All items tagged with voice recognition and voice assistants (49)

Sensory Redefines Voice Control for Telly TVs

January 17, 2025 by Joao Martins

Sensory Redefines Voice Control for Telly TVs

If you really want it, you can get it. Talk to control your TV, that is. And in full privacy. That’s what Sensory did for Telly, a very unusual company that offers “the smartest TV ever built”. Offer is the right term here, because Telly is free. And the company partnered with Sensory to implement far-field remote control using on-device speech recognition. This innovation was presented at CES 2025 and redefines what voice control can do, setting a new benchmark for privacy, speed, and user convenience.

BdSound Introduces Microphone Bubbles In-Car Voice Experiences

November 10, 2023 by Joao Martins

BdSound Introduces Microphone Bubbles In-Car Voice Experiences

Enjoying a deserved recognition in the automotive market, and successful collaborations with 15 world-renowned OEMs, Italian company BdSound introduced a new advanced feature to improve the car experience even more. Expanding its Simply Sounds Clear set of technologies and algorithms, BdSound now offers Microphone Bubbles, a way to isolate each passenger’s voice inside the vehicle, allowing calls and voice recognition for all occupants in a car.

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

October 24, 2023 by Joao Martins

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.

How to Get Alexa-Enabled Devices AVS Certified

July 24, 2023 by David Berol

How to Get Alexa-Enabled Devices AVS Certified

Getting AVS certified for your Alexa built-in integrations is no trivial task. Amazon expects OEMs to follow specific processes when building and testing their devices including Acoustics, Security, Music, Functional, and User Experience. David Berol, Director of the Authorized Test Labs for Alexa at Silicon Valley pioneer Surfaceink, shares his insights on what you need to know about getting your Alexa-enable devices through AVS Certification process. Learn How.

Dolphin Design Unveils Innovative IP for Sound Classification Reducing Power Requirements by 99%

June 27, 2023 by audioXpress Staff

Dolphin Design Unveils Innovative IP for Sound Classification Reducing Power Requirements by 99%

Dolphin Design, a semiconductor designer of power management, audio, and processing devices with in-house ASIC design services, announced the launch of WhisperExtractor, a mixed-signal technology for voice and audio-enabled SoCs, enabling voice and sound classification at a record µW level power budget. The new technology paves the way to breakthrough always-on voice user interface, real time speech-to-text, and always-on sound detection.

DSP Concepts Optimizes Voice Control for the KT Genie TV All-in-One Soundbar

June 19, 2023 by Joao Martins

DSP Concepts Optimizes Voice Control for the KT Genie TV All-in-One Soundbar

DSP Concepts announced its collaboration with South Korea telecom KT Corporation to bring smart voice control to KT's latest set-top box, the Genie TV All-in-One Soundbar. This 2023 Red Dot Product Design winning-product features the GiGA Genie AI voice assistant, combined with powerful sound tuning features. With the Genie TV, KT delivers premium immersive sound combined with precision far-field voice recognition enabled with TalkTo from DSP Concepts.

Amazon Echo Pops Slice Smart Speakers in Half

May 22, 2023 by Joao Martins

Amazon Echo Pops Slice Smart Speakers in Half

When the first Amazon Echo device launched in 2014, it created a new category: The smart speaker. The Echo speakers brought the voice assistant to the home and created the perfect controller for the early "smart home." Unfortunately, almost 10 years later, voice recognition still has a long way to go, the multi-language promise is still unrealized, and Echo speakers are already everywhere - in the countries where Amazon sells them. The company even announces new models with a blog post.

SoundHound Unveils Dynamic Interaction With Generative AI Technology

February 9, 2023 by audioXpress Staff

SoundHound Unveils Dynamic Interaction With Generative AI Technology

SoundHound AI unveiled Dynamic Interaction With Generative AI, further extending the capabilities of the company’s real-time, multimodal interface by granting users hands-free access to a vast wealth of ideas, information, and sophisticated search functionality. A newly released demo showcases how Generative AI platforms, like ChatGPT from OpenAI, would work in-vehicle for the automotive industry.

Native Voice Announces Hands-Free Access to iHeartMedia Audio Content

December 20, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

Native Voice Announces Hands-Free Access to iHeartMedia Audio Content

Native Voice, an on-demand voice assistant platform that enables users to communicate directly by voice with their favorite brands, announced today a product collaboration with iHeartMedia to offer direct access to the nation’s largest library of live and on-demand music, radio and podcast content via voice. Early in 2023, anyone with a Skull-iQ enabled Skullcandy device (Grind, Grind Fuel, Push Active) can simply say “Hey iHeart” for immediate, hands-free access to iHeartRadio’s expansive world of content without having to download the iHeart app.

HEAD acoustics Announces coreIP-Alexa Extension Module for Voice Quality Measurements of Alexa Built-In Devices

October 4, 2022 by Joao Martins

HEAD acoustics Announces coreIP-Alexa Extension Module for Voice Quality Measurements of Alexa Built-In Devices

HEAD acoustics announced availability of its labCORE extension module coreIP-Alexa, specifically created for measurement and validation of the user experience using voice on Alexa-built-in devices. This new labCORE module allows developers and manufacturers to assess the numerous services that Amazon Alexa enables on Alexa-built-in devices, including evaluation of qualified devices that offer Alexa-to-Alexa calls to other Alexa users.

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