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[cosors]

Good morning all,

I thought that the tech talk was excellent, Nandan speaks very clearly and deliberately in an attempt to get his message out as
clear as possible, and that's part of his job in Marketing, communication is key, shutting down misconceptions and/or misunderstandings
that could throw a potential client off in engaging with us in the first place and unintentionally telling his network of friends, hence spreading
misinformation about our Akida suite of products.

A number of posters on this forum have once again packaged this webinar up into the "nothing new to see" category, lets be clear here,
this webinar was targeted at developers, companies in or looking at getting into the AI product development space, not Australian Mum
Dad investors wanting to hear that revenue is flowing in and we've just signed Samsung so the share price will burst through the $2.00
mark again in 5 trading days !

Our exposure has never been this engaging before, all the different departments within the Brainchip organization are working hard, all
with the same team goal, to spread the message, to deliver brilliance to current and future clients, to make the ease to market as uncomplicated as possible.

Some companies have already met us at the intersection, others may be 3/6/9/12 months away from that same point on the road, but once our
paths intersect, well, "once you're in, you're in for generations".

Rob spoke great as well..

Regards....Tech

Even if they are only small fishs compared to your Samsung I would still have the automation sector on board just
I hope that doesn't come across as greedy, but 2.5 wouldn't be bad either
It doesn't have to be exactly this order - I'm modest.

Siemens
Emerson
ABB
Schneider Electric
Rockwell Automation
Festo
Fortive
Mitsubishi Electric
Honeywell
...~KUKA

 

[schuey]

I'm seriously likeable, I was just informed. ....haha .. y'all don't know me ....hahah

 

[SebThatGermanChap]

 

[Learning]

Not particularly exciting and a bit older, but for me as a sceptical German it's nice to see any sign that Akida is known here. It's about a project funded by a federal state. And what do my tired eyes discover:

"PROJECT RESULTS​

In the course of the project, "event-based" cameras were used in parallel with classic "frame-based" cameras to create a data set with twelve different gestures/actions. This dataset was used to train both classical neural networks (CNN+LSTM) and spiking neural networks to classify the gestures shown. The networks trained in this way were run on corresponding hardware accelerators and the two resulting systems (classic and event-based) were compared in terms of prediction accuracy, electrical power consumption and generated data rate. The event-based system achieved a higher prediction accuracy with a significantly lower data rate and electrical power consumption. The figure shows a section of the demonstration system.final report can be extracted."
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"The SNNs were also ported as far as possible to the neuromorphic hardware platform BrainChip Akida and evaluated there in terms of throughput and electrical power consumption. A comparison with the simulation of the SNN on a GPU-based computer and with the values of the KNN-based system can be seen in Table 3."

Means power consumption and frames per second
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The entire final report:
https://www.embeddedneurovision.de/...2-02-abschlussbericht-embeddedneurovision.pdf

It is/was about:
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https://www.embeddedneurovision.de/

https://www.fzi.de/

https://www.inferics.com/

https://www.hs-analysis.com/

Who knows, maybe one of the project participants is among us?

_____________________
I would also give a general tip not to always search in English. We come from all parts of the world here. Today, for the first time I had the idea of searching in my own language German ("gepulste neuronale Netze" ~ spiking neural network). I recommend this even more to the French among us. They are even more 'specialised' than we are with their language.) We love our Denglish.

Does FCAS mean anything to you? There is no entry here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Combat_Air_System
In addition to the companies mentioned above the Fraunhofer-Institut is deeply involved in the development of military equipment, as I heard on the radio yesterday. Was new to me. This is one of the top research institutions in our country.

Fantastic find cosor.

No matter how old. When reading its first time. It's news to me. It's validation for Brainchip's Akida.

Learning 🏖

 

[Learning]

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Wow, SabThatGermanChap.

Thanks for sharing.

That's definitely more valuation for Brainchip's Akida.

Learning 🏖

 

[Slade]

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Great find. Great news!!!

