sensory, a silicon valley firm dedicated to enhancing user experience and security in consumer electronics, has revealed a strategic partnership with philips, a leader in advanced speech enhancement technology. this collaboration aims to integrate sensory's top-tier speech recognition solutions, trulyhandsfree™ and trulynatural™, with philips' beclear speech enhancement™ algorithms, promising substantial accuracy enhancements in noisy settings. by utilizing philips’ technologies for echo cancellation, noise suppression, and beam-forming prior to feeding the audio into sensory’s speech recognition system, the majority of unwanted background noise can be eliminated, preserving the essential speech components. this enhancement enables sensory's already robust speech recognition system to more accurately process both near- and far-field speech in environments with significant ambient noise.
Navin Natoewal, General Manager of Media Interaction at Philips, stated, “We've tested our BeClear Speech Enhancement algorithms alongside Sensory’s leading speech recognition engine and observed remarkable improvements in accuracy across a range of noise levels.” He further added, “With a growing demand from manufacturers to enhance product user experiences through effective hands-free interfaces in noisy conditions, we are thrilled to partner with Sensory. Together, we offer a comprehensive solution that combines the industry’s most precise embedded speech recognition with our effective BeClear Speech Enhancement suite, ensuring devices can accurately capture user commands even from a distance in the noisiest settings.”
The integration of Philips’ BeClear Speech Enhancement algorithms has demonstrably boosted the performance of Sensory’s TrulyHandsfree and TrulyNatural speech recognition technologies. This joint offering from Philips and Sensory targets a wide array of consumer electronics, including TVs, home theaters, mobile devices, digital assistants, IoT devices, smart homes, automotive systems, and beyond.
Bill Teasley, Vice President of Engineering at Sensory, commented, “While Sensory's speech recognition technology stands out for its robustness against noise, the addition of Philips' speech enhancement algorithms, a leader in the field, significantly boosts the accuracy and effectiveness of our solutions in noisy environments, such as mobile devices, automotive, and smart homes. This synergy greatly benefits the end-user experience.”
About Philips BeClear-
https://www.php.cn/link/9dfdb3a175a991c93bb89b6585f09036
BeClear Speech Enhancement
This suite of algorithms is designed for simultaneous voice communication and speech recognition for voice control applications. It is optimized for use with commercially available MCU and DSP platforms, allowing manufacturers to tailor the technology to specific hardware configurations. The suite is adaptable to any speech recognition engine without requiring knowledge of the engine’s pre-processing. It is fine-tuned for various applications, including smartphones, smartwatches, TVs, and IoT voice control, facilitating quicker integration into new use cases. All extensions are built on proven technology and include the following Audio Front End processing technologies:
- Super de-reverberation
- Multi-channel echo cancellation
- Fast tracking beamforming
- Dynamic noise suppression
- Far-end signal enhancement
