It is designed to help development teams create far-field, voice-to-machine communications functionality that is more natural and robust than available today, says Jim Beneke, vice president, engineering and technology at Avnet. He adds: “This versatile technology not only solves the problem of cancelling noise, echo and reverb that often confuse many popular cloud-based digital assistants and robotics applications, but the ability to recognise more than one wake word/phrase is a true differentiator”.

Aaware’s Acoustically Aware sound capture algorithms, paired with TrulyHandsfree wake word detection technology from Sensory, allow systems to adapt to differing noise interference, without requiring calibration for different environments or integration of the reference signal.