I will try to say it again as it helps me understand it better. This is the question I have been thinking about

Why would a carrier mandate always on voice on a flagship smartphone?

They would mandate always on voice IF they want to be Alexa....

A lot of hearables have the data go to Amazon, to cut that out- put it on the smartphone flagship and then and only
then does the carrier get the data/. Dont let Amazon build itself bigger, keep some value for yourself.

The Telefonica roadmap was helpful for me to get the answer.
Only these carriers, none in our part of the world- will consider always listening on their flagships.
To their loss. 

These carriers if they execute will be very smart....

I had a hard time with this because the USA seems NOT to have any such carriers, they have given all of this to GOOG and AMZN.....

Who are on my own list of carriers who have an inking of this?

In no order....

Japan's DoCoMo
Korea's KT
China- China Mobile

Telefonica in 6 countries.

there may be others.

This will be pretty easy for me to track.

QUIK cn you get the Japanese OEM concept device into the hands of the right people in ALL these carriers?

Oh, you already have. tnks.

I will close with this great snip from Telefonica on their own Alexa

“I can tell you that I am very proud of what we have achieved. I’m very proud of my team. I am very proud of Telefónica and the future we are writing,” said Telefónica’s chairman José María Álvarez-Pallet.

My .02 cents on that topic.

1. On the carrier mandating always on voice- that is the feature . The news from MWC on the carrier Telfonica relates. The carriers who create their own Alexa AI platforms
will have a different thought process and reasons to consider a mandate for a flagship with always on voice.. The list of such carriers is nice nice list of 4-5 guys so far that I can find.
There is one in Japan. The whole platform has to be ready- the device, the digital assistant, the cloud, the AI. so a LOT of things have to get worked out. If it doesnt all work right- its better to push it back and get it down. But not so long that they loose the chance and let it slip away.
I had NOT expected a Japanese carrier announcement at MWC. (The harsh criticism of Apples SiRi on the homepod tells us that like our Tier 1 wearable- it better work, ie understand what you said.)

The carriers like the Japanese one and Telefonica can't dither for too long or they will miss the opportunity.

1A. My thought process has shifted a little with the loss of many smartphone jacks and bluetooth hearables.....IF the carriers do NOT try an always listening flagship their customers are likely to use more hearables to the same endpoint? Either way all roads lead to always listening for every customer of a platform.The only difference is who gets the cloud. IF a carrier wants the data, they better put it on the flagship and make it easier.

2. On the concept device itself; It will be of interest ONLY (?) to those carriers, like Telefonica- who have the vision of their own ALexa.
So the Japanese OEM could show it to telefonica, and the few others who have the same vision.

why would they bother?

AI- voice is the input, but it only works well IF its always listening. When they put always listening on the phone, they will get the data, they
can offer more and get more. Amzn uses the dialog from the echo to help train their voice algos faster and thats why they are a fair bit better than SiRis now.


In the big pic its nice that Telefonica has very good reason to add a flagship with always listening. Now we know that there is a carrier in Japan thinking it over, Telefonica will consider it also. Some others....


With each such news item the odds go up that some one of them WILL give it a go. But IT HAS to work at some reasonable level-

IF a carrier wants the data- mandate always listening on the flagship?
A lot of hearables have the data go to Amazon, to cut that out- put it on the smartphone flagship and then and only
then does the carrier get the data/. Dont let Amazon build itself bigger, keep some value for yourself- for its toooo late.

From this point of view it seems that it has to happen?
In Japan, or in Telefonica turf, or in KT, or China Mobile.

The carriers are smart to want the data. Telefonica really gets it.

 QUIK, can you get the Japanese OEM  concept c over to telefonica and sign them up?

the will be interested.

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   I will also track carriers and voice - like this one
   
   
   MWC 2018: Telefónica rolls out Aura voice assistant in Chile
   February 26, 2018 Web Editor 0
   
   
   BARCELONA – Allying with tech giants Facebook, Google and Microsoft, Telefonica has launched Aura, an artificial intelligence-powered digital assistant, in six countries, as well as announcing a new initiative to bring 100 million people in Latin America online by using mobile networking technology for the first time.
   
   Both developments were presented by José María Alvárez-Pallete, Telefonica chairman-CEO, during a full keynote at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
   
   First announced at last year’s Mobile World Congress, Aura works much like Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri and Microsoft’s Cortana, allowing customers to request information and control devices through voice commands.
   
   “Aura is born as a commitment to make the artificial intelligence capabilities of Telefónica available to our customers in order to offer them a differentiated and personalized experience.
   
   
   
   “I can tell you that I am very proud of what we have achieved. I’m very proud of my team. I am very proud of Telefónica and the future we are writing,” said Telefónica’s chairman José María Álvarez-Pallet.
   
   Powered by artificial intelligence, the Aura technology will be available through apps that Telefónica’s customers can download onto their mobile devices.
   
