All items tagged with hands-free (9)

SoundHound On-Chip Voice AI Enabled by NVIDIA DRIVE

March 19, 2024 by Joao Martins

SoundHound On-Chip Voice AI Enabled by NVIDIA DRIVE

SoundHound AI is evolving its approach with voice artificial intelligence (Voice AI) and announced a completely new implementation of an in-vehicle voice assistant that uses a large language model (LLM) completely on the edge, running on the NVIDIA DRIVE platform. The solution combines SoundHound Chat AI running completely on-device and delivers Generative AI with no connectivity required for speech-to-meaning voice interactions.

SoundHound Announces Chat AI For Automotive Voice Assistant

April 27, 2023 by audioXpress Staff

SoundHound Announces Chat AI For Automotive Voice Assistant

SoundHound AI launched SoundHound Chat AI for Automotive, an in-vehicle voice assistant. SoundHound Chat AI for Automotive will be the first product to offer an in-vehicle voice assistant that combines Generative AI capabilities, like ChatGPT, with an established best-in-class voice assistant. The platform lets automakers provide customers with voice-enabled access to a combination of real-time information domains and Generative AI models which are proving popular.

Alango's VoiceDefender On New Bang & Olufsen Beocom Portal Headphones Passes TEAMS Certification

April 26, 2023 by Joao Martins

Alango's VoiceDefender On New Bang & Olufsen Beocom Portal Headphones Passes TEAMS Certification

Alango Technologies, a leading developer and provider of signal processing and voice enhancement technologies, announced that its VoiceDefender DSP technology has passed the TEAMS certification on the all-new Bang & Olufsen Beocom Portal headphones. The hardware and software technology combination allowed rapid development of full-featured, high-performance, headphone with pristine call quality in a boomless headphone design.

AKM Starts Sampling AK7749 DSP-Integrated CODEC for In-Vehicle Voice Applications

August 10, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

AKM Starts Sampling AK7749 DSP-Integrated CODEC for In-Vehicle Voice Applications

Asahi Kasei Microdevices Corporation (AKM) has developed and started the release of samples of the AK7749, an in-vehicle DSP-integrated CODEC with an automatic mode switching function to support voice applications, and a full range of digital and analog input/output interfaces. The AK7749 is a RAM based, highly integrated, programmable digital signal processor, with 4 channel ADCs, 2 channel DACs, a MIC gain amplifier, a line-out amplifier, 4 channel SRCs, and digital audio I/F, all in a space saving small 48-pin QFN package.

Skullcandy's New Under $100 True Wireless Earbuds Offer Skull-iQ Smart Feature Technology

September 29, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Skullcandy's New Under $100 True Wireless Earbuds Offer Skull-iQ Smart Feature Technology

True wireless earbuds that offer truly differentiated features, such as hands-free control via simple voice commands, personal audio profiles, and software updates, are now a reality under $100. Coming from Skullcandy, the popular headphone brand leading that price category, the new Grind Fuel and Push Active TWS designs offer those features thanks to Bragi OS, and over 18 months of development effort by the Skullcandy and Bragi teams.

SoundHound's Houndify Voice AI Powers Dynamic Voice Recognition System in 2021 Hyundai Elantra and Elantra Hybrid

November 16, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

SoundHound's Houndify Voice AI Powers Dynamic Voice Recognition System in 2021 Hyundai Elantra and Elantra Hybrid

Voice AI developer SoundHound confirmed the integration of its Houndify Voice AI platform into the all-new 2021 Elantra and Elantra Hybrid models from the Korean manufacturer, now available for sale in North America. Hyundai's new Dynamic Voice Recognition System is powered by Houndify's Speech-to-Meaning and Deep Meaning Understanding technologies, providing drivers with voice access to cloud-based information and services hands-free.

HEAD acoustics Promotes Days of Acoustics 2020 Online Seminars

November 4, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

HEAD acoustics Promotes Days of Acoustics 2020 Online Seminars

Record. Analyze. Understand. In 2020, you are all sitting in the front row! This is the inspirational appeal for this year's HEAD acoustics "Day of Acoustics" roadshow, a series of free online seminars with dedicated focus topics, taking place from October 29 to December 03, 2020. The online sessions are offered by HEAD acoustics experts in integrated acoustics solutions, sound and vibration analysis, and audio measurement, in areas such as telecommunications, automotive, and speech and audio quality optimization.

HEAD acoustics Introduces coreA2B High-Performance Solution for Automotive Audio Performance Testing

August 6, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

HEAD acoustics Introduces coreA2B High-Performance Solution for Automotive Audio Performance Testing

Providing high-quality audio is an important part of modern audio systems in vehicles. For this purpose, Analog Devices has developed Automotive Audio Bus (A2B) technology, optimized for delivering superior audio quality. Now, HEAD acoustics launched coreA2B, a high-performance solution for testing audio performance on the A2B bus technology implemented on a measurement extension board for the company's multi-channel hardware platform labCORE.

SoundHound Integrates Houndify Speech-to-Meaning Technology

May 20, 2016 by audioXpress Staff

SoundHound Integrates Houndify Speech-to-Meaning Technology

Sound recognition and voice search technology specialists, SoundHound Inc., has enhanced its popular music app, SoundHound, to include “the most advanced voice interface of any mobile app, enabling a hands-free experience.” The updated SoundHound music discovery app now enables hands-free search, discovery and play, including ability to add songs to a Spotify playlist, all using the company’s Houndify natural language voice search engine.