Universal Electronics Teams Up with Sensory to Deliver Smart Home Digital Assistant Platform with Embedded Voice Control and Branded Assistant Experience
Jan 4, 2019
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By Fusing UEI’s Nevo® Butler Smart Home Hub (Powered by nevo.ai) with TrulyHandsfree Speech Recognition from Sensory, UEI’s Customers are Able to Create Powerful Voice-Enabled Digital Assistants that Feature Brand-Specific Wake Words and Cloud-Free Voice Control
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Nevo® Butler is an end-to-end voice-enabled smart home hub with built-in
white label digital assistant that unifies entertainment control and
home automation experiences, enabling interoperability across fragmented
ecosystems. Powered by QuickSet®
Cloud,
Available as kits that address specific channel needs,
“This exciting new platform integrates our latest QuickSet Cloud
services with our nevo.ai white label digital assistant platform, as
well as back-end enterprise integration services required for
large-scale IoT fleet management. This product gives our customers a
powerful platform to offer innovative and new voice-powered services to
consumers while they remain in charge of the consumer experience,” said
TrulyHandsfree is the most widely deployed embedded speech recognition
engine in the world, having enabled a hands-free voice user experience
on more than two billion devices from leading brands worldwide.
TrulyHandsfree offers support for every voice UI application with
several types of wake word options, such as independent fixed wake
words, user-enrolled fixed wake words, and user-defined wake words. UEI
and Sensory will provide customers the ability to create custom speaker
independent wake words for their
“TrulyHandsfree was purposefully engineered to offer extremely accurate
and noise robust wake word and speech recognition on devices with
ultra-low-power configurations to very high-performance components,”
said
Sensory’s TrulyHandsfree supports US English, UK English, Arabic, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. The TrulyHandsfree SDK is available for Android, iOS, Linux, QNX and Windows. Sensory provides developer support for cloud service interfaces on Linux, Android, iOS and Windows as well as support for dozens of proprietary DSPs, microcontrollers, smart microphones, and other low-power embedded devices.
Additionally, ultra-low-power deeply embedded ports of TrulyHandsfree
are available for leading DSP/MCU IP cores from ARM, Cadence, CEVA, NXP,
For more information about this announcement, or UEI, please visit www.uei.com, or contact info@uei.com. For more information about Sensory or its technologies, please visit www.sensory.com, or email sales@sensory.com.
About Sensory
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Source:
Sensory Contact:
Michael A. Farino
New Era
Communications
sensory@newerapr.com
(949)
346-1984
UEI Contact:
Benny Canady
Universal Electronics Inc.
bcanady@uei.com
714-918-9500