All items tagged with voice recognition and hearables (17)

Dolphin Design Unveils Innovative IP for Sound Classification Reducing Power Requirements by 99%

June 27, 2023 by audioXpress Staff

Dolphin Design Unveils Innovative IP for Sound Classification Reducing Power Requirements by 99%

Dolphin Design, a semiconductor designer of power management, audio, and processing devices with in-house ASIC design services, announced the launch of WhisperExtractor, a mixed-signal technology for voice and audio-enabled SoCs, enabling voice and sound classification at a record µW level power budget. The new technology paves the way to breakthrough always-on voice user interface, real time speech-to-text, and always-on sound detection.

Hearables, Headphones Testing, Audio Electronics, and More in audioXpress April 2023

March 10, 2023 by audioXpress Staff

Hearables, Headphones Testing, Audio Electronics, and More in audioXpress April 2023

Want to understand what's ahead in the most revolutionary audio product category of the 21st century? Read the State of the Hearables Industry Market Update. And for product developers and manufacturers, there's also a Headphones Test and Measurement report. Burkhard Vogel discusses op-amp noise in simulated models, Bruce E. Gillingham offers a complete monoblock power amplifier project, and René Christensen writes about acoustic topology optimization. And so much more....

Fluent.ai and Knowles Partner to Deliver True Wireless Stereo Voice Control

January 6, 2022 by audioXpress Staff

Fluent.ai and Knowles Partner to Deliver True Wireless Stereo Voice Control

Fluent.ai announced its collaboration with Knowles Corporation to deliver AI-powered voice control for True Wireless Stereo (TWS) earbuds and other hearable products, fully on-device. Running on Knowles' AISonic processors, providing a small footprint embedded technology for edge AI, the solution allows developers to implement noise robust voice commands to trigger TWS actions in any language or accent, without the need for an Internet connection or accompanying smartphone app.

Cadence Announces New Tensilica HiFi 1 DSP Optimized for Bluetooth LE Audio True Wireless Devices

October 29, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Cadence Announces New Tensilica HiFi 1 DSP Optimized for Bluetooth LE Audio True Wireless Devices

Cadence Design Systems announced the new Cadence Tensilica HiFi 1 DSP, delivering increased voice- and music-processing performance with optimal neural network capability in a compact footprint with ultra-low energy, improving the user experience and extending battery life. The Tensilica HiFi 1 DSP is now the smallest and lowest power member of the HiFi DSP family, developed for battery-constrained applications, such as mobile, hearables, wearables, automotive, and connected devices.

Feeling The Audio Industry's Pulse

March 11, 2021 by Joao Martins

Feeling The Audio Industry's Pulse

It's been precisely a year since the global COVID-19 pandemic was declared and we all had to refrain from our normal routines and shelter in place, being restricted to working from home until now. At least for the audioXpress team. A year past, and we are glad to be able to signal that during that year we've kept our publications and even grown our online audiences and achieved extremely positive results. Mainly, because we continued to offer the best content for anyone interested in following the audio industry, audio product development, audio innovations, and DIY audio.

DSP Group Unveils DBM10 Low-Power Edge AI/ML SoC with Dedicated Neural Network Inference Processor

January 7, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

DSP Group Unveils DBM10 Low-Power Edge AI/ML SoC with Dedicated Neural Network Inference Processor

DSP Group announced the DBM10, a new low-power, cost-effective artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) system-on-chip (SoC). This new open platform, with a cost- and power-optimized architecture, enables rapid development of AI and ML applications for mobile, wearables, hearables, and connected devices in general. It provides a complete platform in terms of voice and audio processing, without compromising the battery life of new designs, and allowing developers to implement their own differentiating algorithms.

Syntiant Introduces Second Generation NDP120 Deep Learning Processor for Audio and Sensor Applications

January 7, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Syntiant Introduces Second Generation NDP120 Deep Learning Processor for Audio and Sensor Applications

Syntiant Corp., the AI for edge devices chip technology company from Irvine, California, announced the availability of its latest Syntiant NDP120 Neural Decision Processor (NDP), a new generation of special purpose chips for audio and sensor processing for always-on applications in battery-powered devices. The low-power Syntiant Core 2 technology in the NDP120 processor delivers 25x the tensor throughput of the core technology found in earlier Syntiant NDP devices that are currently shipping in high volumes.

Voice Commands on The Edge: How Syntiant Is Solving the Power Problem

June 11, 2020 by David Lindberg

Voice Commands on The Edge: How Syntiant Is Solving the Power Problem

Alexa! OK Google! Hey Siri! Did we get your attention? If we were to have read that aloud most of us would have our favorite robot voice asking us what we want. Whether it is Amazon Alexa, Google Home, or another assistant, voice commands are the logical next step in user interfaces (UI). The uptake in the market has been extremely good for these devices. However, deployment has exposed some major issues with this technology. In this article I'm going to discuss the Syntiant NDP 10x processor and how it solves the aforementioned challenges.

Essential Updates on Headphones, TWS, Hearables, Voice and More in audioXpress April 2020

March 9, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Essential Updates on Headphones, TWS, Hearables, Voice and More in audioXpress April 2020

The April 2020 edition of audioXpress is now available and features two essential Market Updates, one focusing on the industry transition to active headphone and earphone designs, and another on how to leverage the latest voice capture and processing technologies. The issue also explains how to evaluate listening effort, and Stuart Yaniger puts the Linear Audio Autoranger Mk II Interface to the test, while Ed Simon writes about AC Power Rectification. Another issue to read and use as reference.

MWC Barcelona 2020 Cancelled!

January 20, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

MWC Barcelona 2020 Cancelled!

The 2020 edition of the Mobile World Congress (MWC) will take place again in Barcelona, even with all the political instability in the region, with no Uber service, and with all the geo-political pressures against the Chinese telecom giant Huawei, which is a major sponsor of the event. Indifferent to all this, MWC Barcelona 2020 will once again allow a unique perspective on the future of advanced audio applications, smart speakers, voice recognition and, obviously, true wireless earbuds.

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