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   Bragi's next move is to tackle tinnitus and enhance user hearing
   CES 2018: New features for people who need it the most
   
   Monday
   January 8, 2018
   By Hugh Langley
   @hughlangley
   There's a huge opportunity for hearable makers to go beyond augmented sound and tricks like real-time translation, and actually improve the quality of life for people with hearing difficulties. It's what Doppler was trying to do before it came apart, and now Bragi is doing it with Project Ears.
   
   Project Ears, which it announced at CES 2018, isn't a new device - yet. Rather, it's a partnership with Mimi Hearing Technologies that will work on hearing enhancements for users.
   
   CES 2018: Latest news and launches from the Consumer Electronics Show
   
   One area Bragi wants to tackle in particular is tinnitus. CEO Nikolaj Hviid said this landed on Bragi's radar after it discovered some people were modifying the Dash for tinnitus relief. 
   
   This is real life S Johnson's Adjacent Possible at work?
   
   You bet it is. And very neat to see it happen real time.
   
   
   
   Now it wants to offer an FDA-approved solution, which is what Project Ears will try to achieve.
   
   We saw Bragi signal a move in this direction when it partnered with Starkey Hearing Technologies for a custom-fit version of the Dash Pro. Bragi tells Wareable that it's working towards a device with Project Ears technology, but has made no commitment on whether this will actually come to market.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   At the very least, it sounds like Bragi will create some sort of new software that could make its way to its existing devices. Bragi says Project Ears will have a hearing test that will let users create a unique "Earprint", which will then give user's personalized audio for different environments.
   
   But Bragi itself says this is an "open-ended" project and it's not clear yet what the final result will be. Other options could be protecting your ears from loud noises or, like the Doppler Here One, offering intelligent sound filters. One thing that is definite, says Bragi, is that it will bring Mimi's personalization software to existing Dash devices for music enhancement.
   
   But there's an open goal here for Bragi and other hearable companies. Before its demise, Doppler Labs worked with Senator Warren to push through the Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Act of 2017 - a bill that received rare bipartisan support - which will allow stores to sell hearing aids. Signed by the president, it's now in a gestation period with the FDA which must create (and regulate) this new category of over-the-counter hearing aids to meet a certain level of quality and safety.
   
   This will open the door for companies like Bragi to market their hearables as hearing aids, and it sounds like Bragi has every intention to take advantage of the opportunity.
   

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   “When we introduced The Dash in 2015, one of the unexpected pieces of feedback was a group of consumers using the device’s internal storage to treat tinnitus through white noise” said Bragi Founder & CEO Nikolaj Hviid. “This led us down the path to review and develop capabilities of our in-ear computing technologies to potentially offer hearing enhancement services.”
   
   
   QUIK, your Eos would be a good fit for a company like Bragi?
   and they have found nice things to move toward.
   
   
   Thanks in advance.

INSIDE THE LAB WHERE AMAZON'S ALEXA TAKES OVER THE WORLD



WHEN IT FIRST launched in 2014, Amazon's Alexa voice assistant was little more than an experiment. It appeared first inside the Echo, itself a wacky gadget launched without warning or much expectation. As it took off, though, and millions of people began to put a smart speaker in their home, Amazon's ambition exploded. The company saw an opportunity to build a new voice-first computing platform that worked everywhere, all the time, no matter what you were doing. And it began to chase that vision at full speed.

While one team at Amazon works on the Echo products themselves—including the Echo Spot, Show, Dot, Plus, and probably a bunch more since you started reading this sentence—and another works on the Alexa service itself, a different team is working on engineering Alexa's world takeover. While Apple and Google offer access to their assistants slowly and methodically, Amazon has flung the doors off their hinges and let anyone in. The company knows the path to success is not just in Echo devices, and that Amazon can't possibly make every gadget anyone wants to use. So they've created a new division called Alexa Voice Services, which builds hardware and software with the aim of making it stupendously easy to add Alexa into whatever ceiling fan, lightbulb, refrigerator, or car someone might be working on. "You should be able to talk to Alexa no matter where you're located or what device you're talking to," says Priya Abani, Amazon's director of AVS enablement. "We basically envision a world where Alexa is everywhere."

