Add voice recognition/speech-to-text feature to your SOC design

Time is ripe for the keypad to say good-bye from your computers, mobile phones, consumer electronics systems. The natural interface such as touch-interface is already preferred over keyboard to interact with the computers. Spoken voice is even more a natural preference to interface with the electronic systems which includes car infotainment, mobile phones, computers, washing machines or any such machines/equipments, which human beings instruct. For the computer, consumer, wireless mobile devices the voice interface is becoming key differentiator for it to sell hot in the market. But for engineers, adding voice interface requires semiconductor ICs supporting that feature. To quickly integrate voice recognition feature in ICs, semiconductor chip designers looking for ready solutions rather than designing on their own. Handling natural interfaces requires higher and different processing power and enhancing hardware capabilities. This necessitates electronic product designers to have a processor with digital signal processing capabilities. SOC designers are looking for third party intellectual property in integrating DSP feature in their product designs. We noticed three companies providing IP for the audio/voice DSP supporting voice recognizing speech-to-text algorithms. 1. CEVA is offering IP package called CEVA-HD-Audio supporting voice recognition. CEVA is partner...