Syntiant Partners with Telink and Murata to Present New Edge AI Audio Solutions at CES 2023

Syntiant is heading to CES 2023 with an exciting range of announcements and presentations of end-to-end edge AI solutions for always-on applications. The company will unveil a new reference design created in partnership with Telink that will enable ODMs and OEMs to easily and quickly deploy complete, ultra-low-power, deep learning voice processing applications in remote controls. Another major announcement is the launch of the Murata Type2DA neural decision processor module for edge AI audio and sensor applications.

Ido Gus, Deep Learning Senior Team Leader at CEVA’s Sensor and Audio Business Unit, writes about voice control deployment on low power and resource constrained microcontroller-units (MCUs). The article discusses what to consider for the development of products using voice as a primary human interface, and how speech recognition models using AI technology can support a wide variety of use cases and languages, without compromising on power requirements.

ReadSpeaker, the Boston-based independent digital voice specialist, announced that Sonos has selected the ReadSpeaker VoiceLab to create the custom voice for Sonos Voice Control, the brand’s voice assistant that was just recently announced and will be available in June 2022. Sonos selected VoiceLab, ReadSpeaker’s custom voice production unit because of the company’s proven experience and expertise in state-of-the-art, AI-driven text-to-speech.

Speechmatics, a leading British company in deep learning and speech recognition technology, has launched its ‘Autonomous Speech Recognition’ software. Using the latest techniques in deep learning and with the introduction of new breakthrough self-supervised models, Speechmatics claims to outperform Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft in accuracy and ability to understand all voices.