The word "everywhere" has taken on a whole new meaning in the last few years. Thanks to decades of improvements in processor efficiency, bandwidth accessibility, and the incredible availability of cheap electronics, almost anything can be connected to the internet. Cars and trucks and bicycles, sure; all your home appliances, switches, bulbs, and fixtures; even your clothes, shoes, and jewelry. They're all coming online, and Amazon wants Alexa in all of them.


One of Amazon's Alexa development kits, which manufacturers can buy to construct their own voice-controlled products.
AMAZON
So far, Amazon says it has about 50 different third-party Alexa devices on the market, devices like the Ecobee Thermostat and Anker's Eufy Genie. The AVS team spent the last two years building the systems and tools to take that to a new level, with the hopes of having hundreds and thousands of Alexa devices on shelves sooner rather than later. The battle for voice-assistant supremacy rages on among the tech giants, the stakes higher than ever as companies attempt to be the one on the other side of the wake word. To win, Amazon's assembling an army.


Plug and Play
When Abani joined Amazon in 2016, she found herself having the same conversations over and over: everybody wanted to add voice to their product, but nobody knew how. "The first four months, all I was doing was sitting with our biz-dev team in god knows how many meetings," she says. These were thermostat companies, who knew temperature control but not voice recognition. They were lighting companies who knew how to optimize LEDs but not how to set up a mic array. Amazon had already been through all this in building the Echo, Abani says, "and I took on the job of understanding all the different components required to add voice to your product, then packaging them and disseminating them to the world." They built kits with all the parts you'd need to get started, packaged the right software with easy documentation, and even worked with chipmakers like Intel to build Alexa support right into the CPU.

Now, two years later, if you want to Alexa-enable your product, you just go shopping. Amazon offers seven different development kits for a few hundred dollars apiece, each with a specific product type in mind. The first one Amazon built had two mics in a line; a new one has seven laid out in a ring exactly like the Echo. "It's the same mic array, the same technology in terms of the algorithms and wake word engine," says Al Woo, a product manager on the AVS team, holding up the Echo-like kit. "If a company wants to develop a product that matches as closely as possible to the performance and function of an Echo device, this is how." The gizmo in his hand has a fully exposed motherboard and wires dangling everywhere, but Alexa's already up and running. With it, developers can have a demo-ready Alexa integration in just half an hour.

With each development kit, Amazon provides instructions on which microphones and processors to buy along with it. The kit helps developers start prototyping and testing devices much more quickly, without needing to hire a bunch of voice-recognition experts or test a thousand different mics. As much as it can, Amazon wants to make voice a plug-and-play hardware add to almost any device. Anyone should be able to buy a kit, build a product, download the Alexa software, and get everything running without any prior knowledge or any help from Amazon. Amazon might not even know the product exists until it hits shelves.


The Sol lamp, made by a division of GE, is a smart LED lamp with the Alexa voice assistant built in.
C BY GE
Right now, though, voice tech is early enough that Amazon tends to be intimately involved in most products using AVS. For now, that's OK: Amazon's still learning too. It works with partners like Sonos to figure out how to optimize Alexa's music abilities, then offers the results to all partners going forward. The AVS team is also working on making Alexa available to completely new classes of devices, too, through products like the new Alexa Mobile Accessories Kit. With the AMAK, Bluetooth accessories like headphones and smartwatches can connect to Alexa through a smartphone. Alexa's also about to be available on PCs around the world, with the same far-field voice recognition as an Echo. All the necessary software and info to get started is right there on Amazon's website.


Amazon's other job, at least for now, is to make sure Alexa's great on every device. Even with all the development kits and software, other manufacturers still make so many tweaks and adaptations that Amazon feels the need to take a final step to make sure the Alexa experience works across any device. The team knows that when people have a bad Alexa experience, they won't blame poor mic layouts or bad audio transparency. They'll blame Alexa. "We want to make sure it doesn't come into the review whether Alexa works good or not," says Pete Thompson, Amazon's vice president for AVS. "It just slides in, and works."

Is This Thing On?
Alexa performance is where JR comes in. JR stands for Junior Rover, and refers to the custom-built robot in charge of testing third-party devices to make sure Alexa works right. It's a small, whirring machine, with an orange base, four wheels, and a platform on top that can hold up to 50 pounds and extend up to six feet up. A Microsoft Surface powers the device from a four-pronged stand on one side. The Surface's wallpaper features a cartoon drawing of JR, big eyes and eyebrows and sort of a 2018 Thomas the Tank Engine look.

