All items tagged with voice recognition and CES 2018 (7)

Alango Prepares for Launch of Wear & Hear Line of Assistive Hearing Products

March 20, 2018 by Joao Martins

Alango Prepares for Launch of Wear & Hear Line of Assistive Hearing Products

Alango Technologies is getting ready to launch its new Wear & Hear line of assistive hearing products, starting with BeHear Now, an advanced Bluetooth stereo headset and hearing enhancer, featuring advanced audio processing with personal adjustments. Unique technologies include the company's ListenThrough enhancement of ambient sounds, music and phone calls, and EasyListen, which slows down incoming speech in real time.

Speakers and Voice Development - A Conversation with NXP

February 22, 2018 by Joao Martins

Speakers and Voice Development - A Conversation with NXP

After reviewing my notes from CES 2018 and the announcements from NXP, I decided it was fitting to share some parts of my interview with Martyn Humphries, vice president and general manager Media IoT and i.MX Applications Processors at NXP (and former Freescale executive). Basically, we discussed the environment that lead NXP to create its i.MX 8M single-chip media application processors, currently the most advanced integrated platform available for audio manufacturers.

CEVA Introduces ClearVox Solution for Enhanced Speech Intelligibility in Voice-Enabled Devices

January 8, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

CEVA Introduces ClearVox Solution for Enhanced Speech Intelligibility in Voice-Enabled Devices

CEVA, a leading licensor of signal processing platforms for smart, connected devices, introduced ClearVox, a new software suite of advanced voice input processing algorithms aimed at enhancing speech intelligibility and voice clarity for voice-enabled devices. ClearVox is licensed exclusively for the CEVA-TeakLite-4 and CEVA-X2 audio/voice DSPs, and extends the company’s voice portfolio with multi-mic beamforming, speaker direction of arrival, noise suppression and echo cancellation algorithms.

Avnet and Aaware Introduce New Sound Capture Platform to Enable Advanced Voice Interface Applications

January 5, 2018 by audioXpress Staff

Avnet and Aaware Introduce New Sound Capture Platform to Enable Advanced Voice Interface Applications

Global Distribution Platform Avnet and Aaware, an emerging global supplier of sound capture technology for far-field, voice-enabled products, introduced Aaware’s Sound Capture Platform, designed to provide product development teams with higher performance, scale and flexibility. The solution leverages Avnet’s MiniZed Zynq SoC development platform to improve sound capture performance for smart home, industrial and robotics applications.

Fluency-as-a-Service (FaaS) makes AI Voice Interfaces Available in Any Language

December 26, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

Fluency-as-a-Service (FaaS) makes AI Voice Interfaces Available in Any Language

Fluent.ai Inc., the company that claims to have created "the world’s first acoustic-only multi-lingual voice interface" is now offering an intuitive and flexible Platform-as-a-Service, FaaS, for developers. According to the company, the platform allows implementations of the company's artificial-intelligence solution to "quickly customize reliable and robust voice capabilities for consumer devices and cloud service applications."

XMOS Enables Far-Field Voice Technology for Pegatron Martina Smart Speaker Interface to Google Cloud Services

December 7, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

XMOS Enables Far-Field Voice Technology for Pegatron Martina Smart Speaker Interface to Google Cloud Services

XMOS confirmed that its VocalFusion voice technology has been selected by leading electronic and computing Design and Manufacturing Service (DMS) firm, Pegatron Corporation, for its new smart voice assistant Martina. Pegatron’s Martina is powered by XMOS' XVF3000 voice processor, delivering crystal clear voice capture, with connection to Google Cloud Services and natural language recognition technology in Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean.

XMOS Announces First True-Stereo AEC Linear Voice Processor and Far-Field Voice Kit for Smart Devices

December 4, 2017 by audioXpress Staff

XMOS Announces First True-Stereo AEC Linear Voice Processor and Far-Field Voice Kit for Smart Devices

XMOS announced the XVF3500 voice processor which delivers 2-channel full duplex acoustic echo cancellation (AEC), along with the world’s first stereo AEC far-field linear microphone array solution, the VocalFusion Stereo Evaluation Kit (XK-VF3500-L33). The XVF3500 voice processor is designed for developers working in the growing voice-enabled smart TV, soundbar, set-top box, and digital media adapter markets, all of which require stereo-AEC support for “across the room” voice-interface solutions.