- Hello, welcome to the IOT Developer Show.
Today our guest is Siva Jeghathan from Intel.
He's been on the Intel Software Channel
before talking about the Intel Speech Enabling Developer Kit.
And today we're going to talk a little bit more in-depth
about the board and get a better understanding of how it all
works.
Siva, thank you so much for joining us.
- Thanks so much, Martin, for having me.
I'm a software architect at Intel Smarthome Group.
And I'm the Product Manager for the Intel Speech Enabling
Developer Kit.
- Excellent.
So what is the Intel Speech Enabling Developer Kit?
- I would love to talk all about it.
Why don't I just show you quickly what it can do?
Alexa, what's the temperature in Honolulu?
- Right now, in Honolulu, Hawaii, it's 82 degrees.
Today, expect a high of 85 degrees.
- What you have here is an Intel Speech Enabling Developer
Kit that is designed to help product developers at Alexa
to develop their products.
It's a customizable audio solution
that can be modified to meet the product
usages so it can quickly bring the product to the market.
And this is an Amazon qualified, premium class
far-field audio developer kit.
- So how hard is it to get this Amazon qualification?
- Most personal assistant vendors like Amazon, Microsoft,
and Google, they have specific requirements for far-field
audio qualification.
So that the finer systems can meet the performance
requirements of the product.
And the system audio tuning, for example,
requires specialized lab equipment
and tuning facilities.
- Wow, that sounds really involved.
And I'm sure that most developers don't have access
to those kind of facilities.
- That is certainly true, Martin.
And that is our motivation behind launching the developer
kit so that we can ease the burden on the developers.
- OK, well what kind of products do you
envision this kit being used to build and prototype?
- The kind of product that developers can build
is dependent on the geometry of the mic array.
Given that this is an eight mic [INAUDIBLE] solution,
it is best suited for tabletop smart speaker class of devices.
- OK, makes sense.
So what are the features of the Intel Speech Enabling Developer
Kit?
- The primary technology that drives
these kits is Intel's dual DSP chip with Interference Engine.
Now dual DSP runs Intel's proprietary far-field audio
algorithms such as beamforming, acoustic echo cancellation,
and noise reduction.
The key words spotter for Alexa runs
on the DSP as well that father improving
the product's performance.
This makes the development of the premium class
product much easier.
- Excellent.
So what are some of the advantages
of developing on this kit?
- In my mind there are two main advantages
for using our developer kit to build products.
The first one is that we have encapsulated all the required
audio algorithms into a single DSP.
Because like building a premium class
audio solution by yourself without any help is very hard.
So the second thing is that the keyword spotter
is running on the DSP as well.
That frees up the host processor to do other applications.
So a product developer can implement a low power,
always listening solution quite easily.
- It sounds like developers will get access
to a premium developer kit with a fast integration time as well
as a low power profile.
So what do developers actually get
when they purchase this kit?
- They get both hardware and software with it.
So from the hardware piece you get the DSP board
and the eight mic array board.
From the software perspective, we
have the firmware pre-flashed into the DSP,
so the developers can get it right out of the bag.
And there are software tools available
provided in the resource link, which they can go get it.
The one thing the developers don't get is the Raspberry Pi.
They will have to purchase it separately to make it work.
- Siva, this is a really fantastic kit
for developers who want to integrate
any kind of speech recognition into their projects.
Thank you so much for coming on today.
- Thanks a lot for having me.
And I'm super excited to see what developers build with it.
- Alexa, Simon says, that's a wrap.
- That's a wrap.
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