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SK Telecom and Conexant Use Far-Field Speech Recognition for First Smart Speaker in Korea

By Ken Briodagh October 12, 2016

In a release, Conexant Systems, a provider of audio and voice technology solutions, and SK Telecom, Korea’s largest mobile carrier, have announced that they will work together on implementing AudioSmart far-field voice solutions in the new NUGU smart speaker. This will make the Smart Home hub hear users’ requests accurately from at a distance. With this collaboration, NUGU voice will offer the highest voice recognition accuracy rate in Korea, the two companies said.

“When developing the NUGU personal digital assistant, our engineers focused heavily on ensuring it would provide an optimal voice-enabled user experience,” said Myung Soon Park, SVP, Future Technology R&D Center, SK Telecom. “When choosing a technology partner to help us achieve the level of speech recognition accuracy we wanted, Conexant was an obvious choice. Their technology allows our NUGU personal digital assistant to overcome distance and noise related challenges and offer ideal near- and far-field speech recognition performance, as well as enables users to interrupt and interact with the device when it's playing media.”

Enabling speech recognition and voice control from a distance in smart platforms requires overcoming the challenges of echo cancellation, background noise, microphone speaker position and several more. Conexant solutions separate voice commands from background noise so that the speech recognition engine hears the user's command as clearly as possible.

“As the voice-enabled revolution continues to shift the way people interact with devices of all types, reliance on speech enhancement technologies that help devices hear user commands more accurately will continue to grow,” said Saleel Awsare, President, Conexant. “Conexant has been a leading provider of voice processing solutions that improve speech recognition accuracy and enable advanced voice capabilities for years. We are pleased to be working with SKT to bolster the speech recognition performance of their NUGU smart speaker.”




Edited by Maurice Nagle
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