Smart Home Devices

Applications  / Smart Home Devices
Introduction
Block Diagram
Definitions
Benefits
Video
Additional Information
 
Introduction
 

Smart Home Devices can be used for many different applications such as assisting with daily tasks in the home and office.  Many of these applications will rely on far-field voice recognition technology. Therefore, the performance is dictated by the ability of the device to distinguish between the user’s voice, sound played by the device speaker (echo) and ambient noise.  Alango is focused on the critical link in this chain - where human meets machine.  Alango’s Voice Enhancement Package (VEP) dramatically improves the devices far-field voice pick-up through the implementation of software algorithms that utilize a microphone array to discriminate against noise and home in on the user’s voice.

 
Block Diagram

 

 
Definitions
 
N-Mic Beamformer A microphone array utilizing adaptive beamforming preserves the speech from ambient noises, enhances speech from specified directions and helps detecting the direction of voice commands.
Acoustic Echo Canceller (AEC) Eliminates acoustic echo from the loudspeaker to the microphones. Both mono and stereo acoustic echo cancellers are available.
Noise Suppressor (NS) Detects and attenuates stationary and transient noises.

 

Benefits
 

Flexible implementation of optimal voice pick up for voice trigger recognition, local (embedded ASR) or transmission to cloud for different environments and number of microphones.

Relatively low computational complexity.

Availability on all major MCU and DSP platforms.

 
Video

 

 
Blind Interference Cancellation (BIC) Technology
 
 
Direction of Arrival (DOA) Technology

 

 
Demonstration of a Voice Controlled Smart TV with 6-microphone Linear Array
 
 
Alango Far-Field Speech Recognition Enhancement Using a Linear Array

 

 
Alango VEP demo vs. Amazon Echo
 
 
 
Sound Processing in Smart Home Devices - the System Approach

 

 
Far-Field Speech Enhancement from Alango Technologies, Ltd.
 
   

 

Additional Information
 

Voice Enhancement Package

Adaptive Dual Microphone

Acoustic Echo Cancelling

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