All items tagged with speech recognition (85)

CEVA Announces SensPro High Performance Sensor Hub DSP Architecture for Smart Devices

April 7, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

CEVA Announces SensPro High Performance Sensor Hub DSP Architecture for Smart Devices

CEVA announced a new high performance sensor hub DSP architecture designed to handle the broad range of sensor processing and sensor fusion workloads for contextually-aware devices. The new SensPro device family serves as a hub for processing and fusing of data from multiple sensors including camera, Radar, LiDAR, Time-of-Flight, microphones and inertial measurement units. This highly-configurable and self-contained architecture brings together scalar and parallel processing for floating point and integer data types, as well as deep learning training and inferencing.

Challenges to Building Voice-Enabled Products

April 2, 2020 by Chin Beckmann

Challenges to Building Voice-Enabled Products

Voice-enabled devices are quickly becoming commonplace in nearly every region and for every consumer demographic. Whether making cloud-connected or offline products, OEMs need to understand what’s driving this demand for voice. Unlike some new product features, adding a voice interface requires product architects to make a number of highly-impactful, interconnected design decisions. Development teams don’t have it easy either, as integrating microphones in a product introduces another layer of complexity.

CEVA Announces DSP and Voice Neural Networks Integration for Power-Efficient Edge Processors

March 25, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

CEVA Announces DSP and Voice Neural Networks Integration for Power-Efficient Edge Processors

CEVA announced that its CEVA-BX DSP cores and WhisPro speech recognition software now also support TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers, a production ready, cross-platform framework for deploying tiny machine learning on power-efficient processors in edge devices. WhisPro is CEVA's speech recognition software for voice wake words and custom command models. TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers is a solution from Google for implementing machine learning at the edge, already optimized and available for CEVA-BX DSP cores.

LiveVox Announces Acquisition of Speech Analytics Specialist Firm SpeechIQ

January 28, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

LiveVox Announces Acquisition of Speech Analytics Specialist Firm SpeechIQ

LiveVox, the customer service and digital engagement tools company, announced the acquisition of SpeechIQ, a speech recognition and voice transcription technology company. LiveVox is a one-stop-shop for cloud-based CRM, call-center, contact center and customer engagement service platforms, unifying all conversations and interactions in one place. Adding voice recognition, voice to text transcription and analytics is obviously a great add-on for LiveVox.

Syntiant and Sensory Demonstrate First Ultra-Low-Power Multi-Language Voice Solution At The Edge

January 9, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Syntiant and Sensory Demonstrate First Ultra-Low-Power Multi-Language Voice Solution At The Edge

At CES 2020, Syntiant announced a partnership with Sensory, combining the expertise and technologies in AI and speech recognition at the Edge, to deliver a deep learning, multi-lingual voice interface for battery-powered devices. The combined solution merges Sensory’s larger, higher-performance TrulyHandsfree wake word engine and voice control with Syntiant’s microwatt-power Neural Decision Processors (NDPs), bringing low-latency, real-time inference to edge devices.

CEVA Debuts SenslinQ Platform to Streamline Development of Contextually Aware Connected Devices

January 7, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

CEVA Debuts SenslinQ Platform to Streamline Development of Contextually Aware Connected Devices

At CES 2020 CEVA unveiled SenslinQ, its first integrated hardware IP and software platform that aggregates sensor fusion, sound and connectivity technologies to enable contextually aware connected devices. The CEVA SenslinQ integrated hardware IP and software platform collects, processes and links data from multiple sensors to enable intelligent devices to understand their surroundings - a key development for augmented hearing using wireless headphones and earbuds.

Sensory Unveils TrulyNatural Voice Assistant SDK Specific for Smart Appliances

December 26, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Sensory Unveils TrulyNatural Voice Assistant SDK Specific for Smart Appliances

Sensory announced the release of a specialized model of TrulyNatural, the company's large vocabulary speech recognition and natural language understanding platform, that has been designed for voice at the edge. This domain specific assistant technology will help manufacturers create a new wave of smart kitchen appliances that don't relay voice requests to the cloud. Collaborating with Midea Microwave and Cleaner Appliances (MCA) business unit, Sensory will preview a microwave oven with a natural language user interface at CES 2020.

Hi Auto Demonstrates Audio-Visual Speaker Separation Solution Following a $4.5 Million Seed Round

November 7, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Hi Auto Demonstrates Audio-Visual Speaker Separation Solution Following a $4.5 Million Seed Round

Speech recognition platforms suffer from poor recognition rates in a noisy environment such as kids in the back seat of cars, radio, ambulance passing by, or heavy rain. Video conferencing becomes ineffective when one of the participants is in a noisy environment like a coffee shop. Israel’s Hi Auto developed a software-only speech enhancement and speaker separation system that eliminates the most challenging noises and focus only on the speaker.

Waves Unveils New Audio Testing Labs in Taipei

October 7, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Waves Unveils New Audio Testing Labs in Taipei

Waves is opening a new state-of-the-art audio and voice testing labs at the company's Taipei location, establishing a commitment to support the growing market for voice-enabled connected devices. The new facilities include 4 ETSI testing labs and one custom designed anechoic chamber for precision acoustic measurements. The labs are designed for testing voice communication and automatic speech recognition technologies for smart speakers and other mobile devices.

Amazon Announces Voice Interoperability Initiative with Leading Technology Companies

September 26, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Amazon Announces Voice Interoperability Initiative with Leading Technology Companies

Amazon, Baidu, Sony, BMW, Microsoft, Bose, Tencent, Orange, Salesforce, Harman, Logitech, Verizon, Sonos, Spotify, Sound United, and more are joining forces to promote choice by supporting multiple, interoperable voice services on a single device. The idea is to offer multiple, simultaneous wake words, so users can access multiple voice services by simply saying the corresponding wake word – from Alexa and Cortana to Orange’s Djingo, Salesforce’s Einstein, and more.

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