting Transcription Solution

Philips Speech by Speech Processing Solutions expanded its audio recorder range in cooperation with Sembly AI to introduce AI technology for automatic recording transcriptions, summaries, action lists and insights in three new products. The voice technology company based in Austria will sell three new handheld records, designed to cover different consumer needs, and all bundled with Sembly vouchers for users to try out the service and new AI capabilities with a free trial version.
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Music Industry Unites to Protect the Rights of Musicians Amid Risks of Generative AI Technology
June 26, 2024 by Joao Martins

Music Industry Unites to Protect the Rights of Musicians Amid Risks of Generative AI Technology

More than fifty prominent music companies, associations, and institutions globally have added their support to the “Principles for Music Creation with AI” manifesto. Introduced by Roland Corporation and Universal Music Group (UMG) in March 2024, these Principles are a series of clarifying statements relating to the responsible use of AI in music creation, aiming to protect the essence of music — its human spirit. Newly supporting organizations include NAMM, Native Instruments, Focusrite, Waves, LANDR, Eventide, GPU Audio, and many more.
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Timekettle Announces Progress in Near-Human-Level AI Translation Technology
June 26, 2024 by Joao Martins

Timekettle Announces Progress in Near-Human-Level AI Translation Technology

The elusive dream of an hearable device that provides real time translation between any language continues to get closer due to consistent global R&D efforts. Timekettle, a company from Shenzhen, China, is approaching that goal in a determined way, with actual products and solutions that are available in the market. Now the company announced the release of its latest software upgrade with AI Semantic Segmentation, which Timekettle believes sets a new standard in real-time language translation using earbuds.
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Ceva Adds New TinyML Optimized NPUs to Enable Edge AI Everywhere
June 24, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

Ceva Adds New TinyML Optimized NPUs to Enable Edge AI Everywhere

Ceva, a leading licensor of silicon and software IP that enables edge devices to connect, sense and infer data more reliably and efficiently, announced that it has extended its Ceva-NeuPro family of NPUs. These meet growing demand for efficient and specialized AI applications at the Edge, where power and processing power is often limited, particularly in consumer products such as TWS earbuds, wearables, smart speakers, smart appliances, home automation devices, cameras, and more.
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BdSound and NXP Announce Automotive Audio Partnership
June 20, 2024 by Joao Martins

BdSound and NXP Announce Automotive Audio Partnership

BdSound and NXP Semiconductors have joined forces to combine advanced audio signal processing and voice technology with NXP's latest automotive SAF9100 audio DSP device. BdSound aims to provide cutting-edge integrations to improve voice user experience in next-generation vehicles, through NXP’s recently announced high-performance SAF9100 audio DSP. This platform features dedicated neural-network engines that BdSound will be able to fully explore.
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NXP Advances AI Audio Processing with SAF9xxx Audio DSPs
June 18, 2024 by Joao Martins

NXP Advances AI Audio Processing with SAF9xxx Audio DSPs

NXP Semiconductors is improving AI audio capabilities in automotive infotainment and marking a significant improvement in automotive audio processing technology in general with the latest SAF9xxx family of audio DSPs. Utilizing Cadence’s latest generation high-performance Tensilica HiFi 5 DSPs, combined with dedicated neural-network engines, the SAF9xxx audio DSPs enable efficient implementation of next-generation, high-quality, self-learning audio and speech applications.
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On-Device Intelligence: Apple Makes AI Make Sense
June 13, 2024 by Joao Martins

On-Device Intelligence: Apple Makes AI Make Sense

Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2024 keynote unveiled Apple Intelligence and was another historic moment for the Cupertino company. Apple Intelligence will be implemented in this year's and future devices, and will arrive with iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia, and watchOS 11 updates. Everywhere in the demonstrations of the new features, we could see clear signs of artificial intelligence doing its thing in the background. A true milestone in the history of computing and consumer technology - when AI started to make sense.
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Q-SYS Launches Major Update to Q-SYS Reflect Cloud-Based Monitoring and Management System
June 11, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

Q-SYS Launches Major Update to Q-SYS Reflect Cloud-Based Monitoring and Management System

Q-SYS, a division of QSC, announced a significant update to Q-SYS Reflect, including new pricing and feature tier optimizations for easier deployment and scalability. Now an intrinsic part of the Q-SYS Platform, Q-SYS Reflect enables access to robust cloud-based monitoring and management capabilities, expanding this full stack AV platform to also harness the exponential power of AI, within the data and cloud-manageable architecture of Q-SYS.
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Sennheiser Sets the Bar High for InfoComm 2024
May 28, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

Sennheiser Sets the Bar High for InfoComm 2024

Sennheiser is going all in for InfoComm 2024, showcasing the company's growing range of business communication and collaboration solutions. For the Las Vegas show, June 12-14, Sennheiser will demonstrate the new all-in-one TeamConnect Bars (TC Bars), which will begin shipping in June, as well as the new TeamConnect Ceiling Medium (TCC M) microphone — now with Intelligent Noise Control. In addition to these solutions, Sennheiser is showing a full range of audio hardware and software solutions for corporate and education environments.
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