All items tagged with voice recognition (310)
Intel Announces New Development Kit for Far-Field Alexa-Enabled Products
November 2, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Intel Announces New Development Kit for Far-Field Alexa-Enabled Products

Intel has announced the Intel Speech Enabling Developer Kit, designed for manufacturers and developers to quickly bring new Alexa-enabled products to market. This kit is the first audio front end solution that combines far-field voice processing and "Alexa" wake word detection on a single chip. It is based on a new digital signal processor (DSP) architecture from Intel that enables high-quality voice capture in acoustically challenging environments.
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New Synaptics and NXP Alexa Development Kit Available at Arrow Electronics
November 1, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

New Synaptics and NXP Alexa Development Kit Available at Arrow Electronics

NXP has teamed up with Arrow Electronics, Synaptics and Amazon to develop the Synaptics AudioSmart 2-Mic and NXP Pico i.MX7Dual Development Kit for Amazon Alexa Voice Service (AVS). This newly available development kit is one of the first to be qualified with production-ready system-on-chip (SoC), voice processor, and the AVS Device SDK. It enables device makers to quickly and cost-effectively integrate Alexa into a fully functioning prototype and then take that work into design for manufacturing and production.
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TDK InvenSense MEMS Microphones Available with Synaptics AudioSmart Solution
November 1, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

TDK InvenSense MEMS Microphones Available with Synaptics AudioSmart Solution

TDK Corporation showcased a Synaptics AudioSmart solution for voice recognition, using InvenSense high performance MEMS microphones. The ICS-40212 and ICS-40720 analog output and the ICS-41350 PDM digital output MEMS microphones are approved for use with Synaptics AudioSmart Amazon Voice Services (AVS) solution. TDK also announced the worldwide availability of its SmartMotion Platform encompassing 4 unique development kits with multiple sensors.
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CEVA and Cyberon Partner for Ultra-low Power Always-listening Voice Activation Solution
October 30, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

CEVA and Cyberon Partner for Ultra-low Power Always-listening Voice Activation Solution

CEVA, a leading licensor of signal processing IP for smarter, connected devices, and Taiwan's leading embedded speech solution provider, Cyberon Corporation, announced a partnership to offer an ultra-low power, always-listening voice activation solution for smartphones, consumer and IoT devices. Cyberon has developed an optimized implementation of its CSpotter voice recognition engine for the CEVA-TeakLite family of DSPs.
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Ultimate Ears Introduces Portable Speakers with Amazon Alexa
October 20, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Ultimate Ears Introduces Portable Speakers with Amazon Alexa

A pioneer in portable speakers, Ultimate Ears now announced its new Ultimate Ears BLAST and Ultimate Ears MEGABLAST speakers, both featuring Amazon Alexa. The Logitech-owned brand joins the smart speaker craze with an evolution of its own popular portable speaker designs now with voice control. The new portable, wireless, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth speakers combine 360-degree sound capabilities with hands-free voice-control, for at home and on-the-go applications.
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Knowles Announces The World’s First Context-Aware, Machine Learning Optimized Audio Processor For Complex Voice Interactions
October 17, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Knowles Announces The World’s First Context-Aware, Machine Learning Optimized Audio Processor For Complex Voice Interactions

Knowles announced a new audio processor platform, the IA8508 open DSP platform, with four high performance, power efficient, heterogeneous cores and 5.7MB of shared memory for a variety of new use cases. The IA8508 advanced audio processor is optimized for performance and power in both near and far-field voice applications – making it the perfect solution for mobile phones, ear-worn products, and IoT devices such as digital assistants, smart speakers and TVs.
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Knowles Introduces Analog MEMS Microphone with 70 dB SNR for Voice and ANC Applications
October 13, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Knowles Introduces Analog MEMS Microphone with 70 dB SNR for Voice and ANC Applications

Knowles continues to expand its audio input technology product portfolio, as voice increasingly becomes the primary user interface for Internet of Things (IoT) devices and hearable applications. The company announced its new SPM0687LR5H-1 analog MEMS microphone with 70 dB Signal-to-Noise (SNR), for far-field connected audio solutions, such as voice recognition, and active noise cancelling (ANC) headphone applications.
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Vesper Partners with Synaptics on Far-field Voice Interfaces for Amazon Alexa Voice Service
October 11, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Vesper Partners with Synaptics on Far-field Voice Interfaces for Amazon Alexa Voice Service

Vesper, developer of the world’s most advanced piezoelectric acoustic sensors, announced a collaboration with Synaptics Incorporated, to improve developers’ ability to create ultra-durable, high-performance and highly stable voice interfaces for Amazon Alexa Voice Service (AVS) devices. Synaptics has selected Vesper piezoelectric MEMS microphones for its two- and four-microphone Amazon AVS development kits.
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Infineon High SNR MEMS Microphones Complement Amazon AVS Far-Field Development Kit from XMOS
October 9, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Infineon High SNR MEMS Microphones Complement Amazon AVS Far-Field Development Kit from XMOS

XMOS' VocalFusion 4-Mic Dev Kit for Amazon Alexa Voice Service (AVS) for far-field applications integrates Infineon’s high SNR MEMS microphones to ensure highest performance and reliability, creating the first Amazon AVS development kit with a linear mic array for far-field applications. The 4-Mic Development Kit features crystal clear voice capturing even in noisy environments. This enables commands to be accurately captured from across the room for processing by the Alexa cloud-based speech recognition system.
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Sonos Unveils Sonos One Smart Speaker with Support for Multiple Voice Services
October 5, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Sonos Unveils Sonos One Smart Speaker with Support for Multiple Voice Services

Sonos unveiled Sonos One, an all-new, voice-controlled smart speaker capable of supporting multiple voice services and audio content from more than 80 streaming services. Sonos One launches with Amazon Alexa support, and Google Assistant to follow in 2018. The Sonos One is priced at $199 USD and will be available globally on Oct. 24. The company also confirmed that additional free software updates will unlock Alexa voice control for current Sonos owners, as well as Apple AirPlay 2 and Siri support.
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