 

[cosors]

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Sometimes we just have to be patient to harvest the nectar and not sour fruits.

https://www.islinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/IMS2022-Radar-Overview-Guerci.pdf

"ISL Wins Urban Air Mobility Challenge​

(Second from left, ISL’s Project Manager, Alex Talbott)
ISL’s Agility Prime project team submitted an innovative idea to the ATI Urban Air Mobility Innovation Challenge in July 2022. The ISL team was notified of selection to pitch the idea to a select panel of judges at the Defense TechConnect Innovation Summit & Expo in Washington D.C. on September 28th, 2022. The innovative idea was centered around providing neuromorphic radar capabilities to the urban air mobility community for safety and autonomous use.

The ISL team was one of 20 selected companies to pitch their autonomous and urban air mobility ideas to the panel. The top 5 pitches were selected to receive “no strings attached” funding. The pitch was limited to 5 minutes with a 3-minute Q&A after to help the judging panel better understand the technology’s use and project goals. The ISL pitch team received a fair number of questions from the panel, many of which were centered around our neuromorphic training capability and modeling and simulation tool RFview®. ISL’s pitch was selected as one of the winners of the innovation challenge and received an innovation award certificate and an innovation medal."
https://www.islinc.com/isl-wins-urban-air-mobility-challenge

 

[Bravo]

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"Even though it was NOT designed with these applications in mind. A real game changer!"

AKIDA BALLISTA - GAME CHANGER - UBIQUITOUS - GROUND BREAKING - UNPARALLELED PERFORMANCE - MAGIC SAUCE -
KRYPTONITE - ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE MORE EFFICIENT - 10 x BIGGER THAN MICROSOFT - 11 X BIGGER THAN BEN HUR - REVOLUTIONARY - BLAZINGLY FAST - DE FACTO STANDARD - SUPER-CHIP ON STEROIDS

 

[Fullmoonfever]

So we know that Teksun partnered with us.

We know that Vivoka partnered with Teksun recently too.

Hmmmm...clutching?...would be nice

https://vivoka.com/vivoka-challenges-the-voice-assistant-giants-with-its-offline-solution/

Vivoka challenges the voice assistant giants with its offline solution​

Written by Anaïs DAUFFER​

Latest | Press Releases​

Paris, France. April 11, 2023. Vivoka is announcing an NLU (Natural Language Understanding) technology that is as powerful as the cloud, but running in an embedded voice assistant. In doing so, Vivoka is challenging the biggest in voice technology such as Siri, Alexa or Google Assistant as the French company stands out for its ability to operate offline and thus advocate data protection and Green IT.

An almost human voice assistant?​

The NLU (natural language understanding) allows voice assistants to understand any vocal command as long as the user’s intention is clear. Today, artificial intelligence pushes the limits of what is possible by allowing real interactions between humans and machines.

The voice assistant focuses on the intention and not on the words in particular. The machine, which learns from examples, will refine its understanding to interact more easily, quickly and widely with humans; this is called Machine Learning. Until now, embedded voice assistants have included predefined phrases and voice commands could not go outside of this framework.

“The current boundaries of embedded voice assistants lie in their limited ability to understand complex sentences. The NLU we’re working on will enable tomorrow’s assistants to not only perform as well as those available in the cloud, but also limit energy impact and protect our customers’ data.” said William Simonin, Vivoka’s co-founder and CEO.

The particularity of Vivoka, since the creation of its VDK (Voice Development Kit), is the fact that everything is offline (embedded). Indeed, the voice assistants, implemented in any device, can be used without an internet connection, which allows a total independence on the final product. This independence already takes effect in the development of Vivoka, which does not use any external components for this version of its software.

The disconnection mainly reduces the impact of data and data storage on the environment. Vivoka’s digital sobriety allows its customers to meet their sustainability goals while having a voice assistant as powerful as those connected.

The power of the cloud but embedded?​

Vivoka is the first company to achieve this!

