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Kardome and LG Electronics Partner to Transform Voice User Interfaces

May 13, 2025 by Joao Martins

Kardome and LG Electronics Partner to Transform Voice User Interfaces

Kardome, the voice recognition and voice control specialist company, announced a strategic collaboration with LG Electronics to integrate its multiuser Spatial Hearing AI solution into LG's next-generation smart devices. Kardome is confident that it can surpass recognized challenges for relatively far-field voice interactions with TVs and other devices, even in noisy environments, with its technology's ability to isolate each user's voice from background noise.

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February 26, 2025 by Joao Martins

Amazon Introduces Alexa+ Next Generation Voice Assistant Powered by Generative AI

Amazon unveiled its new voice assistant Alexa+, now fully enabled by artificial intelligence. This is the predictable next step to bring back voice interfaces and personal assistants, directly interfacing and powered by generative AI engines, which helps explain why Amazon called Alexa+ its new personal AI assistant. The promotion shows a more conversational and more capable natural language voice interface. Time for the audio industry to start looking again at voice front-ends and smart speakers?

PIMIC and ZillTek Launch Integrated Edge AI and Microphone Noise Cancellation Solution

December 23, 2024 by Joao Martins

PIMIC and ZillTek Launch Integrated Edge AI and Microphone Noise Cancellation Solution

PIMIC, a new company working on ultra-low-power AI technology, unveiled the Clarity NC100, a Deep Neural Network (DNN)-based Environmental Noise Cancellation (ENC) chip that sets a new benchmark for performance and edge AI compute efficiency. Working in partnership with Taiwan-based MEMS microphone developer ZillTek, at CES 2025 the Californian company will present an integrated edge AI chip and digital microphone designed to address noise cancellation challenges in a single package.

Create Your Own Privacy-Focused Voice Assistant. Open Webinar, December 10

November 29, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

Create Your Own Privacy-Focused Voice Assistant. Open Webinar, December 10

The Audio Product Development Alliance (APDA) is hosting a live webinar with Sensory, to discuss the latest evolution in voice interfaces and how manufacturers can implement product-specific voice assistants without privacy concerns. During the streaming event, Jeff Rogers (VP, Sales & Marketing, Sensory) will discuss how voice recognition, voice interfaces and voice assistants are now accessible to brands and manufacturers, creating a major opportunity for differentiation.

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November 15, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

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With LEAP (Listening Effort Prediction from Acoustic Parameters) now integrated into ACQUA 6.1.100, HEAD acoustics offers an optional tool for on-site prediction of the perceived listening effort. The software predicts the perceived listening effort of a listener when hearing an impaired speech signal without the need for an undisturbed reference signal. This makes it possible to carry out measurements more efficiently under laboratory conditions and in real-world applications.