Aug 3 2015
QuickLogic Corporation, the innovator of ultra-low power programmable sensor processing solutions, today announced that it is partnering with voice and vision technology industry leader Sensory Inc. to deliver TrulyHandsfree™ software the world's most advanced voice recognition solution, deeply embedded in its new EOS™ S3 sensor processing platform.
The hardened system blocks included in the EOS sensor processing SoC platform are designed to provide integrated voice trigger and command and control functionality at ultra-low power levels, enabling a vast array of voice-driven applications without the need for a connection to cloud services.
Integrated logic allows digital input from Pulse Density Modulation (PDM) as well as Inter-IC Sound (I2S) microphones, and provides PDM to Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) conversion for processing with Sensory's TrulyHandsfree software. Also hard coded is Sensory's Low Power Sound Detector (LPSD) technology, which allows the speech recognizer to be suspended while an ultra-low power sound detector is running and listening for what could be speech.
The integrated system supports a wide range of features including highly noise robust always-on, always-listening fixed triggers, enrolled fixed triggers, user defined triggers and passphrases, and up to 20 phrase spotted commands that can be accurately detected in silent to extremely noisy environments. Embedding functionality in hardware dramatically reduces power consumption, enabling always-on voice triggering at a draw of less than 350 microAmps.
"QuickLogic's new EOS sensor platform is groundbreaking, and we are excited to have enhanced its capabilities by providing our TrulyHandsfree voice control technology complemented by our ultra-low power sound detector in the form of an embedded block," said Bernard Brafman, vice president of business development at Sensory.
"Sensory is the industry leader in voice processing systems for mobile applications," said Dr. Frank A. Shemansky, Jr., senior director of product management at QuickLogic Corporation. "Integration of Sensory's TrulyHandsfree and LPSD technologies with the QuickLogic EOS sensor processing system provides unprecedented always-on voice capability, and will facilitate a new generation of voice-driven applications."
Sensory's TrulyHandsfree firmware and hardware low power sound detector (LPSD) are included in QuickLogic's advanced EOS sensor processing SoC, which incorporates a revolutionary architecture that enables the industry's most advanced and compute intensive sensor processing capability at a fraction of the power consumption of competing technologies.
Availability
Initial samples of the EOS platform with integrated voice processing will be available in September 2015. For more information, please visit www.quicklogic.com/EOS.
Source: http://www.quicklogic.com/