NXP and Amazon Work Together to Bring More Alexa Experiences to the Smart Home
April 13 2017 - 9:05AM
NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ:NXPI) today announced the release
of the NXP reference platform for Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) Alexa, that
integrates Amazon’s far-field voice recognition technology and the
Alexa Voice Service (AVS).
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Designed to simplify the creation of new voice-control devices,
the new NXP reference platform for Amazon Alexa on i.MX is a
complete system containing Amazon’s 7-microphone array design,
far-field audio processing technology, and AVS client to enable
customers and partners to create their own high performance devices
with Alexa. NXP’s i.MX applications processors offer the
scalability to meet the requirements that are unique to each
customer design within the Internet of Things (IoT). The
applications processor portfolio features the i.MX 6 series for
general purpose applications, i.MX 7 series for low power
applications, and the new advanced i.MX 8 series to enable rich
interactive high performance multimedia and audio
experiences.
“Integrating high quality audio processing has made the
development of advanced voice-enabled devices lengthy and
complicated,” said Geoff Lees, senior vice president and general
manager of microcontrollers at NXP. “NXP’s reference platform for
Amazon Alexa is the definitive solution to this problem. This
reference design integrates Amazon’s proven far-field voice
recognition technology and our popular i.MX development platform to
enable the creation of high-performance voice-enabled devices with
Alexa and reduce time to market.”
“Customers love being able to talk to Alexa from across the room
with Amazon Echo,” said Priya Abani, Director, Alexa. “We are
excited to make it even easier for hardware makers to integrate the
convenient hands-free Alexa experience into their products, while
providing customers with new devices offering access to Alexa.”
Integrated with Amazon Far-field Voice Recognition
Technology
The NXP Reference Platform for Amazon Alexa features the same
high performance far-field technology developed by Amazon for
Amazon Echo. With advanced microphone arrays, audio processing
algorithms, and beam forming technology, devices using the NXP
reference design for Amazon Alexa will be able to recognize a
customer’s request from across the room, even when loud music is
playing. The NXP reference platform for Amazon Alexa on i.MX will
be available to commercial device manufacturers. OEMs can request
an invite on developer.amazon.com to participate in the exclusive
preview. For more information about the NXP reference platform for
Amazon Alexa, please visit www.nxp.com/alexa.
About i.MX Applications ProcessorsNXP i.MX
applications processors have one of the best power-to-performance
ratios of any processor in the world. Based on ARM® core
technology, the i.MX family of applications processors delivers
power and performance that is crucial in today’s multimedia devices
while simultaneously conserving demands on energy use. In addition,
i.MX products offer a high degree of integration to help reduce
design time. The family combines broad levels of integration and
power-efficient processing capabilities as well as high-definition
video and targets consumer and industrial applications. For more
information about i.MX application processors visit
www.nxp.com/imx.
About NXP Semiconductors NXP Semiconductors
N.V. (NASDAQ:NXPI) enables secure connections and infrastructure
for a smarter world, advancing solutions that make lives easier,
better and safer. As the world leader in secure connectivity
solutions for embedded applications, NXP is driving innovation in
the secure connected vehicle, end-to-end security & privacy and
smart connected solutions markets. Built on more than 60 years of
combined experience and expertise, the company has 31,000 employees
in more than 33 countries and posted revenue of $9.5 billion in
2016. Find out more at www.nxp.com.
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