JR's office is a windowless, soundproofed room inside the Sunnyvale offices of Lab126, Amazon's hardware group. This is where a team built the Echo, and where the AVS team tries to spread Alexa to the world. The building itself is as office-parky as you'll find anywhere in Silicon Valley, more like a building in which you'd find a law office next to a dentist next to a massage parlor. Well, except for all the security guards and Amazon swag.

When an upcoming Alexa-enabled device comes to Amazon, it goes to Sunnyvale and then straight into JR's lab. Someone sets it up on a table in the lab, and JR begins chatting with it. The robot moves around a track of magnetic tape on the floor, stopping in the same spots every time around. At every stop, a speaker on JR's platform issues a command or two: Alexa, what's the capital of Jamaica? Alexa, who wrote The Canterbury Tales? It speaks in any of 22 different voices, loudly or softly, in lots of languages and accents. Sometimes, a MacBook across the room will play white noise on another speaker to simulate the sound of a lively kitchen, to see how the device performs. Every question and answer gets recorded and scored, and when the test finishes Amazon delivers the feedback to the manufacturer. It's a broad, deep test of how the device might work in someone's house.

An Amazon employee used to run all these tests, painstakingly setting up and recording every interaction. Each device would take three days or more to properly test. JR runs day and night, seven days a week, with no bathroom breaks or sick days, and can complete a test in six hours. Amazon's working on building more robots like JR, and new testing facilities for in-car Alexa and all the other kinds of devices they haven't even thought of yet.

Along every wall of the testing lab, the AVS team has laid out some of the current Alexa-enabled products. Speakers next to speakers next to speakers next to unreleased speakers I can't tell you about yet. A thermostat. A fancy light. A Lynx robot, sitting with its legs dangling in the air. Standing in the room, you're surrounded by Alexa. And that's just the very beginning. Amazon hopes to make Alexa work well, make it work everywhere, and make it the most important and intimate computer in your life. If that means helping a refrigerator manufacturer compete with the Echo, so be it. As long as there's Alexa in there, Amazon still wins.


Hey QUIK, AMZN has seven kits for product segments for Alexa...

You deserve to have 2 of those...

Ear

n

IoT one version.....


thanks in advance.


Apple- no speaker even yet? That's really BAD!

GOOG- you bought Nest. this should b u, but its not...


Samsung-where are you?

Baidu

TenCent


Facebook=All I read about is the virtual reality stuff, and this 50 floor up Baggage stuff of thought reading....You really,really need Voice or u will miss the boat.

on n on

Senory, 

Enjoy all the limelight.

You have earned it...20 yrs and now an overnight success






CES 2018 Exemplifies Sensory's Leading Role in Powering the Voice Revolution

Shipping in over 2-Billion CE devices, Sensory's Speech Recognition, Biometrics and Computer Vision are adding Security and Convenience to Devices of All Shapes and Sizes



NEWS PROVIDED BY

Sensory 
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LAS VEGAS and SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 8, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Sensory Inc., a leader in speech and vision technologies that enhance the user experience and security of consumer electronics, today announced that its TrulyHandsfree™ speech recognition and TrulySecure™ biometric recognition/authentication technologies will be on display and demonstrable in over three-dozen sites at CES, ranging from chip manufacturers to tier-1 consumer electronics brands.


"Today, varying forms of Sensory AI can be found in products ranging from ultra-compact wearables to large kitchen appliances," said Todd Mozer, CEO of Sensory. "Sensory has remained at the forefront of the machine learning revolution by constantly improving its technology, building strong partnerships with chip manufacturers and the IP infrastructure, and working directly with CE vendors to keep always-listening processing speech recognition on device, instead of sending it to the cloud."
it was his vision 20 yrs ago!

TrulyHandsfree, Sensory's top-selling technology, and the CE industry's most widely deployed embedded always-listening wake word and voice control software solution, revolutionized voice user interfaces by offering the first commercially successful embedded small vocabulary speech recognition system to feature an always-listening wake word. Incorporating Sensory's smartest and most efficient deep neural network technologies to date, TrulyHandsfree takes embedded voice interfaces to new heights, offering an on-device voice user interface experience that is more natural and intuitive than ever before, while a new shallow learning approach compresses the model sizes down to run in ultra-low power and with minimal memory and MIPS. Today, TrulyHandsfree can be found in leading mobile phones, apps, action cameras, IoT devices, and even toys!

