With voice interface and control quickly becoming a familiar method of interface for smart products, brands and smart product developers need scalable options to enable voice across their entire product lines. The MAVID family now enables fully certified cloud-based voice solutions with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Zigbee options, all the way down to simple local voice control – no network or cloud required.
Through the collaboration with Knowles, these Libre Wireless solutions are now available in completely optimized systems, delivering the latest in microphone and audio/voice processing technology and enabling a faster time to market. These solutions also help product developers deal with the complexities of voice and leverage Libre’s acoustic lab and experience tuning and optimizing voice applications. Overall, the product development process for integrating voice is greatly simplified and presents very little risk, which is key for many brands now designing next-generation voice-enabled products.
The two featured MAVID solutions designed in collaboration with Knowles include the MAVID 3M and the new MAVID Voice, a unique low-cost local voice solution enabling voice interface and control without the complexity of a wireless network or cloud setup. MAVID Voice greatly simplifies both development and the customer experience but delivers the convenience of voice control to many new product categories. With Libre’s SDK and voice firmware tools, custom wake words, languages and voice control features are easily customized and integrated into the system, and custom solutions can now be integrated in a matter of days.
With no need for Wi-Fi or BLE connectivity there are no recurring charges for cloud services. All voice performance and tuning is provided by Libre allowing for a ‘light-touch’ approach for brands and developers. MAVID Voice also allows support for device control peripherals including UART, SPI, I2C and GPIO, ideal for domestic appliances and devices with a limited set of controls. A proof-of-concept and demo platform is available on request.
MAVID 3M is a low cost IoT module supporting Wi-Fi, BLE and AVS or local voice control. With MAVID 3M embedded within a product, a user can control 3rd party devices using voice, including from remote locations. Along with integrated wireless connectivity, the solution offers the necessary Voice DSP capability to deliver near and far field detection, also including advanced acoustic echo cancellation and noise reduction. This extremely low power voice solution is ideally placed for battery operated devices.
For development with the MAVID 3M solution, OEMs and ODMs can take advantage of a comprehensive SDK with peripheral access, AWS Cloud APIs, allowing customization without a big investment and support. The standard SDK also supports over-the-air fleet updates and fleet provisioning options.
The alliance partnership between Libre Wireless and Knowles leverages both companies' expertise in voice-activation control, and far-field speech recognition, benefiting development with recognized solutions from a market leader and global provider of advanced micro-acoustic microphones and speakers, audio processing, and precision device solutions. Libre’s MAVID 3M and Voice platform solutions optimized in collaboration with Knowles create a best-in-class package to meet the growing demands for voice control in smart speakers, smart home devices, connected appliances and more.
"The demand for voice control in all aspects of our lives is growing fast and Knowles’ powerful suite of standard solutions make it easier for manufacturers to quickly and efficiently add voice capabilities to any device, thereby, shortening product development cycle times," says Vikram Shrivastava, senior director, IoT Marketing at Knowles. "Device manufacturers need high-quality, broad market embedded solutions to bring these capabilities to market quickly and scale to keep up with the fast-evolving way that we are living, working, and communicating with smart products. Together with Libre we look forward to enabling voice innovation in the IoT market."
"Expanding Libre’s unique MAVID family platforms into broader IoT and AI applications is a strategic activity and a top priority at Libre," says Jordan Watters, Chief Executive Officer of Libre Wireless Technologies. "Working with a market leader such as Knowles for voice input/processing will create unique, best-in-class turn-key solutions for easy integration of voice into next generations of consumer products. We’ve leveraged Knowles’ audio and voice integration expertise to create a powerful suite of standard solutions for different applications to make it fast and easy for manufacturers to quickly and efficiently add speech recognition and voice capabilities to devices and get to market in a fraction of the time."
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