All items tagged with natural language understanding (13)

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?

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.

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.

On-Device Intelligence: Apple Makes AI Make Sense

June 13, 2024 by Joao Martins

On-Device Intelligence: Apple Makes AI Make Sense

Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2024 keynote unveiled Apple Intelligence and was another historic moment for the Cupertino company. Apple Intelligence will be implemented in this year's and future devices, and will arrive with iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS Sequoia, and watchOS 11 updates. Everywhere in the demonstrations of the new features, we could see clear signs of artificial intelligence doing its thing in the background. A true milestone in the history of computing and consumer technology - when AI started to make sense.

NXP's VIT Speech to Intent Engine with Natural Language Understanding Enables Voice Interactions On-Device

October 3, 2023 by Joao Martins

NXP's VIT Speech to Intent Engine with Natural Language Understanding Enables Voice Interactions On-Device

NXP Semiconductors announced the VIT Speech to Intent engine, a natural language understanding engine that leverages edge computing to enable local voice control. Part of NXP’s Voice Intelligent Technology (VIT) software suite, the VIT Speech to Intent engine rivals cloud-based systems' performance, and does not require a cloud connection, supporting improved user privacy in consumer electronics and automotive applications.

Sensory VoiceHub 2.0 Integrates Generative AI for Fast Development of Custom Voice UIs

June 1, 2023 by audioXpress Staff

Sensory VoiceHub 2.0 Integrates Generative AI for Fast Development of Custom Voice UIs

Sensory announced the launch of VoiceHub 2.0, a new and improved version of the company's web portal for the development of wake words and custom voice recognition user interfaces. The updated solution now integrates generative AI-powered tools, making it an even more powerful, allowing developers to quickly create custom voice UIs capable of understanding spoken commands and natural language.

Sonos Voice Control Available in French

December 9, 2022 by Joao Martins

Sonos Voice Control Available in French

Sonos has recently introduced its Sonos Voice Control feature to its French listeners through an update of the Sonos application enabling Sonos Voice Control in the French language, in France. Available since June in US English, Sonos Voice Control allows users to control a Sonos speaker or Sonos multiroom music system using only voice commands. Implemented on-device for privacy reasons, Sonos Voice Control delivers hands-free control "de la musique. Maintenant en français."

Picovoice Adds Voice AI SDKs for Italian, Japanese, Korean and Portuguese Languages

July 19, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

Picovoice Adds Voice AI SDKs for Italian, Japanese, Korean and Portuguese Languages

Picovoice remains committed to becoming the developer-first voice AI platform for adding voice to anything. The introduction of its Free Tier service provided more than 10,000 developers with state-of-the-art voice recognition. The launch of Speech-to-Text engines has made Picovoice the first and only ubiquitous end-to-end edge voice AI platform. Now, Picovoice introduced voice AI SDKs for Italian, Japanese, Korean and Portuguese. Now developers can train branded wake words and custom voice commands in eight languages.

ArkX Labs Collaborates with Sensory for Enhanced Speech Recognition

January 26, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

ArkX Labs Collaborates with Sensory for Enhanced Speech Recognition

ArkX Laboratories, a leading provider of advanced far-field voice capture and speech recognition technology, announced an expanded collaboration with Sensory, to incorporate its advanced speech recognition, natural language understanding, voice biometrics, wake words, facial recognition, and sound identification technologies with ArkX's production-ready EveryWord touchless voice solutions.

SoundHound and Qualcomm Announce Strategic Agreement to Bring Voice AI Technology to Snapdragon Platforms

January 25, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

SoundHound and Qualcomm Announce Strategic Agreement to Bring Voice AI Technology to Snapdragon Platforms

SoundHound and Qualcomm announced a multi-year, joint agreement that will give app developers and device manufacturers access to an easy-to-deploy voice artificial intelligence (AI) solution running on Snapdragon platforms. The integration consists of SoundHound's automatic speech recognition, natural language understanding, and text-to-speech conversion software with select Snapdragon platforms from Qualcomm.

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