Knowles Releases New Broad Market Development Kit to Speed up Voice Integration for Bluetooth Devices - Seite 2

The opportunities for voice integration have extended from inside homes and buildings to mobile, automotive, wearable, and other accessory applications for on-the-go control. Sugr, a world-wide solution provider well known for its voice algorithm and integration capability has just completed the iOttie Aivo Connect integration with Knowles IA8201.

“Product time to launch is essential in current market competition. Voice User Interface development is even more difficult because it is analog and physical nature,” said Sean Song, CEO of Sugr. “The Knowles Industry Standard Solution streamlined traditional DSP development, integration and optimization. This framework enabled my team to develop SugrSense Bluetooth AMA module with IA8201 efficiently. The Knowles team’s deep expertise in audio makes our work together on projects such as the iOttie integration, virtually seamless.”

The AISonic Bluetooth Standard Solution also includes algorithms for an Audio Front End suitable for use with many voice assistants or cloud-based ASR APIs. The Knowles OpenDSP partner program allows for many algorithm developers to provide libraries for a Beam Former, omnidirectional voice capture, AEC to sort voice commands from background to meet the stringent false wake standard of AVS.

Retune DSP is part of the Knowles OpenDSP ecosystem and has ported its voice-control solutions, VoiceSpot and VoiceSeeker to the IA8201. VoiceSpot, Retune’s ultracompact wake word engine, enables voice-wake on memory-constrained, always-on, battery operated edge devices, and is Amazon-certified. VoiceSeeker is Retune’s multi-microphone audio front-end preprocessing solution capable for far-field voice control applications. Furthermore, Retune’s Conversa two-way voice communication software solution enables the IA8201 on a number of high-performance Bluetooth speakerphones and headphones.

“As voice control has grown over the past few years, we’ve worked closely together with Knowles to deliver our voice-first software solutions for a variety of devices. Knowles Bluetooth Standard Solution is another innovative approach to support the growing voice market and help a broad portfolio of device makers easily implement voice UX. With Retune DSP’s algorithms included, customers can move quickly to deploy a best-in-class voice experience,” said Chris Welsh, Partner at Retune DSP.