Synaptics Incorporated Announces Its Audiosmart Far-Field Voice DSPs Have Been Selected by Harman International for the Harman/Kardon Allure and Allure Portable Voice-Activated Smart Speaker Family
January 09, 2018 at 01:00 pm
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Synaptics Incorporated announced its AudioSmart far-field voice DSPs have been selected by HARMAN International for the Harman/Kardon Allure (4-mic) and Allure Portable (2-mic) voice-activated smart speaker family. The Allure devices feature Amazon’s intelligent Alexa Voice Service and utilize Synaptics’ highly-responsive AudioSmart solution to activate Alexa – even while playing premium 360-degree high-fidelity music and/or when users are several meters away from the device. The Synaptics AudioSmart solution separates speech signals from background noises, such as sounds from a television, and processes only the human speech for exceptional recognition accuracy. AudioSmart delivers a best-in-class end-user experience for all major Automated Speech Recognition services like Alexa. This voice barge-in technology is enabled by full duplex acoustic echo cancellation that detects the wake-word and allows the device to hear user requests even when music is playing. AudioSmart is also enhanced with Smart Source Locator technology that identifies the direction of the incoming voice. Synaptics’ far-field voice DSPs are very low-power – essential to the battery-powered Allure Portable – enabling portable devices to stay on and “always listening” for user commands, even during music playback.
Synaptics Incorporated is a developer and fabless supplier of mixed signal semiconductor solutions. The Company delivers complete chip, firmware and software semiconductor solutions that allow its customers to integrate advanced functions into their end products. It serves Internet of things (IoT), personal computer and mobile markets. Its IoT market solutions consist of wireless connectivity (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and global positioning system, or GPS) products, System-on Chip (SoC), products, display and touch-integrated circuits for use in automobiles, and a range of audio and video products and solutions. It provides custom and semi-custom product solutions for navigation, cursor control, and access to devices or applications through fingerprint authentication, and human presence detection solutions, for many of the PC OEMs. Its mobile product applications include smartphones, tablets, large touchscreen applications, as well as a variety of mobile, handheld, and entertainment devices.
Synaptics Incorporated Announces Its Audiosmart Far-Field Voice DSPs Have Been Selected by Harman International for the Harman/Kardon Allure and Allure Portable Voice-Activated Smart Speaker Family