Much of Sensory's success can be attributed to the company's hard work in securing mutually beneficial relationships with leading chip manufacturers, IP providers and all leading operating systems. These relationships ensure that Sensory's technologies are deployable across platforms like iOS, Android, and Windows, and Linux but also across all the leading low power DSPs and microcontrollers. These chip and IP partners include Ambiq Micro, Analog Devices, ARM, Avnera, Cadence, CEVA, Cirrus Logic, DSP Group, Fortemedia, Knowles, Microsemi, NXP, Qualcomm, Quicklogic, Realtek, ST Micro, Samsung LSI, Synaptics, Synopsys, Texas Instruments, VeriSilicon and XMOS.

Sensory's TrulyHandsfree, TrulySecure, and TrulyNatural™ will be enabling seamless voice control and ironclad biometric security on dozens of new products and solutions being announced at CES, from brands like 3Nod, Abalta, Amazon, Anki, AONI, Binatone, Blue Frog Robotics, Braven, Caavo, Cleer, Doss, Garmin, Hi Mirror, Holimotion, Honeywell, Huawei, LG, Libre Wireless, Linkplay, Logitech, Mitsubishi, Motorola, NVidia, Plantronics, Samsung, Simplehuman, Speak Music, Sugr, Voicebox, Vuzix, Google Waze and ZTE.

Sensory will be providing private demos of its technologies at CES 2018. To schedule a meeting at CES, or for more information about this announcement, Sensory or its technologies, please contact sales@sensory.com; Press inquiries: press@sensory.com.

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   who will they ask for in China?
   
   they will ask for
   
   
   Xiaowei 
   
   
   
   In AI push, Tencent launches Alexa-style assistant
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   • Eva Xiao
     6:51 AM at Jun 29, 20175 min read
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     • Sole Treadmill.
       
       To the Western world, Tencent is best known for its all-encompassing social app WeChat and hefty gaming portfolio, which includes League of Legends and Clash of Clans. But behind the scenes, the Shenzhen-based tech firm is also advancing in a third, arguably more powerful arena: artificial intelligence.
       
       The Chinese tech giant, worth US$346 billion, now has an Alexa-like voice assistant dubbed Xiaowei. Shown off last week at Tencent’s cloud computing conference after launching at the end of May, Xiaowei is equipped with all the usual bells and whistles: weather reports, traffic updates, music requests, news blurbs. There’s voice recognition and facial recognition – plus an SDK for hardware developers to plug into.
       
       It’s nothing new in the realm of smart assistants – except that it’s backed by one of the largest and most influential tech companies in China.
       
       “Tencent has a lot of data sources,” Mao Hua, head of Xiaowei, told reporters at the conference. “WeChat is simply one channel,” he said, listing Tencent’s music, news, and video platforms as other sources of data.
       
       “The system is continuously improving.”
       
       Hard sell
       Voice assistants are not new in China. Chinese search engine Baidu unveiled a home robot at CES this year. Smaller companies are trying too – lots of them. However, none have been able to dominate their home market the way the Amazon Echo has in the US.
       
       Xiaowei has one crucial advantage over its many competitors: the sprawling Tencent ecosystem.
       “Amazon’s market so far has extended to the US, Canada, UK, Germany, and so forth. I see [Xiaowei] as Tencent trying to compete in that same market space,” says Michael Wang, co-founder of Platform 88, a Chinese hardware services firm that helps companies build and scale their products.
       
       “With their platform, I think it’s pretty easy for them to get the reach they’re looking for,” he tells Tech in Asia.
       
       Indeed, Tencent’s Xiaowei has one crucial advantage over its many competitors: the sprawling Tencent ecosystem. It owns stakes in ride-hailing, food delivery, education, and search engine companies. It has licensing deals across movies, music, sports, and literature. Plus, Tencent oversees two of the biggest social networks in China – WeChat alone has 938 million users active each month. All of that stuff can hook into Xiaowei – and be summoned by users with a voice command.
       
       
       “Little Fish”, an Echo-like home assistant jointly made by Baidu and hardware company AiNemo. Photo credit: Baidu.
       
       More data
       That being said, Tencent is not focusing on building its own apps for Xiaowei. Like Alexa, Tencent’s voice assistant wants to be the AI-powered backend for third-party developers and content providers.
       
