All items tagged with voice recognition and smart home (38)

R&D Stories: Engineering Voice-Enabled Smart Gadgets

July 18, 2018 by Ofer Elyakim

R&D Stories: Engineering Voice-Enabled Smart Gadgets

The first step companies face in enabling a voice user interface (VUI) experience is to decide whether to partner with a current market offering or to build a proprietary voice solution, which requires a significant amount of resources. In this article, Ofer Elyakim (Chief Executive Officer, DSP Group) offers an overview of DSP Group’s experience in enabling voice in a variety of new consumer electronics devices, using its open audio/voice DSP platform. This article was originally published in audioxpress, June 2018.

New Listen Seminars in Boston and Chicago on Testing Smart Speakers, Voice Controlled Devices, Automotive Audio and More

June 12, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

New Listen Seminars in Boston and Chicago on Testing Smart Speakers, Voice Controlled Devices, Automotive Audio and More

Smarter Measurements for Smarter Speakers is the motto for the recent series of free seminars promoted by Listen Inc, detailing the latest routines for measurement of smart speakers, robots, automotive audio, smart home controls, and much more. Arriving to Addison (Chicago area), IL, Jul 18, and Waltham (Boston area), MA, Jul 20. Essential knowledge for all audio professionals wanting to keep up to date on dealing with the latest market trends.

Feel the Beat: Loudspeaker Industry Sourcebook 2018 Now Available!

June 4, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Feel the Beat: Loudspeaker Industry Sourcebook 2018 Now Available!

The 2018 Loudspeaker Industry Sourcebook (LIS) is now available! In the best tradition, the LIS 2018 edition contains so much more than the listings - You will find a complete series of must-read articles for anyone in the audio industry. Combining the editorial resources of our monthly publications, audioXpress and Voice Coil, LIS 2018 contains cutting-edge articles from some of the finest industry leaders, interviews with audio professionals on trending industry topics, and our annual industry reports about the state of the industry.

Speakers and Voice Development - A Conversation with NXP

February 22, 2018 by Joao Martins

Speakers and Voice Development - A Conversation with NXP

After reviewing my notes from CES 2018 and the announcements from NXP, I decided it was fitting to share some parts of my interview with Martyn Humphries, vice president and general manager Media IoT and i.MX Applications Processors at NXP (and former Freescale executive). Basically, we discussed the environment that lead NXP to create its i.MX 8M single-chip media application processors, currently the most advanced integrated platform available for audio manufacturers.

Qorvo and HUMAX Provide Complete Zigbee-based Smart Home Voice Assistant System

December 29, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Qorvo and HUMAX Provide Complete Zigbee-based Smart Home Voice Assistant System

RF solutions specialist Qorvo announced that its multi-stack, multi-protocol GP712 System-on-Chip was implemented in the new Zigbee-based HUMAX Chorus Voice Assistant. The pairing allows creating a turnkey ultra-compatible smart home system for IoT operators that integrates gateways, sensor devices, cloud platforms and mobile applications. The new Qorvo/HUMAX voice solution will be showcased during CES 2018, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

XMOS Extends Portfolio of Far-Field Voice Capture Solutions with New xCORE VocalFusion Speaker Linear Evaluation Kit

November 30, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

XMOS Extends Portfolio of Far-Field Voice Capture Solutions with New xCORE VocalFusion Speaker Linear Evaluation Kit

XMOS announced commercial availability of the xCORE VocalFusion Speaker Linear evaluation kit as part of its range of innovative far-field voice capture solutions. Based on the XMOS VocalFusion XVF3100 voice processor, the kit is designed for developers, OEMs and ODMs integrating voice user interfaces into flat, or linear consumer electronics typically found at the “edge of the room”, such as smart home control panels and washing machines.

Teenage Engineering, Raven and Baidu's Collaboration on New Smart Speaker Concepts

November 20, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Teenage Engineering, Raven and Baidu's Collaboration on New Smart Speaker Concepts

Baidu, a company known as China's search engine is investing heavily in its own voice engine, artificial intelligence (AI), and even hardware technologies, following Google's footsteps. Earlier this year, Baidu acquired Raven, a Beijing-based smart home startup, and the first results of that investment have now been revealed with two voice-activated speakers that run on the company's own AI platform. The design was the result of a cooperation with a Swedish start-up, Teenage Engineering.

Amazon Introduces Alexa, Alexa Skills Kit and Alexa Voice Service to Canada

November 15, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Amazon Introduces Alexa, Alexa Skills Kit and Alexa Voice Service to Canada

Amazon announced that Alexa, the voice recognition engine that powers the Amazon Echo range of smart speakers, is now available for Canada, along with three Alexa-enabled devices: Echo, Echo Plus, and Echo Dot. The expansion also means that the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK) and the Alexa Voice Service (AVS), enabling developers to build voice experiences for Alexa users will now be available for English speakers in Canada.

Change and Opportunities in the Audio Landscape

November 10, 2017 by Joao Martins

Change and Opportunities in the Audio Landscape

On November 9, 2017, I attended the Futuresource Audio Collaborative 2017 conference, at the Ham Yard Hotel in London. With the topic "A Change is Gonna Come," the conference was a valuable and insightful event. To entice our readers to actually spend the hours listening to those interventions (and for those that don't have the time to do it), I will share some of the key highlights, adding some personal takes on the topics addressed.

Google Unveils New Home Smart Speakers and Wireless Pixel Buds

October 5, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Google Unveils New Home Smart Speakers and Wireless Pixel Buds

Google is all-in in its determination to compete with Amazon, Apple and everyone else on the hardware front. On the same day, Google unveiled its second-generation family of consumer hardware products, including new Pixel 2 smartphones, Google Home Mini and Max smart speakers, an all-new Pixelbook tablet/laptop, Google Pixel Buds wireless earbuds, and more. No longer releasing "reference hardware" for its software ecosystem, Google is apparently determined to emulate Apple's successful strategy.

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