All items tagged with voice recognition (313)
Libre Wireless Technologies Partners with Gigaset to Create New Amazon Alexa Built-In DECT Devices
April 24, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Libre Wireless Technologies Partners with Gigaset to Create New Amazon Alexa Built-In DECT Devices

Leading embedded wireless voice/AI solutions provider Libre Wireless Technologies announced the launch of new voice enabled communications products with Gigaset, Europe’s largest Telco producer and top five in the world. These audio products are industry leading smart communications products featuring Alexa Voice Assistant Built-In that is seamlessly integrated with advanced voice calling features on traditional DECT and PSTN phone systems, combining technology from Libre and DSP Group.
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Audioburst Announces Additional Investment and Strategic Partnerships for In-Car Solutions
April 24, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Audioburst Announces Additional Investment and Strategic Partnerships for In-Car Solutions

Audioburst announced two new strategic and investment partnerships totaling over $10M USD from Dentsu Inc. and Hyundai Motor Company in conjunction with existing investors. The next-gen voice-search company plans to build unique advertising and in-car voice-based experiences with the two leading brands. Audioburst also announced plans to formally launch in the Japanese market at the end of 2019 with Japanese language capabilities.
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20 Million Vehicles Shipping in 2023 will Come Equipped with Voice Assistants
April 10, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

20 Million Vehicles Shipping in 2023 will Come Equipped with Voice Assistants

As voice control continues to gain popularity in the home, consumers are increasingly hoping to use Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, or Apple Siri in the vehicle too. An increasing number of OEMs are now poised to give into popular consumer demands and integrate Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant in-vehicle, despite concerns over data and OEM-branding. According to ABI Research, 20 million vehicles shipping in 2023 are expected to enable one or more of these assistants, without consumers requiring a handset to use the digital assistant.
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Qualcomm Launches AI-Enabled Highly Integrated SoCs and Dedicated Smart Speaker Platform
March 19, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Qualcomm Launches AI-Enabled Highly Integrated SoCs and Dedicated Smart Speaker Platform

Qualcomm made two important announcements for audio developers, both bound to significantly impact the fast-growing market of smart speakers and new generation whole-home audio systems. The San Diego company announced the new QCS400 family of audio SoCs and the Smart Audio Platform 400 development kit, bringing smart speakers high-performance processing, Qualcomm AI Engine, superior connectivity, and multiple advanced audio and visual display capabilities in a single, power-optimized chip architecture.
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QuickLogic Announces Time Series EOS S3AI Development Platform for Endpoint AI and Machine Learning Applications
March 18, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

QuickLogic Announces Time Series EOS S3AI Development Platform for Endpoint AI and Machine Learning Applications

QuickLogic, the developer of ultra-low power multi-core voice-enabled SoCs, embedded FPGA IP, and Endpoint AI solutions, announced the launch of its EOS S3AI platform for endpoint Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) applications. The new AI platform provides all the hardware blocks needed to enable low power AI at the connected device endpoint. It comes with time-series (continuous) sensors, including accelerometer / gyroscope / magnetometer motion sensors and two digital microphones (PDMs).
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DSP Concepts Announces TalkTo Microphone Processing Technology for Voice-Controlled Products
March 13, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

DSP Concepts Announces TalkTo Microphone Processing Technology for Voice-Controlled Products

DSP Concepts has launched TalkTo, a new brand and a major expansion of its voice recognition technologies. TalkTo is a family of software-based Audio Front Ends for voice-controlled products. It uses advanced microphone processing and machine learning techniques to deliver highly reliable voice control, even in high-noise environments and with multichannel audio products. According to the company, TakTo will enable voice interfaces even in the most difficult classes of products, like TVs and soundbars.
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Fluent.ai Demonstrates Embedded Single Engine Multi-WakeWord and Speech Commands Recognition Solution for Micro-CPU Architectures
March 1, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Fluent.ai Demonstrates Embedded Single Engine Multi-WakeWord and Speech Commands Recognition Solution for Micro-CPU Architectures

Fluent.ai, the speech recognition provider offering fully embeddable speech recognition solutions in any language, announced the release of its ultra low-power voice control solution for embedded platforms such as Cortex M4F processors. This breakthrough new solution delivers, using a single engine, multiple wakewords in parallel and up to 50 multilingual commands with variable phrasing on a footprint equivalent to 50 MHz CPU, 128KB of RAM, and 550 KB of flash storage - a quantum leap over currently available software solutions.
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DSP Group and Snips Announce Technology Partnership on Multi-Room Embedded Voice Recognition Architecture
February 26, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

DSP Group and Snips Announce Technology Partnership on Multi-Room Embedded Voice Recognition Architecture

DSP Group and Snips, the European pioneer in embedded voice recognition software, announced a technology partnership which combines Snips’ voice software with DSP Group’s Ultra Low Energy (ULE) system-on-chip (SoC) and modules. According to the announcement, this combination of software and hardware running over the ULE network extends the reach of natural voice-controlled edge devices and could become a natural choice for multi-room smart home and smart building applications.
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Listen Offers ETSI Standard Background Noise Generation System
February 22, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Listen Offers ETSI Standard Background Noise Generation System

Listen has launched the ETSI standard background noise generation module, a SoundCheck test sequence which calibrates a 4.1 speaker array to conform with the ETSI ES 202 396-1 Standard. This provides an equalized, calibrated playback solution to stress devices in a standardized and repeatable way. With a purchase price of just $5,000 for the test sequence, this offers an extremely economical alternative to a conventional $20,000+ stand-alone background noise generation system.
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Sensory Acquires Vocalize.ai for Speech Technology Testing Capabilities
February 14, 2019 by audioXpress Staff

Sensory Acquires Vocalize.ai for Speech Technology Testing Capabilities

Sensory Inc., a Silicon Valley company that pioneered speech recognition and AI in consumer electronics, announced the acquisition of Vocalize.ai, a software tools and services company that performs benchmarking, accuracy assessments and bias evaluations for speech technologies and natural language interfaces. As part of the acquisition, Sensory will maintain Vocalize.ai as an independently operated division.
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