Use Case:
Voice Recognition for Home Appliances & Electrical Devices
Description
Home Appliances and Electrical Devices of all sorts can provide users significant additional benefits by supporting voice control for those times when touch control is not convenient.
Challenges
- Potentially obstructed voice path
- Stationary (architectural columns)
- Mobile (other people, cabinet doors, appliance doors) obstructions in voice path.
- Distance
- Typical distances in Kitchen and other living areas could be 3 to 4 meters or more
- Noise suppression
- Constant – exhaust fan, dishwasher, microwave or convection oven fan, etc.
- Variable – other persons’ speech, vacuum, ceiling fan noises, TV speech, and other audible devices, etc.
- Development
- Challenging cost targets
- Aggressive schedule
- Avoid a complete board spin
Solution Proposed
- ArkX Technology
- Works extremely well even in obstructed voice path
- Captures voice from up to 9 meters in very noisy environments
- Features solder-on “module” allowing easy integration onto existing board
- Utilizes 12 AEC’s to ID, classify and suppress speech originating from TV, audio devices and other extraneous environmental noises
- Amazon pre-qualified module speeds time to market and reduces development risk
Far-field Voice Applications
Our voice capture technology can easily be applied to a wide range of voice-enabled smart products and devices.