       Through its “Skill” platform – reminiscent of the Alexa Skills Kit – developers can tap into Xiaowei’s SDK to plug in their own applications and content. Voice input from users will be channeled to Tencent Cloud, which does all the processing and spits out the appropriate response.
       
       So far, the Skill platform includes Didi Chuxing, electronic appliances brand Midea, and search engine Sogou. Hardware companies, such as Philips and Xiaomi, are also partnering with Xiaowei, which is designed for smart home devices like air conditioners and lights.
       
       For hardware startups, Baidu might be easier to work with because they’re less corporate.
       “I think [Xiaowei] will open up a whole different revenue stream for a lot of these startups that are going into IoT,” says Wang. “Now, a lot of the effort that would have had to be spent on R&D is now spent on marketing because you can tie into a backend that’s already established.”
       
       Baidu, with its DuerOS, is also a competitive offering, especially given its extensive research in speech recognition. For hardware startups, Baidu might even be easier to work with “because they’re less corporate,” says Wang. For instance, Tencent has to vet and approve all Xiaowei-powered hardware products before they’re launched.
       
       “If you’re a startup company with two people, then they’ll tell you to come back after you have 20 because they don’t see you as being the kind of company that they want to spend time on,” he explains. However, “if you’re going for big markets right away, then I would say the Tencent offering is going to be much bigger in terms of overall infrastructure.”
       
       
       Mao Hua, head of Xiaowei, speaking at Tencent’s cloud computing conference in Shenzhen last week. Photo credit: Tencent.
       
       Still, having launched only a month ago, Xiaowei is nascent. It’s still in the process of integrating WeChat and some of its other apps. QQ, its other massive social network, is already connected.
       
       Tencent isn’t disclosing whether developers have to pay to tap into Xiaowei, as the company is currently working with partners on a case-by-case basis. No Xiaowei gadgets have hit the market yet, though Tencent and Asus plan to launch Xiaowei-powered educational and home companion robots, respectively, this September.
       
       The Xiaowei team currently has about 100 employees spanning across multiple business units, including the AI Lab, WeChat, Tencent Music, Tencent Video, and Youtu Labs, Tencent’s image recognition-focused team. Various product lines have contributed different AI capabilities to Xiaowei, such as speech recognition and natural language processing – an ability trained by WeChat.
       
       However, it’s unclear what kind of user data is used for training. A company spokesperson later clarified that audio messages from WeChat users are not used, and declined to comment further on user data collection.
       
       Moving forward, Tencent plans to add more AI capabilities to Xiaowei’s repertoire, such as multilingual translation and object detection. Determining what services are suitable and efficient via voice command will also be an ongoing task for the crew.
       
       “When should we use a display? When should we use sound and voice?” asked Mao Hua. And AI assistants are not yet fluent in human speech. Ordering some things, like a latte from Starbucks, is easy enough, but what about picking a new toothbrush or buying Kung Pao Chicken for the first time? “If it’s a non-standardized situation, we can’t solve it,” he said.

   
   Use this as the mental model that the adjacent possible will get hard to track, and that will be so nice.....
   
   
   
   they will ask for
   
   
   Xiaowei

In the summer of '15 we learned that QUIK had chosen to hard code the Sensory LPSD.....




What's the hottest thing in the world of technology these days? Your voice.


New Tech Gadgets Are Following the Sound of Your Voice
January 07, 2018 6:14 PM

• Associated Press

A generate waveform image from an audio file, Sunday, Jan. 7, 2018. (Photo: Diaa Bekheet)

What's the hottest thing in the world of technology these days? Your voice.

Some of the most popular gadgets over the holiday season were smart speakers with digital assistants from Amazon and Google . Apple is coming out with its own speaker this year; Microsoft and Samsung have partnered on another.

As the annual Consumer Electronics Show kicks off in Las Vegas this week, manufacturers are expected to unveil even more voice-controlled devices - speakers and beyond - as Amazon and Google make their digital assistants available on a wider array of products. If these prove popular, you'll soon be able to order around much more of your house, including kitchen appliances, washing machines and other devices.

CES is expected to draw more than 170,000 people, as some 4,000 exhibitors showcase their wares over the equivalent of nearly 50 football fields, or more than 11 New York city blocks.


I learned this yr. that its NOT open to the public and still there are 170K.







The show formally opens Tuesday, with media previews starting Sunday.

