Renesas Electronics Corporation, a provider of advanced semiconductor solutions, and Cyberon Corporation, a provider of embedded voice solutions, announced that they have partnered to provide voice user interface (VUI) solutions for customers using the company's entire RA MCU lineup. Renesas.
Renesas RA customers will now have free access to Cyberon's continuous command-based VUI toolset, enabling them to add speech recognition to a variety of endpoint applications in home appliances, building automation, industrial automation, wearables and more.
Speech recognition is growing rapidly around the world, driven by the explosion of IoT applications and the COVID-19 pandemic. Cyberon's proven speech recognition technology has been adopted in millions of devices around the world.
“Customers across industries are looking for help to quickly add reliable voice commands to their products,” said Mohammed Dogar, vice president of Global Business Development and Ecosystem in the Infrastructure and IoT Business Unit at Renesas. “Our partnership with Cyberon gives them access to proven voice technology across our entire line of AR MCUs, from entry-level to full-featured devices.”
Renesas is providing a voice reference hardware platform to enable rapid prototyping and development of voice interfaces. The new hardware platform enables local voice recognition without a network connection using Cyberon's DSpotter solution. DSpotter's phoneme-based modeling approach enables rapid customization of commands with just text input, eliminating the need for massive voice data collection, thereby reducing development time and costs.
DSpotter supports more than 40 global languages, empowering customers to adopt voice technology in embedded applications around the world. This voice user interface (VUI) solution demonstrates how easy it is to control a system with a simple voice command interface, without extensive coding experience or in-house knowledge.
“We are honored to collaborate with Renesas to simplify the development of embedded speech recognition functions,” said Alex Liou, vice president of Cyberon's Embedded Solutions BU. “Cyberon’s DSpotter algorithm meets diverse market requirements in terms of costs and performance. The combination of DSpotter and Renesas’ leading MCU technology enables customers to develop high-performance, reliable and cost-effective products in a timely manner.”
Characteristics
- Free access to the DSpotter Toolchain
- Voice Activity Detection (VAD) to reduce power consumption by over 30%, enabling power-constrained IoT applications to run in always-on mode
- Voice Audio Playback (VAP) to enable voice input and voice responses
- Support for up to two digital microphones and two analog microphones
- External QSPI flash provides the ability to store voice samples and library data
- Multiple communication interfaces, including a Pmod interface (type 2A/3A/6A), USB type-C and micro-B, and integrated j-link Segger debugger/programmer