All items tagged with artificial intelligence (277)
Soniox Releases Knowledge Augmented Audio AI for Contextual Transcription
July 29, 2021 by Joao Martins

Soniox Releases Knowledge Augmented Audio AI for Contextual Transcription

Soniox already offers a very accurate speech recognition transcription engine for English language, and the company now released an audio AI solution that automatically annotates the transcribed audio with real-world entities and their contextual information, providing an augmented representation of the audio stream in real-time and low-latency. Soniox offers this novel technology in Soniox APIs, iOS app and web application.
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7digital and Super Hi-Fi Announce Partnership Integration to Improve Music Listening Experiences with AI
July 14, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

7digital and Super Hi-Fi Announce Partnership Integration to Improve Music Listening Experiences with AI

Super Hi-Fi, an audio technology company leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to deliver next-generation music listening experiences, announced that it is expanding its partnership program in B2B music services. 7digital, a music delivery services company will use Super Hi-Fi’s platform to bring advanced playback and AI-powered recommendations to their playlisting and curation tools.
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Automotive Suppliers Continental and Elektrobit Unveil In-Vehicle Integration of Amazon’s Alexa Custom Assistant
July 7, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Automotive Suppliers Continental and Elektrobit Unveil In-Vehicle Integration of Amazon’s Alexa Custom Assistant

Continental and Elektrobit, a supplier of embedded and connected software products and services for the automotive industry, announced the first in-vehicle integration of Alexa Custom Assistant, a comprehensive solution that lets automakers access Alexa’s advanced AI to create their own branded, intelligent assistants. The integration uses Continental’s Cockpit High Performance Computer with software and integration services provided by Elektrobit.
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Skullcandy Confirms Partnership with Bragi for Software Upgradable True Wireless Earbuds
June 29, 2021 by Joao Martins

Skullcandy Confirms Partnership with Bragi for Software Upgradable True Wireless Earbuds

Skullcandy, the headphone company from Park City, Utah, announced a partnership with Bragi, the inventor and largest intellectual property owner of true wireless headphones, now licensing its software to brands and manufacturers worldwide. The partnership enables Skullcandy to create truly smart, future-proof audio products, infused with easy-to-use, transformative technology incorporating Bragi’s software platform featuring embedded AI.
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Cadence Announces New Tensilica FloatingPoint DSP Family for Low Power AI/ML
June 18, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Cadence Announces New Tensilica FloatingPoint DSP Family for Low Power AI/ML

Cadence Design Systems unveiled the Cadence Tensilica FloatingPoint DSP family, optimized for power, performance and area (PPA). The new DSP IP cores extend from small, ultra-low power to very high performance and are well-suited for a broad array of applications, from energy-efficient solutions for battery powered devices to artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), sensor fusion, object tracking and augmented reality applications in the mobile, automotive, and consumer markets.
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Circulr Pitches AI Neckphones for Modern Lifestyles
June 17, 2021 by Joao Martins

Circulr Pitches AI Neckphones for Modern Lifestyles

To reduce accidents in micro-mobility, Danish startup Circulr Sound Tech ApS, proposes introducing neckphones for modern lifestyles. The company's new take on neckbands is more akin to regular headphones which rest around the neck, instead of over the head and the ears, and use what Circulr defines as open-ear AI sound technology. The design combines elements from headphones, wearables and loudspeakers, allowing users to stay aware of the environment.
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AIStorm and Knowles Join Forces to Create New Edge AI Audio Solutions
June 16, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

AIStorm and Knowles Join Forces to Create New Edge AI Audio Solutions

AIStorm, a pioneer of AI-in-Sensor SoCs for edge devices, announced a development partnership with Knowles Corporation. The collaboration will focus on achieving the lowest-power, highest-performance audio solutions available to enable emerging features. AIStorm’s patented analog and mixed-signal IP, combined with Knowles’ audio signal processing technology and advanced micro-acoustic microphones and speakers, bring enhanced audio features and power savings to mobile, true wireless stereo (TWS) earbuds, and connected devices.
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STMicroelectronics Acquires Edge AI Software Specialist Cartesiam
May 21, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

STMicroelectronics Acquires Edge AI Software Specialist Cartesiam

STMicroelectronics announced a transaction with Cartesiam to acquire its assets (including its IP portfolio) and to transfer and integrate its employees. Cartesiam, based in Toulon (France), is a software company founded in 2016, which specializes in artificial intelligence (AI) development tools enabling machine-learning and inferencing on Arm-based microcontrollers, which today power billions of devices.
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R&D Stories: Speaker ID Technology
April 26, 2021 by Vikrant Singh Tomar

R&D Stories: Speaker ID Technology

As part of its focus on voice convergence, in its April 2021 edition, audioXpress featured a contributed article by the founder and CEO of Fluent.ai, describing how increasing consumer demand for personalized experiences has sparked the creation of the company’s speaker ID technology, and exploring the challenges that this type of technology still faces. A valuable perspective from a company positioned right at the edge of voice recognition using AI and edge processing. This article was originally published in audioXpress, April 2021.
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Cadence Extends Popular Tensilica Vision and AI DSP IP Product Line with New DSPs for Automotive, Mobile and Consumer Markets
April 26, 2021 by audioXpress Staff

Cadence Extends Popular Tensilica Vision and AI DSP IP Product Line with New DSPs for Automotive, Mobile and Consumer Markets

Cadence Design Systems expanded its popular Tensilica Vision DSP product family with the debut of two new DSP IP cores for demanding and always-on AI applications. The Tensilica Vision P1 DSP is optimized for always-on and smart sensor applications in the consumer market, providing an energy-efficient solution. Packing an industry-leading 3.8 tera operations per second (TOPS), the flagship Cadence Tensilica Vision Q8 DSP delivers 2X performance and memory bandwidth compared to the Tensilica Vision Q7 DSP.
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