TelecomTV TelecomTV
  • News
  • Videos
  • Channels
  • Events
  • Network Partners
  • Industry Insights
  • Directory
  • Newsletters
  • Open RAN
  • Digital Platforms and Services
  • 5G
  • Access Evolution
  • Private Networks
  • Cloud Native
  • Edge
  • Open Networking
  • Sustainability
  • AI, Analytics and Automation
  • 6G Research and Innovation
  • Security
  • More Topics
  • Network Partners
  • Industry Insights
  • Directory
  • Newsletters
  • |
  • About
  • Contact
  • |
  • Connect with us
  • 5G
  • 6G Research and Innovation
  • Access Evolution
  • AI, Analytics and Automation
  • Cloud Native
  • Digital Platforms and Services
  • Edge
  • Open Networking
  • Open RAN
  • Private Networks
  • Security
  • Sustainability
  • Connect with TelecomTV
  • About
  • Privacy
  • Help
  • Contact
  • Sign In Register Subscribe
    • Subscribe
    • Sign In
    • Register
  • Search

Internet of Things

Internet of Things

Intel and Amazon give voice to smart homes of the future

Via Intel Newsroom

Oct 20, 2017

New Intel Voice Enablement Developer Kit Makes It Easier Than Ever to Create Products Integrated with the Amazon Alexa Voice Service

ir_image_10

By Miles Kingston

Recent advancements in artificial intelligence, machine learning and natural language processing are beginning to bring the full potential of smart homes into focus. As these technologies continue to learn and improve, many of the tasks of running the home will eventually be automated to provide peace of mind and enrich daily life. In fact, a recent Intel survey revealed 68 percent of Americans agreed that living in a home with smart devices would make their lives easier.1

Consumers are beginning to show an increasing readiness to welcome speech in the smart home. Look at smart speakers and personal assistants: This year, 35.6 million Americans will use a voice-activated smart home device at least once per month, eMarketer estimates – a 128.9 percent increase over 2016.

Intel, in collaboration with the Amazon Alexa Voice Service* (AVS), is making it easier for third-party developers to accelerate the design of consumer products featuring AVS. Today, Intel announces the Intel® Speech Enabling Developer Kit, which provides a complete audio front-end solution for far-field voice control.

Speech recognition has become a clear competitive advantage to product developers. Yet, giving machines the ability to listen, speak and converse in natural language is no easy feat.

MORE: Build Innovative Solutions for a Smart Home (Intel.com) | Pre-Order a Developer Kit (Intel.com) | Workshops: re:Invent 2017, Future Amazon Events | Glossary: Teaching Devices to Talk

Natural language means machines need to clearly recognize and respond to user commands from a reasonable conversation distance. People speak and hear in 360 degrees, not just in a direct line of sight. Devices need array microphones and complex noise mitigation technology. A quality voice interaction means devices identify the speaker’s location, mitigate and suppress ambient noise, and understand spoken commands on the mics, even while playing music (talking and listening at the same time), as well as waking up when it hears the wake word (e.g. “Alexa”).

There’s a lot of engineering involved in getting speech recognition at high degrees of speed and accuracy to deliver the best customer experiences. The Intel Speech Enabling Developer Kit is based on a new architecture that delivers high-quality far-field voice even in the most acoustically challenging environments. This marks the latest in a string of smart home innovations, including the Intel-powered Amazon Echo Show*.

The Intel® Speech Enabling Developer Kit will be available for pre-order now. Among the developer kit’s technology components:

  • High-performance algorithms for acoustic echo cancellation, noise reduction, beamforming and custom wake word engine tuned to “Alexa”
  • Intel’s dual DSP with inference engine
  • Intel 8-mic circular array

With increasing speed, the innovations needed to power the future are within reach. In the smart home, we can all look forward to a wave of innovation from the developer community as we transition from being simply connected to being truly smart.

Miles Kingston is the general manager of the Smart Home Group at Intel Corporation.

Related Topics
  • 6G R&I,
  • AI & ML,
  • Announcement,
  • Devices,
  • Intel,
  • Internet of Things,
  • News,
  • North America,
  • Smart Homes,
  • Tracker

More Like This

Access Evolution

Mobile services market grew in first quarter at fastest pace since 2010: Omdia

Jun 22, 2022

Access Evolution

Viasat Receives Stockholder Approval for Proposed Acquisition of Inmarsat

Jun 22, 2022

Access Evolution

LoRaWAN Leads Global, At-Scale LPWAN Deployments Across All Metrics

Jun 21, 2022

5G

Ericsson Mobility Report: 5G to top one billion subscriptions in 2022 and 4.4 billion in 2027

Jun 21, 2022

Private Networks

Singtel spies ‘metaverse for manufacturing’ opportunity with latest private network deal

Jun 17, 2022

This content extract was originally sourced from an external website (Intel Newsroom) and is the copyright of the external website owner. TelecomTV is not responsible for the content of external websites. Legal Notices

Email Newsletters

Stay up to date with the latest industry developments: sign up to receive TelecomTV's top news and videos plus exclusive subscriber-only content direct to your inbox – including our daily news briefing and weekly wrap.

Subscribe

Top Picks

Highlights of our content from across TelecomTV today

10:14

Executive Interview: Vodafone’s Lucia De Miguel Albertos on the ultimate RAN Intelligent Controller

39:34

Figuring out the TCO of Open RAN

6:47

Dell's Role in Open RAN

4:24

Executive Interview: Neil McRae on BT's Open RAN Plans

TelecomTV
Company
  • About Us
  • Media Kit
  • Contact Us
Our Brands
  • DSP Leaders World Forum
  • Great Telco Debate
  • TelecomTV Events
Get In Touch
[email protected]
+44 (0) 207 448 1070
Connect With Us
  • Privacy
  • Cookies
  • Terms of Use
  • Legal Notices
  • Help

TelecomTV is produced by the team at Decisive Media.

© Decisive Media Limited 2022. All rights reserved. All brands and products are the trademarks of their respective holder(s).