All items tagged with generative AI (16)

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?

CES 2025: An Automotive Audio Perspective

January 23, 2025 by Roger Shively

CES 2025: An Automotive Audio Perspective

Roger Shively shares his Automotive Audio perspective of CES 2025. An evolutionary year, more tempered after the explosive nature of the software-defined vehicle becoming reality last year. Narrow and Deep AI, Machine Learning, and Generative AI had their roles in developing and maintaining most of the software and platforms for automotive audio at CES 2025. The “Ploughman's Lunch” of Automotive Audio, Shively was going to call his chronicle from the automotive-filled West Hall and the Beach Lot across the street.

Gaudio Lab Presents New AI Music Placement Solution at CES 2025

November 18, 2024 by Joao Martins

Gaudio Lab Presents New AI Music Placement Solution at CES 2025

Gaudio Lab will return to CES 2025 with another innovative application exploring the possibilities of artificial intelligence in audio. Already recognized by the CTA Innovation Awards judges with a CES 2025 Innovation Award (which are confirmed prior to the show), the new Gaudio Music Placement solution addresses challenges in video content production and distribution and expands upon its previous Generative AI tools.

Syntiant Introduces Small Language Model Assistant Generative AI Solution at IBC 2024

September 16, 2024 by Joao Martins

Syntiant Introduces Small Language Model Assistant Generative AI Solution at IBC 2024

Syntiant showcased the possibilities of its low power edge AI solutions during the 2024 IBC show in Amsterdam in partnership with Synaptics. Ideal for service providers and device manufacturers, Syntiant's proprietary small language model assistant (SLMA) was used to implement an AI voice assistant running exclusively on-device, ready for integration in low-cost designs such as set-top boxes. Syntiant showcased its SLMA solution on a set-top box reference design powered by Synaptics Astra SL1680 embedded processors.

SoundHound AI Acquires Amelia to Expand Reach In Conversational AI and Enterprise Applications

August 9, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

SoundHound AI Acquires Amelia to Expand Reach In Conversational AI and Enterprise Applications

SoundHound AI announced the acquisition of Amelia, a leading enterprise AI software company with experience in voice interfaces and context-aware, natural language conversational capabilities for customer service applications. The business combination positions SoundHound AI as a strong provider of voice and conversational generative AI, with reach across multiple industries – including retail, financial services, healthcare, automotive, smart devices, restaurants, and more.

SoundHound AI Rolls Out Voice Assistant with Generative AI to Stellantis Vehicles Across Europe

August 1, 2024 by Joao Martins

SoundHound AI Rolls Out Voice Assistant with Generative AI to Stellantis Vehicles Across Europe

SoundHound AI, one of the pioneers on speech-to-meaning voice interfaces continues to double down on its use of Generative AI to expand the possibilities of its voice assistants in automotive environments. The Silicon Valley company just confirmed that its SoundHound Chat AI voice assistant with integrated ChatGPT will be live in Alfa Romeo and Citroën vehicles across multiple European markets, adding to previous announcements with other Stellantis' brands.

June 26, 2024 by Joao Martins

Music Industry Unites to Protect the Rights of Musicians Amid Risks of Generative AI Technology

More than fifty prominent music companies, associations, and institutions globally have added their support to the “Principles for Music Creation with AI” manifesto. Introduced by Roland Corporation and Universal Music Group (UMG) in March 2024, these Principles are a series of clarifying statements relating to the responsible use of AI in music creation, aiming to protect the essence of music — its human spirit. Newly supporting organizations include NAMM, Native Instruments, Focusrite, Waves, LANDR, Eventide, GPU Audio, and many more.

SoundHound AI and Perplexity Partner to Enable Large Language Models in Next-Generation Voice Assistants

May 9, 2024 by audioXpress Staff

SoundHound AI and Perplexity Partner to Enable Large Language Models in Next-Generation Voice Assistants

SoundHound AI, a pioneer in voice artificial intelligence, announced that it has partnered with Perplexity, the conversational AI-powered answer engine. Together the two companies plan to bring Perplexity’s online Large Language Models (LLM) capabilities to SoundHound Chat AI – a new generation of voice assistant that utilizes hundreds of real-time domains, as well as generative AI responses.

SoundHound On-Chip Voice AI Enabled by NVIDIA DRIVE

March 19, 2024 by Joao Martins

SoundHound On-Chip Voice AI Enabled by NVIDIA DRIVE

SoundHound AI is evolving its approach with voice artificial intelligence (Voice AI) and announced a completely new implementation of an in-vehicle voice assistant that uses a large language model (LLM) completely on the edge, running on the NVIDIA DRIVE platform. The solution combines SoundHound Chat AI running completely on-device and delivers Generative AI with no connectivity required for speech-to-meaning voice interactions.

MediaTek Enhances On-Device Generative AI Processing

August 28, 2023 by Cristina Costa

MediaTek Enhances On-Device Generative AI Processing

MediaTek is already powering more than two billion connected edge devices every year and now the company confirmed that it is working closely with Meta's Llama 2 next-generation open-source Large Language Model (LLM). Combining this recently announced LLM with its latest APUs and NeuroPilot AI Platform, MediaTek aims to build a complete edge computing ecosystem designed to accelerate AI application development on smartphones, consumer connected devices, vehicles, smart home, etc.

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