All items tagged with voice recognition (307)
Apple Updates All Hardware and Software at WWDC17 and Announces HomePod Speaker
June 6, 2017 by Joao Martins

Apple Updates All Hardware and Software at WWDC17 and Announces HomePod Speaker

Apple's opening keynote for its Worldwide Developers Conference 2017 (WWDC17) at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, was a swirl of long expected announcements, wrapped in surprising underlying technology revelations. Among the many announcements was the preview of Apple's new home music speaker with built-in-far-field voice recognition powered by Apple Siri, the HomePod. As expected, the design is a powerful combination of electroacoustic mastery, digital processing and smart connectivity.
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Frontier Silicon Announces Smart Audio Solution with Google Assistant
May 26, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Frontier Silicon Announces Smart Audio Solution with Google Assistant

Frontier Silicon announced that its Smart Audio platform, Minuet, has been upgraded to include Google Assistant. Minuet already allows brands and manufacturers to develop smart audio devices with Chromecast built-in. With the addition of Google Assistant, users will be able to control their smart speakers via voice and use these speakers not only to play music but also to access Internet services, such as news, update personal schedules and control a wide range of smart home devices.
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Sensory’s Fusion of Face and Voice Biometric Recognition Gets IQ Boost and Broader Mobile OS Support
May 22, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Sensory’s Fusion of Face and Voice Biometric Recognition Gets IQ Boost and Broader Mobile OS Support

Speech and vision technologies specialist Sensory announced the second major update to TrulySecure, its FIDO Certified multimodal biometric authentication technology. TrulySecure quickly, conveniently and securely recognizes enrolled users through a fusion of face and voice biometric recognition technologies in less than a second, and differentiates individuals at a 99.999% accuracy rate – all without requiring any costly and space consuming biometric scanners.
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miniDSP Introduces UMA-8 USB Microphone Array for Voice-Activated Applications
May 18, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

miniDSP Introduces UMA-8 USB Microphone Array for Voice-Activated Applications

The new miniDSP UMA-8 is a high-performance yet low cost multichannel USB microphone array built around XMOS multicore technology, designed for voice-recognition application development. Seven high-performance MEMS microphones are configured in a circular arrangement to provide high-quality voice capture for a wide range of applications. Leveraging the onboard DSP processing, the UMA-8 supports voice algorithms including beamforming, noise reduction, acoustic echo cancellation and de-reverb.
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Harman Previews Harman Kardon Invoke Voice-Activated Speaker with Cortana from Microsoft
May 8, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Harman Previews Harman Kardon Invoke Voice-Activated Speaker with Cortana from Microsoft

R&D departments in the whole global audio and mobile industries are focused on developing the next-generation of voice-activated speakers exploring the success of the Amazon Echo. Most companies are exploring the tools and developments kits that make it easy to implement Amazon's Alexa or Google's Assistant voice personal assistants. Now, Harman unveiled its own effort of a voice-activated speaker, working with Microsoft's Cortana and featuring improved audio features.
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SAR Insight & Consulting Publishes The Voice Algorithm Software Ecosystem Market Report
April 28, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

SAR Insight & Consulting Publishes The Voice Algorithm Software Ecosystem Market Report

According to the latest report from SAR Insight & Consulting, strong growth is expected for all voice software, driven by its inclusion in increasing numbers of voice-enabled devices and by the increased use of digital assistants. “SAR has repeatedly discussed the scale and opportunity of the voice tech market,” says Peter Cooney, principal analyst at SAR. “Voice will be the main interface technology for many devices and the opportunities for hardware and software vendors will be huge.”
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Far Field Voice Assistant Speaker Makes Phone Calls
April 14, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Far Field Voice Assistant Speaker Makes Phone Calls

During the Hong Kong Electronics Fair Spring Edition, leading embedded WiFi and wireless solution provider Libre Wireless Technologies announced an advanced consumer solution that allows voice activated and controlled Wi-Fi home speakers to make phone calls using an existing phone system. The solution is based on Libre Wireless LibreSync wireless media platform, combining key partnerships with DSP Group, which provides wireless phone solutions and audio processing technology, and consumer electronic lifestyle brand Nyne.
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Fortemedia Introduces Low-Power iM501 Voice Processor for Wearables and Smart Home Applications
April 11, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Fortemedia Introduces Low-Power iM501 Voice Processor for Wearables and Smart Home Applications

Voice processing has become one of the indispensable technologies on smart home and wearable devices. Precise and prompt voice command recognition, along with minimizing power consumption are key for these applications. Small array microphone and voice acoustic processing technology specialists, Fortemedia introduced its new iM501 voice processor, embedding a high-end Tensilica HiFi Mini DSP core, and providing a best-in-class solution for always-on voice detection with low power consumption.
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3PASS flex: New Background Noise Simulation System for Multi-Microphone Arrangements
April 11, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

3PASS flex: New Background Noise Simulation System for Multi-Microphone Arrangements

3PASS flex is HEAD acoustics new simulation system for measuring speech quality performance in the presence of background noise. It is particularly suited for testing multi-microphone systems, microphone arrays or beamforming microphones in real world conditions where multi-point noise simulation with flexible microphone and loudspeaker arrays is required. 3PASS flex reproduces any previously recorded sound field at distinct microphone positions, representative of typical use cases.
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Philips Launches Brand-New Music and Voice Audio Recorder with Three Microphones
March 22, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Philips Launches Brand-New Music and Voice Audio Recorder with Three Microphones

Austrian company Speech Processing Solutions, a Philips subsidiary, has announced a new audio recorder, which expands the company's tradition with voice recording also as a recording device for music enthusiasts. The Philips VoiceTracer audio recorder DVT7500 has been specially developed for high quality recordings, combining three high-quality microphones, an XLR and line-in connector, as well as 16GB of internal storage space. And of course, it still supports the company's famous voice to text applications.
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