BdSound and Vivoka Join Forces to Boost the World of Voice Assistants

BdSound and Vivoka, two European pioneers in voice technology, announced a strategic partnership to reshape the landscape of voice assistants. Through this collaboration, BdSound will leverage Vivoka's development framework allowing users to high-level construct tailored voice assistants. And BdSound's audio and speech processing technology will become an integral part of the acoustic front-end tools offered by Vivoka, promising to make voice assistants more accessible and customizable than ever before.

Aspinity launched the first member of its analogML family, the AML100, which is the industry’s first and only tiny machine learning (ML) solution operating completely within the analog domain. As such, the AML100 reduces always-on system power by 95%, allowing manufacturers to dramatically extend the battery life of devices and migrate walled powered always-on devices to battery - opening whole new classes of products for voice-first and smart home systems.

AONDevices, a Californian startup provider of ultra-low power, high-performance processors for edge AI applications, announced that engineering samples of its new AON1100 processor are now available. The AON1100 enables sensing capabilities in battery-powered always-on devices that need to support local wake words, voice commands, sound recognition, context recognition, and sensor fusion at high accuracy.

NXP expanded its already broad portfolio of voice enablement solutions with the acquisition of Retune DSP, the Denmark-based provider of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) software and algorithms for voice control and communication applications. Announced in July and now confirmed, the acquisition of Retune DSP adds three powerful voice DSP software products that will merge with NXP’s voice solutions. The combination with NXP’s broad customer base, global footprint and scale, promises to expand breakthrough voice solutions through combined R&D, sales force and customer support teams.

DSP Concepts launched TalkTogether, a fully-integrated solution focused on human-to-human communication. The new module for Audio Weaver allows brands to instantly add voice comms to any device - from a conference room speaker, to a gaming soundbar to a connected exercise device and more. Given the numerous possibilities, DSP Concepts is also opening up TalkTogether so developers can customize it to fit their precise needs, offering unprecedented design flexibility.