Sensory Introduces New Speech Recognition MicroController
Low-Cost RSC-464 Enables a New Class of Applications
Santa Clara, Calif. (PRWEB) August 30, 2005 -- Sensory, Inc., the world
leader in embedded speech technologies, today released the RSC-464 integrated
circuit as the latest member of the RSC-4x family.
It joins the
RSC-4128, one of the most widely deployed speech recognition ICs, in providing
speech recognition, synthesis and system control on a single chip.
By
balancing features required for everyday electronic devices with the costs
required to meet customer expectations for those products, the RSC-464 opens up
a new market for speech recognition control. The RSC-464 also comes to market
supported by a powerful suite of easy-to-use tools. “The RSC-464 is an
invitation to every manufacturer of electronics products to add speech to their
human interface”, notes Todd Mozer, Sensory's CEO. “If an electronic product has
a user interface, it can have a speech user interface added for very little
incremental cost, and the RSC-464 makes this practical.”
RSC-464 Supplies
General Control with Speech I/O
Sensory's RSC-464 integrated circuit
allows manufacturers to replace existing 8-bit microcontrollers with a
voice-enabled solution, which is becoming increasingly more popular as
recognition technologies become more accurate and pricing drops. The RSC-464 is
a powerful general-purpose microcontroller inside a speech recognition
system-on-chip that includes 16-bit ADC, DAC, digital filter unit, math unit, 4K
RAM, 64K ROM, output amplification, timers, comparators and more. Sensory's
aggressive pricing also invites its use as a slave for speech recognition, voice
biometrics, and speech and music playback. The slave approach makes it easy to
add to existing product designs with minimal changes to the primary controller
software. The RSC- 464 IC sells for under $1.10 in large volumes, making it a
strong option for use as a replacement for an existing microcontroller or as a
slave.
RSC-464 Implements New FluentChipTM 2.0 Technologies
A
variety of technologies in Sensory's world-class FluentChip firmware library run
on the RSC-464, including speaker independent (SI) recognition, speaker
dependent (SD) recognition, speaker verification (voice password) biometrics,
voice record, speech compression/playback and MIDI-like music synthesis. Just
released, FluentChip 2.0 offers new options for combining SI and SD in a single
command set, allowing for personalization that was never before possible. Also
available is a new technology that allows the RSC-464 to control mouth movements
of animated dolls so the movements appear naturally in time with speech.
Together, it is now possible to create a product that “understands” speech out
of the box, can be trained to recognize a particular person's voice, and also
generates movements that makes the product appear to be more natural and
lifelike.
Development Tools Enable Rapid International Vocabulary
Development
Sensory's Quick T2SITM(Text to Speaker Independent) Toolkit
complements the RSC-464 as it allows for rapid creation of speaker independent
command sets by simply typing in the desired recognition vocabulary as text. The
recognition set of words or phrases can then be downloaded onto the included
RSC-4x Demo/Evaluation Board for quick prototype creation and testing. This
process yields a proven recognition set in a matter of minutes. Using
state-of-the-art Hidden Markov Modeling combined with advanced neural networks,
the need for user training is eliminated. These recognition technologies are
derived from a database of sampled speech and are based on the rules of
phonology – the environment in which sounds occur in languages. This process
significantly accelerates adding new languages to Sensory's speaker independent
technologies. This unique approach is now available in U.S. English, German,
Italian, Latin American Spanish, Japanese, Korean, and Mandarin Chinese, with UK
English and French available later this year. Compressed speech is now available
in any language as well, so products can truly “talk and hear” around the
world.
Additional tools include Quick Synthesis, which allows fast
development of speech output files by recording and compressing a file with the
touch of a button, and also supports easy scoring of MIDI-like music. A
fully-integrated IDE for software development is provided by Phyton, Inc.,
including assembler, linker, debugger and file management, as well as an
optional C compiler to accelerate coding.
About Phyton:
Phyton has
over 15 years of experience in designing and supplying high-performance
development tools for embedded microcontrollers used by electronic engineers and
programmers in the industrial control, communications, and computer and consumer
electronic industries. Phyton's development tools support the 8- and 16-bit
embedded microcontrollers of semiconductor industry leaders. Phyton's address is
7206 Bay Parkway, 2nd Floor, Brooklyn, N.Y. 11204, and on the web at www.phyton.com.
About
Sensory, Inc.:
Sensory, Inc. is the world leader in embedded speech
technologies. Sensory offers a complete line of IC and software-only solutions
for speech recognition, speech & music synthesis, speaker verification and
other voice and audio technologies. Sensory's customers are leaders in consumer
electronics and include Avon, Fisher-Price, Hasbro, JVC, Kenwood, Matsushita,
Mattel, MGA, Mitsubishi, Radica, Sega, Sharper Image, Sony, Tektronix, Toshiba,
Uniden, and many others. The Interactive Speech™ line of low-cost ICs includes
the award-winning RSC Series (general-purpose microcontrollers using FluentChip
technology for speech I/O), SC Series (music and speech synthesis) and the SVC
voice biometric chips. Sensory's FluentSoft embedded software products are
available on a range of hardware platforms from microcontrollers to DSPs.
Sensory, Inc. is located at 1991 Russell Avenue, Santa Clara, CA 95054-2035. The
company can be found on the web at www.sensoryinc.com.
Editorial Contacts
Sensory,
Inc.
Tom Tolbert
408/240-1577
KPR, Inc.
David Kaye or Roni Kaye
818/368-8212
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