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.

Speech and audio quality specialists, HEAD acoustics GmbH from Herzogenrath, Germany, will be presenting its range of solutions at the Mobile World Congress (​​February 27 to March 2, 2017). Like many key development technology companies, HEAD acoustics will use the Barcelona show to demonstrate a new evaluation software of VoCAS (Voice Control Analysis System), as well as an update of its communication analysis software ACQUA 3.5.100.

Orfeo SoundWorks’s Bluetooth Earphones have been selected as a CES 2016 Innovation Awards Honoree in the Headphones category. The company introduced its InnerMic technology which, combined with VoiceRecovery processing technology allows for total intelligibility in any noisy environment. Basically, the concept consists in placing a microphone inside of the earphones to capture inner voice and block out all sound interference.