All items tagged with voice recognition (310)
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.
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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.
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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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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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