Product category: Embedded Software and Operating Systems
News Release from: ART, Advanced Recognition Technologies | Subject: Smartspeak XG
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 8 November 2004
Voice interface to recognise Chinese
Spreadtrum Communications has selected the Smartspeak XG embedded speech interface for its SC6600 family of GSM/GPRS baseband chipsets
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Spreadtrum is a major fabless semiconductor developer for wireless communications based in China and the USA. The new integrated technology marks the first technical association between Spreadtrum and ART and it is the first time that speech recognition has been added to any Spreadtrum chipsets.
ART's Smartspeak XG voice interface is designed to recognise the Mandarin Chinese language which is spoken by over 1 billion people.
"With more than 300 million cellphone users, China has become the largest cellphone market in the world", said Yakov Shulman, acting CEO for ART, "and Spreadtrum’s innovative IC designs are fast making it one of the world’s leading fabless semiconductor companies".
"We are proud to partner with Spreadtrum and we see an enormous potential to bring speech recognition to this large and important new market".
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ART’s latest voice interface will be added to Spreadtrum’s most advanced family of GSM/GPRS baseband chips.
The SC6600 is a compact single baseband chip solution for GSM/GPRS wireless phones, combining all digital, analogue and power management functionalities in a 0.18um mixed signal, using 1.8V CMOS technology.
In addition to its new speaker-independent voice interface, the SC6600 also features fully validated hardware and software reference designs for reduced time to market, a high level of integration for reduced parts count and lower final product cost, and reduced power consumption to enhance battery life.
The new Smartspeak XG features the industry’s most advanced name-dialling technology for wireless phones and mobile devices.
ART's Smartspeak technology introduced the industry to speaker-independent name-dialling.
The Smartspeak XG is fully speaker independent, meaning it can be operated by any user with no voice training of the device.
It also adds a new voice feedback capability that gives users audio confirmation of spoken names, numbers, and other commands.
This is done by “reading” from the phone's 500-name contact list using advanced text-to-speech technology.
"By adding Smartspeak XG to our SC6600 chipsets, we can continue to offer our customers the most advanced GSM/GPRS solution available”, said Dr Ping Wu, President and CEO of Spreadtrum.
"ART’s advanced architecture is well suited to our fully validated chip designs enabling customers to quickly develop new products and hasten their time to market”.
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