All items tagged with voice recognition (307)
Fraunhofer IIS Licenses Comprehensive MPEG Audio Codec Suite to NXP Semiconductors
March 2, 2020 by Joao Martins

Fraunhofer IIS Licenses Comprehensive MPEG Audio Codec Suite to NXP Semiconductors

Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS, the inventor of mp3 and primary developer of the xHE-AAC and MPEG-H Audio standards, announced that NXP Semiconductors has licensed Fraunhofer’s MPEG audio SDK. The complete software package covers four generations of audio codecs, from legacy MPEG Layer-1/2/3 to the next-generation MPEG-H 3D Audio standard and the AAC codec family, including xHE-AAC. NXP will incorporate these codecs in home entertainment product development, from set-top boxes and soundbars to smart speakers.
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NXP Announces Far-Field Offline Voice Control Solution In Collaboration with Sonos
February 26, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

NXP Announces Far-Field Offline Voice Control Solution In Collaboration with Sonos

NXP Semiconductors announced availability of its voice solution, SLN-LOCAL-IOT, a fully integrated development platform for offline voice control. The solution consists of a full hardware module design and associated software required to implement far-field voice control with a customizable wake word and local commands. NXP also announced market availability of the i.MX RT600 crossover microcontroller (MCU) family, ideal for ultra-low power audio and voice applications.
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SoundHound Partners With Wcities to Bring Extensive Location and Event Data to Houndify’s Voice AI Platform
February 17, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

SoundHound Partners With Wcities to Bring Extensive Location and Event Data to Houndify’s Voice AI Platform

SoundHound, the voice-enabled AI and conversational intelligence technology company, announced a partnership with Wcities, a travel and entertainment content publisher specializing in city guides and event aggregators, to bring location-based events data to the Houndify voice AI platform. This new collaboration will provide developers using Houndify with information on more than 3 million events worldwide to include in voice-enabled apps and services via Wcities’ eventseeker APIs.
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Brüel & Kjær Recommendations for Smart Speaker Testing
February 3, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Brüel & Kjær Recommendations for Smart Speaker Testing

Brüel & Kjær Sound & Vibration Measurement is promoting a set of recommendations for smart speaker testing, putting focus on the importance of realistic testing when developing and incorporating voice recognition functionalities into consumer products. The Danish sound and vibration specialist recommends the use of its high-frequency HATS Type 5218 and Mouth Simulator Type 4227 systems with human voice characteristics for realistic speech and sound testing of voice-operated devices.
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52% of US Smart Speaker Owners Are Controlling TV With Voice
January 28, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

52% of US Smart Speaker Owners Are Controlling TV With Voice

75 million people in the US are now using a smart speaker, and more than half of them – 39 million – are using it to control their smart TV, video streamer or other TV device at least weekly. This finding comes from Strategy Analytics’ latest report, 2019 Smart Speaker User Survey – US Results, and is based on a survey of 1136 users of smart speakers carried out in July and August 2019.
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LiveVox Announces Acquisition of Speech Analytics Specialist Firm SpeechIQ
January 28, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

LiveVox Announces Acquisition of Speech Analytics Specialist Firm SpeechIQ

LiveVox, the customer service and digital engagement tools company, announced the acquisition of SpeechIQ, a speech recognition and voice transcription technology company. LiveVox is a one-stop-shop for cloud-based CRM, call-center, contact center and customer engagement service platforms, unifying all conversations and interactions in one place. Adding voice recognition, voice to text transcription and analytics is obviously a great add-on for LiveVox.
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Smart Speaker Ownership Reaches 60 Million U.S. Adults
January 23, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Smart Speaker Ownership Reaches 60 Million U.S. Adults

New data from the latest installment of The Smart Audio Report from NPR and Edison Research confirms that smart speaker adoption continues to grow in the U.S. with 60M adults A18+ (24% of the population) now owning a smart speaker. And with spoken word audio listening up 20% from 2014, cutting into time spent with music, it's clear the audio landscape is changing dramatically – driven by technology advancements and content preferences alike.
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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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iHeartRadio Radio and Podcasts Available Via Hound App and Houndify Voice AI Platform
January 20, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

iHeartRadio Radio and Podcasts Available Via Hound App and Houndify Voice AI Platform

SoundHound, the voice-enabled AI platform and conversational intelligence technology company, announced a new integration with iHeartRadio to bring its audio content to SoundHound’s Hound app and Houndify voice AI platform. Through the partnership, Hound and Houndify users will have access to iHeartRadio’s free offerings including Live Radio (U.S. only), Artist Radio (U.S. only), and Podcasts (available globally except the U.K.).
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Syntiant and Sensory Demonstrate First Ultra-Low-Power Multi-Language Voice Solution At The Edge
January 9, 2020 by audioXpress Staff

Syntiant and Sensory Demonstrate First Ultra-Low-Power Multi-Language Voice Solution At The Edge

At CES 2020, Syntiant announced a partnership with Sensory, combining the expertise and technologies in AI and speech recognition at the Edge, to deliver a deep learning, multi-lingual voice interface for battery-powered devices. The combined solution merges Sensory’s larger, higher-performance TrulyHandsfree wake word engine and voice control with Syntiant’s microwatt-power Neural Decision Processors (NDPs), bringing low-latency, real-time inference to edge devices.
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