XMOS Improving voice control on embedded systems through partnership

Voice interface and recognition is becoming important for microcontroller chips to support voice controlled IoT devices or any such devices which need to be instructed through voice commands. The microcontroller chip vendor XMOS is offering support in its chips for processing voice by partnering with companies who have expertise in speech recognition/voice processing. XMOS is partnering with a company called Setem technologies to improve speech recognition from far fields. "Combining powerful XMOS multicore processors with Setem's far-field pre-processing technology will create an embedded voice solution that improves the quality of far-field speech recognition and communications," said Jochen Meissner, CEO of Setem Technologies. "For OEMs, our joint solution will shorten the time-to-market for IoT products that require precise voice control." Setem uses its own platform called 3S pre-processing for improving the speech recognition for far field voices. This feature enables appliances such as smart-home, connected car and Internet Of Things applications can be voice controlled from far away. "Setem's signal separating technology adds the precision of voice localization to XMOS, which is essential in far-field applications," said Mark Lippett, CEO of XMOS. "Our product development and marketing teams are working together to create a best-in-class voice solution tha...