HEAD acoustics Announces coreIP-Alexa Extension Module for Voice Quality Measurements of Alexa Built-In Devices

HEAD acoustics announced availability of its labCORE extension module coreIP-Alexa, specifically created for measurement and validation of the user experience using voice on Alexa-built-in devices. This new labCORE module allows developers and manufacturers to assess the numerous services that Amazon Alexa enables on Alexa-built-in devices, including evaluation of qualified devices that offer Alexa-to-Alexa calls to other Alexa users.

STMicroelectronics has released an Amazon-qualified reference design package for smart connected devices leveraging Amazon AVS voice integration, which can be used to create Alexa Built-in products using simple microcontrollers (MCUs). The new reference design eases development of natural-language understanding and voice-based user interaction for smart-home devices and smart appliances, featuring an improved audio front end created with DSP Concepts for far-field audio detection.

Embedded wireless audio and voice solutions provider, Libre Wireless Technologies announced that the RIVA Concert and RIVA Stadium wireless audio speakers are re-launching in a 2.0 version that now includes all the latest features offered in Amazon Alexa Built-In services with a special focus on Amazon’s new Multiroom Music (“MRM”) capabilities. RIVA launched the Amazon "voice-enabled" speakers in 2018, already working with Libre Wireless, and superseding all previous models launched by RIVA Audio until 2017.