CEVA's WhisPro™ speech recognition and control
software is now available for TI's CC3235x family, bringing
ultra-low power, robust voice user interface to IoT
endpoints
ROCKVILLE, Md., Nov. 15,
2022 /PRNewswire/ -- CEVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: CEVA),
the leading licensor of wireless connectivity and smart sensing
technologies and co-creation solutions, announced today the
availability of its WhisPro™ speech recognition and control
software to support designs using the Texas Instruments (TI)
SimpleLink™ Wi-Fi® CC3235x wireless MCU family. The WhisPro
Software Development Kit (SDK) allows full customization to the
customer's choice of wake words and voice commands, and runs
entirely on-device, without the need for a network connection.
Voice User Interface (VUI) has rapidly become a primary
interface for many IoT applications, providing an intuitive,
hands-free interface for individuals to interact and control
wearables and endpoint devices in the smart home, smart appliances,
industrial/manufacturing, automotive, medical and more. According
to Mordor Intelligence, the voice recognition market is expected to
grow at a CAGR of 16.8% from 2021 to 2026, reaching USD
$27.2 billion by 2026.
Through this collaboration with TI, engineers using the CC3235x
wireless MCU can quickly and easily add speech recognition
capabilities to IoT devices using the WhisPro SDK, such as wake
words and speech commands. WhisPro can support multiple wake words
in parallel, including standard AI assistants (such as Alexa) and
custom wake words, in various languages. In terms of custom
commands for voice control of the device, WhisPro can support up to
30 tailored commands to meet the unique needs of a product's use
case, and the model can require as little as 50KB, determined by
the compute resources and accuracy tradeoffs. The WhisPro engine
available for TI's CC3235x is optimized for the Arm® Cortex®-M4
processor, offering extremely low latency and consuming absolute
minimal power.
Naomi Heller, manager of Wi-Fi
connectivity products at TI, commented: "Across the entire IoT
landscape, voice control is becoming a must-have feature for many
devices and applications, from wearables to white goods. Our
collaboration with CEVA ensures engineers using our proven and
reliable SimpleLink Wi-Fi wireless MCUs have access to a voice user
interface to address these exciting use cases."
Chad Lucien, Vice President and
General Manager of the Sensing and Audio Business Unit at CEVA,
stated: "We're delighted to announce our work with Texas
Instruments, a powerhouse in the semiconductor industry, to make
our WhisPro speech recognition software available for its wireless
MCU family. With exceptional performance and the capability to
customize the model to each customer's requirements, the hardware
offering from TI when paired with our software will enable our
mutual customers to deliver high performance, cost-efficient
solutions for voice-enabled IoT endpoints and devices."
For more information about CEVA WhisPro SDK for the TI
SimpleLink Wi-Fi family, visit
https://www.ceva-dsp.com/product/ceva-whispro/. To request a
Software Evaluation Kit, please contact sales@ceva-dsp.com.
About CEVA, Inc.
CEVA is the leading licensor of wireless connectivity and smart
sensing technologies and co-creation solutions for a smarter,
safer, connected world. We provide Digital Signal Processors, AI
engines, wireless platforms, cryptography cores and complementary
software for sensor fusion, image enhancement, computer vision,
voice input and artificial intelligence. These technologies are
offered in combination with our Intrinsix IP integration services,
helping our customers address their most complex and time-critical
integrated circuit design projects. Leveraging our technologies and
chip design skills, many of the world's leading semiconductors,
system companies and OEMs create power-efficient, intelligent,
secure and connected devices for a range of end markets, including
mobile, consumer, automotive, robotics, industrial, aerospace &
defense and IoT.
Our DSP-based solutions include platforms for 5G baseband
processing in mobile, IoT and infrastructure, advanced imaging and
computer vision for any camera-enabled device, audio/voice/speech
and ultra-low-power always-on/sensing applications for multiple IoT
markets. For sensor fusion, our Hillcrest
Labs sensor processing technologies provide a broad range of
sensor fusion software and inertial measurement unit ("IMU")
solutions for markets including hearables, wearables, AR/VR, PC,
robotics, remote controls and IoT. For wireless IoT, our platforms
for Bluetooth (low energy and dual mode), Wi-Fi 4/5/6
(802.11n/ac/ax), Ultra-wideband (UWB), NB-IoT and GNSS are the most
broadly licensed connectivity platforms in the industry.
Visit us at www.ceva-dsp.com and follow us on Twitter, YouTube,
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