CEVA, Inc. introduced WhisPro, a Neural Network based speech recognition technology targeting the rapidly growing use of voice as a primary human interface for intelligent cloud-based services and edge devices. Leveraging CEVA's vast expertize in low power voice and audio processing, WhisPro is an always-listening multi-trigger phrase technology allowing users of new smartphones, smart speakers, Bluetooth earbuds and other voice-enabled devices to interact with cloud-based voice assistant services, such as Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Baidu DuerOS and others. CEVA provides its customers with a trigger phrase customization service to enable voice control for a range of use cases and end markets, including automotive, smart home, and enterprise. CEVA will showcase WhisPro at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2019 in Las Vegas. WhisPro operates in tandem with CEVA's ClearVox front-end voice processing software technology and offers its customers a robust CEVA DSP-based hardware and software solution for speech recognition. This holistic integration of voice pre-processing and neural network algorithms delivers a high recognition rate of more than 95%, while consuming minimal computing resources and power. The technology shows resilience even in noisy environments in both near field and far field use-cases. WhisPro technology operates locally on the edge device, without the need for cloud back up, thereby maintaining user privacy and providing instantaneous response with minimal latency. Based on speech AI technology and optimized specifically for edge devices, WhisPro's scalable Recurrent Neural Network technology is capable of recognizing multiple trigger phrases, simultaneously. The WhisPro SDKit provides customers with guidelines and tools to integrate and test the WhisPro technology in their system. WhisPro supports multiple pronunciations of keywords and multiple languages, per customer request, with English available now and Mandarin Chinese available shortly. WhisPro is available for licensing, exclusively for CEVA-TeakLite-4, CEVA-X2 and CEVA-BX DSP customers, and is compliant with the main tier-1 voice assistant services.
Ceva, Inc. is a licensor of silicon and software intellectual property (IP) that enables smart edge devices to connect, sense and infer data. The Company powers the connectivity, sensing, and inference in advanced smart edge products across consumer Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, automotive, infrastructure, industrial, and personal computing. Its application software IP is licensed primarily to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) who embed it in their System on Chip (SoC) designs to enhance the user experience, and OEMs also license its hardware IP products and solutions for their SoC designs to create power-efficient, intelligent, secure, and connected devices. From Bluetooth connectivity, Wi-Fi, ultra-wide band (UWB) and fifth generation (5G) platform IP for communications, to scalable Edge AI neural processing unit (NPU) IPs, sensor fusion processors and embedded application software that make devices smarter, it has the portfolio of IP to connect, sense and infer data.
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