While major tech companies such as Apple and Google typically don't make big announcements at CES, their technologies will be powering products and services from startups and other small companies. Expect more gadgets using Google's Android operating software and Google's digital assistant, for instance, and products that work with Apple's HomeKit, a smart-home system getting a boost with the coming launch of Apple's HomePod smart speaker.

Here's what else to expect at CES:

Artificial Intelligence

Computers that learn your preferences and anticipate your needs are no longer the stuff of science fiction. Consumers are seeing practical applications in voice-assisted speakers such as the Amazon Echo and Google Home. These systems will get more useful as manufacturers design new ways to control their products with voice commands.

You might also see hints of where AI is heading. Steve Koenig, senior director of market research at CES organizer Consumer Technology Association, says that as more people use these AI systems, companies have more data to better train the machines.

Auto makers will also demonstrate self-driving vehicles propelled by AI. CES is increasing the space for self-driving technologies by more than a third this year. Startups are expected to unveil earphones that promise real-time translations of conversations in different languages, much as Google's Pixel Buds now do, but only for Google's Pixel phones. There are also conference sessions devoted to high-tech retailing, including the importance of collecting and analyzing data on customers.

Smart Everything

Cars, lights, washing machines and other everyday items are getting internet connections. That could mean checking what's left in your fridge from the grocery store, for instance. Expect more appliances and tasks for them to do online.

As more devices get connected, there's greater concern for security. We'll likely see more products and services designed to protect these smart-home devices from hacking.

Beyond that, companies will showcase the potential of smartening up entire cities so that maintenance crews can remotely detect roads needing repairs, and motorists can view and reserve parking spaces ahead of time. Better yet, how about traffic lights that aren't set with timers, but reflect actual traffic and pedestrian flows?

For the first time, CES has an area devoted to smart cities, with more than 40 companies set to exhibit. The smart-cities concept has been making the rounds at several tech shows, but what remains unanswered is when it will actually begin happening - and who will pay for it.

Consumer Gadgets

CES is typically when Samsung, LG and other manufacturers announce their TV lineups for the year. In a bid to get consumers to upgrade sooner, higher-end models will come with fancy technologies going by such names as "4K," ''HDR" and "OLED." Many sets will come with voice controls. They will sit alongside basic sets that work just fine for regular viewing.

Don't expect new iPhones or flagship Galaxy models. Apple and Samsung typically announce those at their own events. But CES is the place for less-known and lower-cost Android phones, along with tablets, laptops and other personal computers, not to mention storage drives and other accessories.

There will also be virtual-reality and augmented-reality technologies, some aimed at sports fans who want to feel they're more part of the game.

And while a few companies like Apple and Fitbit are currently dominant in wearable devices, many startups are eager to challenge them with new approaches for tracking fitness and medical issues.

There should also be no shortage of flying drones overhead and scurrying robots underfoot. There will even be a robot that folds your laundry - though at a snail's pace of one shirt every two minutes.

Behind the Scenes

Although CES is about consumer electronics, consumers will never see many of the technologies on display. Network-equipment makers, for instance, might use the show to display technologies for next-generation 5G wireless networks, which promise to be much faster than the existing 4G LTE. Phones that can take advantage of 5G won't be around for a few more years.

Gary Shapiro, the head of the Consumer Technology Association, said that given the changing nature of technology, about a third of CES is now about back-end business deals rather than direct-to-consumer products.

"Twenty years ago, people bought products sold at retail stores in very defined categories," he said. "Now every company and business defines itself as a tech company




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So for me as nice is it will be for QUIK to have the best reference design of all in products that will be on shelves soon for folks to see.
What I hope for.......that this snip




What's the hottest thing in the world of technology these days? Your voice.


1. Drives the meeting schedule earlier and l8er into the evening, from the opening to the closing, straight through lunch and on into dinner- to 2x the pipe in a few hectic days.

for some

2. back-end business deals


for another
MAJOR cloud IoT player.

for eFPGA

The tools for faster product development with less hands on time for QUIK- we can glimpse HOW important that was?
Are they good enough that they dont have to turn business down? Without that it will not take long till we are saturated?
( A good q. to ask them directly)



Commentary; A nugget for me was the thread on xmos, the Bristol England outfit who is a Sensory IP user.


Why?

They filled in a blank for me. A tiny company, far from Silicon Valley, and they know fewer in the business than us.
They have just moved to better digs and say that for the next 24-36 months its going to be a very busy time for them.


