All items tagged with voice assistants (129)

Market, Technology, and Trends for Soundbars in Perspective

July 5, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Market, Technology, and Trends for Soundbars in Perspective

Market research firm SAR Insight and Consulting updated its available analysis on one of the most important speaker form-factors currently in the audio and home entertainment industry. In the company's latest report on soundbars, the company details the technology trends, market growth and competitive analysis in the category. As manufacturers continue to expand the features, consumers also seem to have greater appreciation for soundbars.

Alango Technologies Now Licensing Hearing Enhancement Technology to OEMs

June 30, 2021 by Joao Martins

Alango Technologies Now Licensing Hearing Enhancement Technology to OEMs

Alango Technologies announced that OEMs and ODMs will now be able to license the same technologies that power its BeHear Bluetooth assistive hearing headsets. The audio and voice embedded DSP software specialist firm is now licensing its set of software technologies for full-featured customer-fit hearing personalization and amplification, enabling the rapid development of advanced hearables in new designs and form-factors.

Knowles Releases New Voice Control Development Kit for Smart Home Appliances

May 27, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Knowles Releases New Voice Control Development Kit for Smart Home Appliances

Knowles Corporation announced the AISonic White Goods Standard Solution, a new, complete development solution that enables fast and easy voice integration for smart appliances. The development kit enables OEM and ODMs to build voice-activated control and far-field speech recognition capabilities into smart appliances, including refrigerators, ovens and microwaves, clothes washing and drying machines, vacuums, dishwashers, and more.

Ambiq Introduces Ultra-Low Powered Development Solution for Voice-Enabled Connected Devices

May 12, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Ambiq Introduces Ultra-Low Powered Development Solution for Voice-Enabled Connected Devices

Ambiq introduced the new Ambiq Voice-on-SPOT (VoS) Kit, designed for manufacturers to introduce voice-command into their IoT devices with faster time-to-market. The Ambiq VoS Kit offers a complete, always-on, always-listening, voice-to-cloud solution for local voice commands and/or voice assistant integration in battery-powered connected devices.

Sensory Privacy-Focused Custom Voice Assistants Power New Generation Appliances

May 6, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Sensory Privacy-Focused Custom Voice Assistants Power New Generation Appliances

Deep learning voice AI is finding its way into everything from appliances to toys. Sensory believes that not all applications require Internet-based voice assistant platforms and that privacy is key for consumers’ acceptance. But so is reliability. For such requirements Sensory now offers its fully edge-based Custom Voice Assistants solution that offers total privacy.

R&D Stories: Speaker ID Technology

April 26, 2021 by Vikrant Singh Tomar

R&D Stories: Speaker ID Technology

As part of its focus on voice convergence, in its April 2021 edition, audioXpress featured a contributed article by the founder and CEO of Fluent.ai, describing how increasing consumer demand for personalized experiences has sparked the creation of the company’s speaker ID technology, and exploring the challenges that this type of technology still faces. A valuable perspective from a company positioned right at the edge of voice recognition using AI and edge processing. This article was originally published in audioXpress, April 2021.

Amazon Introduces All-New True Wireless Echo Buds With Custom ANC

April 14, 2021 by Joao Martins

Amazon Introduces All-New True Wireless Echo Buds With Custom ANC

Amazon introduced the next-generation of Echo Buds, featuring an all-new design, premium audio architecture for crisp, balanced sound, custom-designed Active Noise Cancellation technology, wireless charging capabilities, improved microphones for better call quality, and hands-free access to Alexa. Not many bought the first model anyway, so the announcement of the all-new second-generation Echo Buds is not that surprising, considering Amazon considers hardware as a pure extension of its services ecosystem.

Knowles Raises Standard of In-Cabin Audio With New Line of Automotive-Grade MEMS Microphones

April 8, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Knowles Raises Standard of In-Cabin Audio With New Line of Automotive-Grade MEMS Microphones

Knowles Corporation announced the availability of two new SiSonic MEMS microphones for automotive applications: SPH1878 and SPH9855. The new best-in-class analog and digital microphones by Knowles are engineered to a higher standard of quality and supply assurance to support the increasing demands of the automotive market for hands free calling, advanced voice assistance and in-cabin noise cancellation for passenger comfort.

Sonos Introduces New Ultra-Portable Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Speaker

March 10, 2021 by Joao Martins

Sonos Introduces New Ultra-Portable Bluetooth and Wi-Fi Speaker

Sonos introduced Sonos Roam, an ultra-portable Bluetooth speaker built to deliver the best possible sound for its size, both at home and outdoors with adaptable features. It can be fully connected to Sonos system on Wi-Fi at home and automatically switching to Bluetooth when the user is on the go. As Sonos highlights, the Roam was designed to be effortless to set-up and control, using new smart features that make it easier to enjoy music and more from anywhere. Roam is available starting April 20 for $169.

QuickLogic Releases Amazon-Qualified Alexa Reference Design for Hearables

March 4, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

QuickLogic Releases Amazon-Qualified Alexa Reference Design for Hearables

QuickLogic released an Amazon-qualified QuickFeather AVS Reference Design that enables OEMs and ODMs to evaluate and develop their own smart hearable products quickly and easily. This kit integrates the Alexa voice-initiated Close-Talk experience, enabling a broad set of battery-powered applications to communicate directly with Alexa for a multitude of use cases. In addition, OEMs and ODMs can optionally integrate multiple AI-based motion, sound and other AI use cases based on SensiML’s AI Software Platform, which already has native support for the development kit.

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