Kopin’s Whisper Voice Chip Is CES 2017 Innovation Awards Honoree
November 29 2016 - 9:15AM
Business Wire
Award Marks Display Company’s Market Extension
to Voice for Wearables
A new voice technology from Kopin Corporation (Nasdaq: KOPN) – a
chip that can double the accuracy of automatic speech recognition
in noisy environments and that dramatically improves far-field
voice quality in smartphones and wearables – was named a CES 2017®
Innovation Awards Honoree in the Embedded Technologies category by
the Consumer Technology Association (CTA)™.
When designed into mobile electronics, the new Kopin Whisper™
Voice Chip provides users superior speech recognition and voice
quality – especially in noisy environments such as a shopping mall,
a city street or a busy restaurant. As consumers increasingly
choose voice as their preferred interface to electronic devices,
OEMS and integrators will need technologies such as Whisper that
improve voice performance.
More Wearables Tech from Kopin
For Kopin, a long-time developer of display technologies and
products for wearables, Whisper represents a market expansion into
voice and speech: It was one of three Kopin products awarded the
CTA’s Honoree status last week. The others were Kopin’s Solos™
smart sunglasses for athletes, and its Black Pupil™ tiny liquid
crystal display (LCD) module for smart glasses such as Solos and
other brands.
“The CTA’s recognition of Whisper is a bellwether that customers
will be as interested in Kopin voice technologies as they are in
Kopin display technologies,” said Kopin President and CEO Dr. John
C.C. Fan. “Other speech-recognition solutions deteriorate in most
real-world environments, but not our Whisper Voice Chip. It’s the
game-changer that OEMs and integrators – as well as consumers –
have eagerly awaited.”
No Hands Needed
The 4x4mm, low-power, digital Whisper Voice Chip enables
wearable electronics to perform accurate speech recognition and to
provide more natural voice quality. What’s more, it provides a true
hands-free, noise-cancelled speech-recognition interface that works
nearly everywhere – regardless of environmental noise – addressing
the key pain-point about which consumers complain today.
The key to Whisper’s extreme accuracy is Kopin’s Voice
Extraction™ Filter. The filter uses artificial intelligence to
model an acoustic environment and single out the voice signal from
all other noise.
Feeding Whisper’s exceedingly clean linear voice signal into a
speech engine results in significant improvements in
speech-recognition rates and a more natural-sounding voice to the
far-end listener. (In tests, Whisper maintained an accuracy rate of
93 percent in a 95 dB noise environment, compared to competitive
products, which maintained an accuracy rate of just 40 percent or
less.)
Whisper accepts up to four standard digital microphone inputs
and includes an on-board digital speaker driver to replace the
codec. The device works with any operating system, any processor
platform and any speech engine.
Hear Whisper at CES 2017
Kopin invites senior executives from wearables and smartphone
companies to private demonstrations at Kopin’s CES 2017 suite at
The Palazzo, located at 3325 S. Las Vegas Blvd., between the Wynn
and Venetian hotels. To schedule an appointment, contact: Paul
Baker, vice president of business development, at pbaker@kopin.com
or (508) 870-5959.
Whisper Voice Chip, Solos smart sunglasses and Black Pupil LCD
display module will be among the Kopin products displayed on the
CES show floor in Booth #26035, at the Las Vegas Convention Center
South Hall. Additional information about Kopin at CES is available
at events@kopin.com.
About the CES 2017 Innovation Awards
Whisper, Solos, Black Pupil and the other CES 2017 Innovation
Awards Honorees were judged by a panel of independent industrial
designers, independent engineers and members of the trade media to
award outstanding design and engineering in cutting-edge consumer
electronics products across 28 product categories. The prestigious
CES Innovation Awards are sponsored by the CTA, the producer of
CES, the annual global gathering place for the business of consumer
technologies, to be held Jan. 5-8.
About Kopin
Kopin Corporation is a leading developer of innovative wearable
computing technologies and solutions. Kopin’s technology portfolio
includes ultra-small displays, optics, speech enhancement
technology, software, low-power ASICs, and ergonomically designed
smart headset concept systems. Kopin’s proprietary components and
technology are protected by more than 300 global patents and
patents pending, with more than 95% related to wearable
technologies. For more information, please visit Kopin’s website at
www.kopin.com.
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements in this press release may be considered
“forward-looking” statements under the “Safe Harbor” provisions of
the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These
include, without limitation, statements relating to our expectation
that Whisper represents an expansion into voice and thatWhisper
Voice Chip is a “game changer. These statements involve a number of
risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially from those expressed in the forward-looking statements.
These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the
following: there may not be demand for our Whisper Voice Chip
products; our Whisper technology may not perform as we expect;
there may be issues that prevent the adoption or our Whisper
technology, Black Pupil LCD modules, Voice Extraction™ Filter and
Solos products; manufacturing, marketing or other issues may
prevent either the adoption or acceptance of our products; the
Company might be adversely affected by competitive products and
pricing; new product initiatives and other research and development
efforts may be unsuccessful; manufacturing delays, technical
issues, economic conditions or external factors may prevent the
Company from achieving its goals; we could be delayed in shipping
some of our products; and other risk factors and cautionary
statements listed in the Company’s periodic reports and
registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, including the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the 12
months ended December 26, 2015, and the Company’s subsequent
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. You
should not place undue reliance on any forward-looking statements,
which are based only on information currently available to the
Company and only as of the date on which they are made. The Company
undertakes no obligation to update any of these forward-looking
statements to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the
date of this release.
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