As far as the news...the Brands are there to brand themselves. TO get the spotlight- especially for voice, whether its in a mirror, a faucet, a ring, etc. They are NOT there to help brand the innards that makes it possible. So I dont expect much there-that would be gratifying, but So a fictional( or real) map that would give the booths of where to go-that would be nice.




about a third of CES is now about back-end business deals 


So from reading you can sense the urgency to get voice everywhere. So I hope there are some
1/3- back-end stuff-for both LPSD EOS and eFPGA.
Just a few of these with the right names and the pipe is 2x.


Partnerships- the back-end stuff may add some future reference designs for a new range of devices. QUIK says to expect more of that.....there are so many in the IoT, a few more of those?
We want to be in more and more reference designs for
Voice.

Will track along.

back-end stuff?

sounds like NDA material to me. So in the coming weeks I sort of expect to read a blog item similar to the one in Sept. that gives us incremental info?


This CES will be a very good event for QUIK.

Sensory...20 yrs to be an overnight success.
We want that in '18.
What a great event to start this yr.

One in which long term holders can finally let go of looking back and only live in current events and those not so far away...

MWC in Feb. IoT summit in March, Wearable in London,....

sign them ALL up QUIK
thanks in advance.

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   this is a nice read
   
   ALEXA ON YOU, ALL THE TIME —
   
   
   
   
   Alexa could live in headphones, wearables thanks to new developer kit
   Bluetooth connectivity makes it easier for OEMs to put Alexa in tiny devices.
   
   VALENTINA PALLADINO - 1/5/2018, 11:31 AM
   
   
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   The next frontier for Amazon's Alexa may be the devices you keep on your person most of the time. Amazon announced the new Alexa Mobile Accessory Kit today, which will allow manufacturers to more easily integrate the company's voice assistant into headphones, smartwatches, fitness trackers, and other small devices. The kit is currently in developer preview, and partner companies including Bose, Jabra, and iHome are already testing it out.
   
   FURTHER READING
   Guidemaster: Everything Amazon’s Alexa can do, plus the best skills to enable
   The developer kit lessens the development load that manufacturers have to take on when making an Alexa-friendly accessory. Instead of using all of the code necessary to build Alexa into a device like a home speaker, manufacturers rely on only some of the code as well as Bluetooth connectivity to the Alexa mobile app. Headphones, wearables, and other Bluetooth-audio capable devices made with the Mobile Accessory Kit can connect to the Alexa mobile app on the device with which they are paired and access the Alexa Voice Service from the app.
   
   That means users can speak to these accessories, asking Alexa to perform various tasks like stream media, control smart home devices, and provide news and weather updates. Amazon also claims users can call upon Alexa "without worrying about Wi-Fi connectivity," but Alexa will require connection to access certain skills and pieces of information. In those cases, the Alexa app would use the device's LTE data.
   
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   While the Mobile Accessory Kit makes it easy for manufacturers to integrate Alexa into their products, it also means users of these products will have to download the Alexa app to glean the benefits. Some headphones and most wearables have their own companion mobile apps, and some users may not want to download a second app just to use voice commands. Also, these devices will only be able to use Alexa when connected via Bluetooth to a mobile device, as all of the voice command power comes from Amazon's app.
   
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   This doesn't definitively signal forthcoming, Amazon-made headphones or a smartwatch, but it does mean that Amazon is looking beyond the home for new ways to integrate Alexa into daily life. We've seen Alexa branch out slowly over the past year: Amazon made more developer kits that make it easier for manufacturers to integrate Alexa into kitchen appliances and automobiles, among other things. The company gave iOS usersaccess to Alexa earlier this year through the Amazon Shopping app, and it partnered with Garmin to make the Garmin Speak, a tiny Echo Dot-like device for your car that houses Alexa as well as Garmin's own voice command system that can give you driving directions.
   
   With the Mobile Accessory Kit, Amazon also likely wants to keep up with Apple and Google, both of which have wireless earbuds that support their own virtual assistants and voice commands. Those interested in tinkering with Amazon's Alexa Mobile Accessory Kit once it's made widely available can sign up here.
   
   
   Notice is does not say BLE, or Voice over BLE......they should really have this on BLE?
   

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   QUIK has told us they are working on something with a major IoT cloud player. Use the AMZN stuff to see how this will go.
   
   You cant really wait. You better get it done and not dither!
   
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   And Samsung? Get busy on the cloud part? thnks in advance.