Spansion pushed the first man-machine interface coprocessor to accelerate speech development

Embedded flash market-leading innovator Spansion Inc. today announced the launch of Spansion ® voice coprocessor, which is the industry's first to support voice control system interface man-machine interface (HMI) coprocessor. With NuanceCommunications the company's speech technology, which the new product is ideal for cars, games and consumer electronics, voice recognition system. In addition, the product supports a greater voice database, compared with conventional voice interface can significantly improve response time and accuracy. Spansion voice coprocessor custom logic and high-speed memory, accelerate and optimize the voice control, man-machine interface, but can also eliminate the work load of the conventional CPU in the processing of voice data.

    With the continuous improvement of electronic components, degree of intelligence and ability to interact, voice, image and gesture human-computer interface have to meet consumer demand for faster and more interactive access to information the way the demand. At present, the user interface depends on the general-purpose hardware and software. The Spansion voice co-processor is the first specific application of products, it custom logic and hardware with Nuance's VoCon ® software engine is a perfect combination to provide a dedicated resource for natural user interfaces such as the voice of the class.

Executive vice president and general manager of Nuance's Mobile Division MichaelThompson: Spansion to the unique integration of Nuance's technology, an extremely powerful platform for vehicle manufacturers to provide specialized coprocessor Interactive Voice Response extremely fast more natural, and even more accurate. "

    The Spansion strategic alliances and business development, senior vice president AliPourkeramati said: "With the growing popularity of the man-machine interaction, the market demand for more natural user interface, while the voice is at the forefront of our new voice co-processor further consolidate our strategy to provide value-added system capacity, and promote the client product differentiation process, and promote the mass adoption of the interconnection of smart devices. "With our leading edge in the field of automotive and embedded memory, we designed a new platform, it can quickly read and analyze the data, allowing users to experience a new level. "

    StrategyAnalytics automotive consumer research director ChrisSchreiner said: advances in speech recognition technology to shorten the distance between us with the natural language understanding, on the automotive market is critical. More and more car manufacturers have begun in the car load the voice recognition interface used to manage mobile connections, while improving driving safety factor. accuracy and latency of the improvements, like the innovative technology of the Spansion voice coprocessor, can give consumers tremendous convenience, and to change our cars interactive way. "

    Xu Zhenyu, StrategyAnalytics China, Director of Automotive Research, said: "By 2012, with the voice of man-machine interface provided by the original equipment manufacturers infotainment and vehicle information communication system of the shipments will reach 300 million units, and is expected in 2018 reach 20 million units. development companies such as speech recognition solutions such as the Spansion voice coprocessor, is bound to stimulate market acceptance and to strengthen consumer satisfaction. "

    Spansion voice coprocessor take full advantage of a the Spansion proven technology, and its immediate response in a variety of embedded applications, the leading edge of the high reliability and performance. The benchmark test results showed that compared with using only a typical applications processor system, using the Spansion voice coprocessor makes the system response is improved by 50%. The load on the application processor can be reduced up to 50%, so that it can make room for other tasks. In addition, Spansion voice coprocessor can support a greater voice database (including multi-language, voice gender, and tone of voice), to improve the accuracy and the promotion of natural language understanding.

    Senior analyst of IDC's semiconductor MichaelPalma added: "In today's computing devices, CPU need to be addressed from a high-speed Internet access, high-definition video to 3D navigation and voice recognition, almost all tasks, the results of processing power and memory bandwidth bottlenecks using application-specific coprocessor to handle voice ratings task, the speech recognition system can greatly improve the response capacity and delay performance, free up more processing power for the CPU to focus on other resource-intensive applications, resulting in overall create a better user experience. "

    Spansion technology, the first application in the automotive market. In the market, voice provides a safer, smarter driving connection technology, to minimize the visual handheld devices - manual interference. The The Spansion demo platform integration Spansion's technology and Nuance's speech recognition software, currently a number of large car manufacturers being evaluated in the third quarter will begin to provide design samples.