All items tagged with voice recognition (313)
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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Sensory Unveils TrulyNatural Voice Assistant SDK Specific for Smart Appliances
December 26, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Sensory Unveils TrulyNatural Voice Assistant SDK Specific for Smart Appliances

Sensory announced the release of a specialized model of TrulyNatural, the company's large vocabulary speech recognition and natural language understanding platform, that has been designed for voice at the edge. This domain specific assistant technology will help manufacturers create a new wave of smart kitchen appliances that don't relay voice requests to the cloud. Collaborating with Midea Microwave and Cleaner Appliances (MCA) business unit, Sensory will preview a microwave oven with a natural language user interface at CES 2020.
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Sensory Updates TrulyHandsfree Wake Word AI to Support Cross-Platform and Multiple Voice Assistants
December 12, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Sensory Updates TrulyHandsfree Wake Word AI to Support Cross-Platform and Multiple Voice Assistants

Sensory announced new capabilities for TrulyHandsfree, the company’s widely-deployed wake word engine for voice assistants, adding support for multiple wake words from any combination of leading platforms, custom branded wake words, small vocabulary command sets or even user defined wake words where the end user can create their own phrase. This technology supports Amazon's Voice Interoperability Initiative (VII) announced in September 2019.
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MEMS Microphones and Speakers Forecasted to Become a $20 Billion USD Industry in 2024
December 6, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

MEMS Microphones and Speakers Forecasted to Become a $20 Billion USD Industry in 2024

French market research firm Yole Développement just published its 2019 report on Microphones, Microspeakers, and Audio Solutions – Market and Technology Trends. The new report characterizes the main drivers behind the exponential growth in MEMS microphone applications and emerging MEMS speaker technologies, growth opportunities such as voice at the heart of new audio system applications, or the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the audio value chain.
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Audio Collaborative 2019: Two Key Audio Trends and What to Expect
December 5, 2019 by Joao Martins

Audio Collaborative 2019: Two Key Audio Trends and What to Expect

Promoted every year by the market research firm Futuresource Consulting, Audio Collaborative 2019 full-day conference on November 7 was invaluable, with Futuresource's leading market analysts and researchers sharing some of the latest stats and trends on the topics in the agenda, combined with great panels and in-between keynotes. This is the third of my reports, originally published in The Audio Voice newsletter.
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