Audience Introduces NUE-Natural User Experience Inspired by Neuroscience

BARCELONA, SPAIN--(Marketwired - March 01, 2015) - Audience, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADNC), the leader in Advanced Voice and a pioneer in Multisensory processing and Natural User Experience (NUE) technology for consumer devices, today announced the first member of the NUE family of Multisensory processors -- the N100. NUE products are targeted at smartphones, tablets, wearables, and IoT devices, with the first N100 devices expected to be available for sampling mid-2015. NUE Multisensory technology is designed to derive intelligence about you and your environment from the exploding quantity sensor data available on modern devices -- enabling true contextual awareness -- so your device can provide insight and awareness in your daily life.

"We envision a world where people naturally interact with their devices, and in an enhanced way with the world around them, based on the insight and awareness that multisensory processing will provide. This vision is driving Audience's development of NUE technology, delivered in the form of Multisensory processors and software," said Peter Santos, President and CEO, Audience. "We designed NUE Multisensory technology to derive intelligence and context from sensor and microphone data about you and your environment, to deliver enhanced context that is useful and always-on, while preserving battery life."

About the NUE N100 Multisensory Processor
The N100 will be the first Audience product to enable a full-fledged Multisensory experience. It will incorporate Audience VoiceQ and MotionQ technology to enable applications with context awareness. Achieving context awareness involves layering sophisticated algorithms on top of the N100's sensory intelligence -- interpreting sensor and microphone data to deduce higher-level information. The N100 will be able to interpret context, such as, "the user is running," from a series of characteristic voice and motion features collected by the sensors.

VoiceQ Technology

VoiceQ is Audience's hands-free voice recognition technology that notifies the device to take action when a secure key word is spoken. The N100 VoiceQ implementation works in three stages. Using a low-power, Always-On voice activity detector, the N100 continuously listens for voice signals while staying in an ultra-low power mode. Upon voice detection, the incoming signal is compared to parameter-defined key phrases, or triggers. During these initial stages, only the N100 and digital microphone are awake. All other components in the device are in low-power sleep mode. When the key phrase is detected, the N100 wakes up the device, indicating the user's intent to talk with the device via a voice user interface. VoiceQ on the N100 is designed to support up to five keywords, which can be a combination of user-selected or OEM-chosen keywords.