All items tagged with voice control (196)

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.

Spotify Unveils Car Thing Dedicated Smart Player for the Car

April 14, 2021 by Joao Martins

Spotify Unveils Car Thing Dedicated Smart Player for the Car

In a effort to expand its reach in the lucrative automotive sector, Swedish streaming audio company Spotify has launched its very first hardware product. With free and widely available radio stations still dominating the space, car audio remains the last frontier to be conquered by streaming services. Spotify seems determined to cover that market, even if it requires launching a proof-of-concept product. Spotify Car Thing is basically a dedicated Spotify player with voice controls for Premium subscribers, cutting the ties to the smartphone.

Libre Wireless Forms Strategic Alliance with Knowles Corporation on MAVID Voice AI Platform

March 17, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Libre Wireless Forms Strategic Alliance with Knowles Corporation on MAVID Voice AI Platform

Leading embedded wireless voice/AI solutions provider Libre Wireless Technologies announced a strategic alliance with Knowles Corporation to jointly promote and market new solutions based on the MAVID (Multiprotocol-Audio-Voice-IoT-Devices) platform. These miniature-sized and low power mic-to-cloud edge voice/AI computing solutions now feature Knowles' micro-acoustic microphones and speaker technology, optimized for smart product development.

Contextual Awareness: What Is It, and How Is It Being Used?

March 17, 2021 by Elia Shenberger

Contextual Awareness: What Is It, and How Is It Being Used?

Context-aware devices, such as the embedded smartphone keyboards, have been around for some time, though in a very limited form. By learning regularly used names, locations and phrases, they seem to know your next move, that is, predictive text. Similarly, but at a higher level, the next generation of smart audio devices will combine user-specific data, such as location, preferences and other device sensor data, including audio, to better serve the user.

DSP Group Opens Audio Signal Processing and AI Innovation Lab in Germany

March 15, 2021 by Joao Martins

DSP Group Opens Audio Signal Processing and AI Innovation Lab in Germany

DSP Group announced the opening of an audio innovation lab in Straubing, Germany, focused on advancing the state-of-the-art in audio signal processing and artificial intelligence (AI) for acoustic engineering. The lab is already staffed with experts, each with 20+ years of experience in the areas of voice and audio processing algorithm development and deployment, speaker non-linear processing, AI-based audio processing, active noise cancellation (ANC), and rapid prototyping and tuning.

LG Electronics Opens webOS TV Platform to Other Manufacturers

February 25, 2021 by Joao Martins

LG Electronics Opens webOS TV Platform to Other Manufacturers

LG Electronics (LG) announced the availability of its popular webOS TV platform ecosystem to other TV brand partners, offering a superior alternative to Android-based interfaces and proprietary user experiences across different manufacturers. Over twenty TV manufacturers have already committed to the webOS partnership, and the ecosystem will be supported by technology partners such as Realtek, Nuance, Gracenote, CEVA and Universal Electronics, among many others.

Developers Get Easy Access to Amazon Voice Services with OKdo and Qualcomm

February 24, 2021 by Cristina Costa

Developers Get Easy Access to Amazon Voice Services with OKdo and Qualcomm

OKdo, the global technology company from Electrocomponents, announced it is now supplying the Qualcomm Home Hub 100 Development Kit for Amazon Voice Services (AVS), a ready to use environment for voice-controlled applications in connected devices. Based on Qualcomm’s highly integrated, multi-mode System-on-Chip (SoC), the QCA4020, the Home Hub 100 kit is provided with pre-integrated software support for AVS, to help kickstart the development of voice-controlled applications.

Picovoice Announces Voice Interfaces on the Edge With German Language Support and Plans to Go Multilingual

February 11, 2021 by Joao Martins

Picovoice Announces Voice Interfaces on the Edge With German Language Support and Plans to Go Multilingual

Picovoice, a young company developing voice AI on the edge with on-device speech recognition and natural language understanding software, announced a new SDK for German language. The company allows developers to create and fully test voice experiences directly on its recently launched Picovoice Console platform, before exporting models that can run on-device with minimal latency. Picovoice also announced plans to release SDKs for French, Spanish, and Japanese.

Qualcomm and Amazon Deepen Strategic Engagement with the Pre-Integration of Alexa Custom Assistant with Snapdragon Automotive Cockpit Platform

January 27, 2021 by Joao Martins

Qualcomm and Amazon Deepen Strategic Engagement with the Pre-Integration of Alexa Custom Assistant with Snapdragon Automotive Cockpit Platform

Qualcomm Technologies and Amazon announced new joint efforts to pre-integrate the Alexa Custom Assistant with the Qualcomm Snapdragon Automotive Cockpit Platforms - the new-generation of automotive-optimized SoCs from Qualcomm. This new system is designed to support automotive OEMs and Tier-1 suppliers to build customizable, in-vehicle intelligent assistants and is offered as an extension module to the Alexa Automotive Software Development Kit (SDK).

In-Car Voice Controls Must Be Context-Based to Offer Best User Experience Finds Strategy Analytics

January 22, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

In-Car Voice Controls Must Be Context-Based to Offer Best User Experience Finds Strategy Analytics

As voice controls are fast becoming a primary interaction modality of choice in-vehicle, Strategy Analytics identified that context is key in user experience. Automakers of all types have largely aligned on touchscreen and voice control as the primary modalities for infotainment HMI. While touch-and-voice-centric HMI has achieved a majority market penetration in all major markets, China in particular spearheads voice as the primary modality in many verticals.

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