All items tagged with voice recognition (307)

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.

CEVA Announces DSP and Voice Neural Networks Integration for Power-Efficient Edge Processors

March 25, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

CEVA Announces DSP and Voice Neural Networks Integration for Power-Efficient Edge Processors

CEVA announced that its CEVA-BX DSP cores and WhisPro speech recognition software now also support TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers, a production ready, cross-platform framework for deploying tiny machine learning on power-efficient processors in edge devices. WhisPro is CEVA's speech recognition software for voice wake words and custom command models. TensorFlow Lite for Microcontrollers is a solution from Google for implementing machine learning at the edge, already optimized and available for CEVA-BX DSP cores.

Ambiq Micro Licenses CEVA’s Bluetooth Low Energy IP for Next-Generation SPOT Platforms

March 11, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Ambiq Micro Licenses CEVA’s Bluetooth Low Energy IP for Next-Generation SPOT Platforms

CEVA announced that Ambiq Micro has licensed CEVA’s RivieraWaves Bluetooth low energy IP for use in its next-generation Subthreshold Power-Optimized Technology (SPOT) platforms integrating Bluetooth connectivity. CEVA’s Bluetooth low energy (BLE) IP is already powering Ambiq Micro’s Apollo3 Blue Family Wireless System-on-Chip (SoC), used in applications requiring intelligence everywhere, from wearables to animal trackers to smart home devices.

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.

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