   The system, which is available in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom, uses artificial intelligence to interact with costumers, allowing them to manage their digital experiences with Telefonica and control the data generated.
   
   
   
   The company said Aura will run on its Movistar+ pay-TV platform in Spain, while being available via Facebook Messenger in Chile and Germany. In Chile, it will also be integrated with Facebook’s Safety Check service to help Telefonica customers connect with friends and family in emergency situations such as earthquakes.
   
   
   Will they get to always listening ?
   It does help to show that the move to Voice is pervasive.
   

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   Commentary: This snip is very useful to me
   
   
   Telefonica....
   Aura voice assistant 
   
   The system, which is available in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom, uses artificial intelligence to interact with costumers, allowing them to manage their digital experiences with Telefonica and control the data generated.
   
   
   How?
   
   1. Its a carrier, and like several other carriers they have an idea to be the AMZN alexa where they are strong.
   Its different than in the USA.
   
   2. Its easy to see why these sorts of carriers, with this vision would seriously want to consider Always listening voice mandates for a flagship phone.
   
   that way they get the data.
   
   A smartphone OEM who has always listening smartphones to show them might get some interest.
   
   
   
   So Japan OEM, can you sign up telefonica soon, they have will have some interest in the concept phone.
   Tnks in advance

timing... yet this Q......


We are also on schedule to introduce a new low voltage version of EOS later this quarter that will be called EOS S3LV. With this, we will lower our power consumption for always-on/always-listening use cases by as much as 30% and extend our already significant competitive advantage over other MCU based solutions.


comments... thanks to PMCW for the QUIK quarterly documents are so well done. I can see the time it takes to craft them.

So for the casual readers....

1. Voice focus- it specifically says lower power for Voice..... they are delivering the power savings for what is in huge demand right now.

2. QUIK is NOT just sitting around twiddling its thumb while it waits for that Tier 1....they are busy, They have this coming our way soon.
I noted a while ago that there has been a subtle change in QUIK slide deck.... A yr or so ago the algos for MCHR ( motion comensated heart rate )
were more compue intense than voice...now they have changed places....thats good.

So I put this here also.....


A new solution we will add later this quarter leverages our dual microphone inputs by adding beam forming technology and advanced noise cancellation. The goal here is to enhance user experiences in noisy environments. An example of this would be cancelling wind noise to enable accurate voice commands while driving a car with the window down.


These are algos, they add compexity and compute intensity, and also make for a better voice input into the AI....

So the IoV has them bringing a Eos S3LV, adding the algos for noise.


So let it percolate....

Me, I'm a news addict. We have incremental improvements with a focus on VOICE that are coming our way NEAR term. QUIK cannot control when a tier 1 makes up its mind, it cannot think for the Japanese carrier on when/ or if they will mandate always listening voice. 




They can execute to make Voice easier to adopt, perhaps get a few more cents / unit sold.
QUIK is very careful so I think it IS significant that in Q2 they could say that the feature in question was always on voice




the good news is that the design has expanded from a simple sensor hub function to one that now includes a carrier-driven requirement for always-on voice as well. This means the design will leverage several elements of the EOS S3 silicon platform including ARM Cortex M4F MCU, LPSD, and FFE.



, the next Q it changed to " certain features",
as though they had said too much already? 



PS snips of text....

a concept smartphone that it intends to showcase at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona later this quarter. 


neither Kyocera, or Casio are listed as exhibiting at MWC....so I have taken them off of my list....leaving
2 names for me..... and as I handicap things for only FUN.

Sharp- at MWC they have thier S3, the reporting says that this device can be purchased in Japan already, its on the market there for a month or so.

It has shifted the probabilities a little for me. Sure they could have another version on tap for the Carrier in question.


Finally for the casual readers on my personal approach to QUIK. After reading S Johnson's chapter on the Adjacent possible I wrote in my journal that I would use his lens on QUIK. I would NOT use the price listed on the ticker much, as its not useful for me. It gave me a green light to read digressively ALL I want for anything I can find. I really liked the eFPGA IP initiative as the common question of, " what in the world does this have to do with QUIK." is gone for the most part. I try not to have an opinion, just use the adjacent possible and what opinion it would have.

So EOS S3LV, and the coming algos for noise are exactly what we would expect.

why not digress while waiting......with your minds go to China.

what good is a smart speaker if you are NOT home much?

one snip from


This Is Why China Hasn't Jumped on the Smart Speaker Bandwagon



Many people, especially younger workers, tend to spend less time at home, where smart speakers are meant to be used.

“If you look at the popularity of the food delivery business, it shows people don’t have much time; young people spend most of their time either at work, or going to work,” Yu said. “There’s still some speculation on whether smart speakers will be popular in China.”



if speakers are not so hot there, perhaps
something more portable.....just like what we are in?

they have an idea what to make?

will track along, just be glad its not a speaker?


http://blog.quicklogic.com/corporate/getting-leading-edge-voice-enabled-products-to-market-quickly/#sthash.qHSGR4dK.dpbs