KT Corporation is the largest integrated telecom and digital platform service provider based in South Korea. Principal services include mobile, Broadband, IPTV, B2B communications, and fixed-line telephony. KT rebranded its IPTV service as Genie TV at the end of 2022, in an effort to push forward its content business, enabling users to access other video streaming services with personalized content recommendations based on its 11 years of experience and massive amount of data generated from its 9 million subscribers. For the company, the GiGA Genie AI voice assistant is an essential part of the advanced user interface, and a key component in the overall Genie TV strategy.
Designed with the renowned Audio Weaver platform and offered as one of several open IPs from DSP Concepts, TalkTo is an Audio Front End technology that combines advanced signal processing techniques to create clean audio signals for voice assistants. With TalkTo, end-users can control the Genie TV and perform voice searches for content from across living spaces.
With proper tuning and design for the Genie TV acoustics, TalkTo makes it possible for the GiGA Genie AI voice assistant to respond while playing immersive sound. The Genie TV features a multi-microphone TalkTo design for far-field voice performance with Acoustic Echo Cancellation, beamforming, and noise reduction algorithms. TalkTo processing runs seamlessly on the powerful Cadence Tensilica HiFi 4 DSP on the S905X4 SoC from Amlogic.
"We are thrilled to have this opportunity to build on our previous collaborations and join industry-leading audio partners on this latest award-winning product from KT," says Chin Beckmann, DSP Concepts CEO. "KT continues to define the shape of voice and sound with their innovative set-top boxes and soundbars, bringing smart, immersive entertainment into living rooms. We are especially excited to provide the development benefits of our Audio Weaver open platform, allowing KT, their ODM partners, silicon partner, and DSP Concepts to collaborate in the same environment and with full visibility throughout the development process."
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