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

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   Bixby 2.0 may eliminate the need to say ‘Hi Bixby’ for every command
   Home / News / Bixby 2.0 may eliminate the need to say ‘Hi Bixby’ for every command
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   Samsung introduced its personal digital assistant Bixby last year with the Galaxy S8. The voice assistant is yet to receive a major update but as our reviews have shown, it holds a lot of promise for software that’s only in its first iteration.
   
   Samsung introduced Bixby 2.0 three months ago at its developer conference in San Francisco, it said that this will be a “bold reinvention” of the Bixby platform. A new report out of China suggests that Bixby 2.0 will power effortless communication with Galaxy smartphones, enabling users to give one command after the other without having to say the “Hi Bixby” hotword every single time.
   
   Bixby 2.0 may enable effortless communication with Galaxy smartphones
   Say you want to ask Bixby what’s the time right now in London. You say Hi Bixby and then follow it up with the relevant voice command. Now you want to ask what’s the weather like there but right now you have to say the hotword again.
   
   A China-based source who has been right on multiple accounts in the past claims that Bixby 2.0 will let users talk to the assistant continuously. This means that they may only have to say Hi Bixby once and will be able to effortlessly give follow-up voice commands to the assistant.
   
   Samsung did say that Bixby 2.0 is going to transform basic digital assistants into an intelligence tool and that it’s going to feature enhanced natural language capabilities. Allowing users to constantly speak to the assistant without requiring the hotword every single time or a tap on the on-screen Bixby button is really going to make life easier for them, particularly in situations where they can’t hold the phone in their hands.
   
   Unfortunately, Samsung is yet to reveal when Bixby 2.0 is going to be released. Today’s report doesn’t mention anything about availability as well. We’ve heard nothing so far to suggest that Samsung might introduce Bixby 2.0 with the Galaxy S9 even though it would make perfect sense for the company to do so.
   
   
   So there is some movement....what are we looking for.
   Always listening is so powerful that the Bix button will have to go.
   A Smartphone that is dumber than an always listening lightbulb
   has no GEEK factor?
   
   Come on Japan voice focused carrier, be the first one.
   Its right there for you/////
   

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   commentary-i looked up when we went to Reach China...
   
   it was way back in June. see nxt post
   

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   QuickLogic to Present at the Reach China Investment Conference in Beijing
   
   
   SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 12, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- QuickLogic Corporation (NASDAQ:QUIK), a developer of ultra-low power programmable sensor processing, embedded FPGA IP, display bridge and programmable logic solutions, will participate in the Reach China Investment Conference being held June 26-27, 2017, at the China World Hotel in Beijing.
   
   President and CEO Brian Faith and Dr. Sue Cheung, the company's CFO, are scheduled to present at 9:45 a.m. local time on Tuesday, June 27th. The investor presentation will be posted to http://ir.quicklogic.com/
   
   As the world's largest manufacturing country for mobile and wearable devices, China is an important, strategic market for QuickLogic. After the conference, the management team will attend Mobile World Congress Shanghai for customer and ecosystem partner meetings.
   
   Reach China is a consulting firm that facilitates cross-border transactions and business activities. The Reach China Investment Conference will feature select U.S.listed and global companies from the Healthcare, Consumer, Technology, and Industrial sectors and will offer a premier investment and business platform for Chinese institutional investors and management teams.
   
   
   Now, with the China news, and we should have more in that geography. Brian Faith may have to explain to many say at Needham who TenCent WeChat is, but maybe a few folks over there can put each CHina news item into context and make an investment decision without any need for an explanation.

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   what did I learn?
   
   I really didn't know that bluetooth head sets are already selling in some BIG numbers for wearables?
   
   QUIK can you turn all these to hearables and heart monitors?
   
   thnks in advance.

'on '18, I have made it a key thing that when we get some more info that is more than we had hoped for, to use such an item to
completely sever with the past and leave it behind. An item that says there is just NO point in carrying such stuff in your head.

Consider that some events that were painful are VERY good for  QUIK. How?

just a few.

1. SPI- sensor platforms inc.- when their ip was taken out, and QUIK scrambled and built an algo team. I like that it happened now. Why?
I see parallels to the current situation of Sensory IP. I sleep better knowing they WILL not be overdependent on any single IP partner. That each and every contract will take the very real possibility of M & A into consideration. They will do in house what they can.

2. Andy Pease- "we do NOT call on Apple." I read the detailed account of Apple leading little Valencel along- seeing all the health stuff they had- with some notion of using their IP- then zippo and Apple maybe just took the best of the ideas. The lawsuit won't do Valencel much good?

Commentary-so in the GEEK writing they say...SiRi has trouble still with the high rates of voice recognition that As Alexa and Goog have. Their accuracy is lagging. Always on voice has put a crack in their future? Its great in some ways. No offence to the very loyal Apple ecosystem fans.


3. Apical- Michael Tusch's one very grt algo. It was compute intense. It was a huge success, it has been placed on BILLIONS of smartphones.
It must have really stung when that algo fell to Moores law and was placed onto the CPUs of those Billions of devices. .

It must have increased the resolve to get onto the RIGHT side of Moore's law as we are now.



So having been in business for these past 30 yrs. gives them real experience not only with eFPGA tools, but they are wise in ways start ups are NOT? They are not likely to blow it as they step from one room to the next-they will just execute and follow the technology-