All items tagged with voice recognition (310)

Audio Engineering Society Introduces Audio Product Education Institute and First Interactive Voice Con Online Event

June 16, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Audio Engineering Society Introduces Audio Product Education Institute and First Interactive Voice Con Online Event

The Audio Product Education Institute (APEI) is an initiative of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) that is committed to furthering the knowledge and skills of professionals involved in the development of audio products. The new entity will present Interactive Voice Con, an online program designed to address real-world experiences in Voice Integrated Product Development. The first presentation will take place July 9, 2020 and registration is now open.

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.

DSP Concepts TalkTo Audio Front End Qualified by Amazon for Alexa Built-In Devices

June 11, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

DSP Concepts TalkTo Audio Front End Qualified by Amazon for Alexa Built-In Devices

DSP Concepts announced that TalkTo, its suite of proprietary microphone processing algorithms that use adaptive learning technology to deliver a quiet-room experience in noisy and unpredictable environments, has been qualified by Amazon for Alexa built-in devices using Alexa Voice Service (AVS). This enables more hardware brands to easily build Alexa built-in devices that will perform well even in noisy situations, thanks to TalkTo’s leading sound cancellation technology.

Voice Capture Challenges: The Threshold of the Golden Age of Voice

May 6, 2020 by Mike Klasco

Voice Capture Challenges: The Threshold of the Golden Age of Voice

Voice processing and recognition leading to the development of voice-based personal assistants is one of the decade’s greatest achievements and provides a unique opportunity for the audio industry. Leveraging those sophisticated technologies now available to the consumer electronics industry makes the investment on new designs much more exciting. In this article, Mike Klasco provides an introduction to the voice capture, signal processing and voice recognition challenges. This article was originally published in audioXpress, December 2018.

AAC Technologies Opens New MEMS Microphone Design Center in Scotland

May 1, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

AAC Technologies Opens New MEMS Microphone Design Center in Scotland

Expanding its commitment to invest in the build-out of a worldwide network of R&D centers that advance the technologies critical to the performance of smartphones and other mobile devices, AAC Technologies Holdings Inc., announced the opening of a MEMS microphone center in Edinburgh, Scotland. The new facility, focused on the design of next generation microphone system-level solutions, joins a growing worldwide network of R&D centers located in China, Denmark, Finland, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and the United States.

Number of Voice Assistant Devices in Use to Reach 8.4 Billion

April 29, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Number of Voice Assistant Devices in Use to Reach 8.4 Billion

A new report from Juniper Research has found that consumers will interact with voice assistants on over 8.4 billion devices by 2024; overtaking the world’s population and growing 113% compared to the 4.2 billion voice control devices expected to be in use by year end 2020. The value chain for voice assistants and interfaces is rapidly expanding to include more and more players, and device OEMs (from smartphones, speakers and wearables to cars and fridges), system integrators, apps developers and cloud providers are all escalating efforts to provide personalized voice solutions.

Libre Wireless Technologies Single Chip MAVID Solution is Now Amazon AWS IoT Core Certified

April 28, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Libre Wireless Technologies Single Chip MAVID Solution is Now Amazon AWS IoT Core Certified

Libre Wireless Technologies, the embedded wireless audio and voice/AI development platform company, announced that its MAVID low power mic-to-cloud edge computing solution expanded its unique RTOS platform to include new SDK releases. The company's flexible SDK for connected devices now features Amazon AWS IoT Core certification and leverages the responsive Free RTOS OS, combined in a scalable feature rich platform. The new development environment offers unique connectivity and libraries for manufacturers and ODMs developing on Libre Wireless's MAVID platform.

Challenges to Building Voice-Enabled Products

April 2, 2020 by Chin Beckmann

Challenges to Building Voice-Enabled Products

Voice-enabled devices are quickly becoming commonplace in nearly every region and for every consumer demographic. Whether making cloud-connected or offline products, OEMs need to understand what’s driving this demand for voice. Unlike some new product features, adding a voice interface requires product architects to make a number of highly-impactful, interconnected design decisions. Development teams don’t have it easy either, as integrating microphones in a product introduces another layer of complexity.

XMOS and Plumerai Partner To Bring Binarized Neural Networks to the Edge

April 2, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

XMOS and Plumerai Partner To Bring Binarized Neural Networks to the Edge

British technology companies XMOS and Plumerai have agreed a new strategic partnership that will support the development of binarized neural network (BNN) capabilities that enable AI to be embedded in a wide range of everyday devices efficiently at low power and at low cost. XMOS and Plumerai will bring together their deep learning expertise across chip design and algorithms in a binarized neural network capability, advancing the deployment of intelligence at the edge.

Delightfully Disruptive Huawei Sound X Wireless Speaker Co-Designed with Devialet

March 27, 2020 by Joao Martins

Delightfully Disruptive Huawei Sound X Wireless Speaker Co-Designed with Devialet

With China resuming production capabilities and companies back to work, the barrage of products that had been scheduled to be unveiled or launched at MWC Barcelona 2020 are now being announced. Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei unveiled its latest smartphone together with a new wireless speaker, co-designed with French audio company Devialet. Announced to the world during an "online product release event," the all-new Huawei-Devialet joint wireless speaker stands-out for the electro-acoustic design and the patently intent to copy the Apple HomePod.

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