“It was time to bring to the industry and to consumer electronic devices, the possibility to control their interfaces by voice, without having to make them dependent on the Internet, for a secure and operational use instantly. Well, it’s done with our voice development software VDK. In 2023, Vivoka brings embedded voice control to life with revolutionary AI functionality.” – confirms Emmanuel Chaligné, Product Director.

Many sectors, such as defense, industry, logistics or even household appliances, cannot depend on an internet-connected solution. As a result, the demand from players in these sectors is growing. Vivoka is not only established in France but worldwide thanks to this not so widespread technology. The development of this functionality based on natural language seemed logical to them:

“Today we export our VDK technology to all five continents and are present in many industrial sectors. We know the demand. Our partners have been waiting for a long time for a high-performance solution that allows their users to talk naturally to their systems, without going through the Internet. The technical barrier that we are going to remove with the first embedded NLU will make this possible. This was the logical next step in our development. It will allow Vivoka to show that the cloud is not an obligation, and that a company should not have to choose between performance and data protection.” says William Simonin.

Here are two examples of how an embedded NLU can be used:

• Professional setting:
  • Voice implemented in dental office chairs will allow practitioners to naturally and easily control patient height and tilt.
  • The NLU will enable next generation robots to be equipped with speech. Voice is a natural interaction and robots will be able to replicate human actions in many fields such as education, industry or health.
• Private setting:
  • In the future, household appliances will be controlled by voice without the need for the house to be connected and without an internet connection for these appliances. Users will not need to learn ready-made phrases, they will be able to speak naturally, as they would with other humans.

These are only 3 examples among many sectors concerned such as: IoT (internet of things), connected home, transport, logistics, education, connected glasses/headsets, robotics, defense and health

 

[Deadpool]

So we know that Teksun partnered with us.

We know that Vivoka partnered with Teksun recently too.


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Hmmmm...clutching?...would be nice

https://vivoka.com/vivoka-challenges-the-voice-assistant-giants-with-its-offline-solution/

Vivoka challenges the voice assistant giants with its offline solution​

Written by Anaïs DAUFFER​

Latest | Press Releases​

Paris, France. April 11, 2023. Vivoka is announcing an NLU (Natural Language Understanding) technology that is as powerful as the cloud, but running in an embedded voice assistant. In doing so, Vivoka is challenging the biggest in voice technology such as Siri, Alexa or Google Assistant as the French company stands out for its ability to operate offline and thus advocate data protection and Green IT.

An almost human voice assistant?​

The NLU (natural language understanding) allows voice assistants to understand any vocal command as long as the user’s intention is clear. Today, artificial intelligence pushes the limits of what is possible by allowing real interactions between humans and machines.

The voice assistant focuses on the intention and not on the words in particular. The machine, which learns from examples, will refine its understanding to interact more easily, quickly and widely with humans; this is called Machine Learning. Until now, embedded voice assistants have included predefined phrases and voice commands could not go outside of this framework.

“The current boundaries of embedded voice assistants lie in their limited ability to understand complex sentences. The NLU we’re working on will enable tomorrow’s assistants to not only perform as well as those available in the cloud, but also limit energy impact and protect our customers’ data.” said William Simonin, Vivoka’s co-founder and CEO.

The particularity of Vivoka, since the creation of its VDK (Voice Development Kit), is the fact that everything is offline (embedded). Indeed, the voice assistants, implemented in any device, can be used without an internet connection, which allows a total independence on the final product. This independence already takes effect in the development of Vivoka, which does not use any external components for this version of its software.

The disconnection mainly reduces the impact of data and data storage on the environment. Vivoka’s digital sobriety allows its customers to meet their sustainability goals while having a voice assistant as powerful as those connected.

The power of the cloud but embedded?​

Vivoka is the first company to achieve this!

“It was time to bring to the industry and to consumer electronic devices, the possibility to control their interfaces by voice, without having to make them dependent on the Internet, for a secure and operational use instantly. Well, it’s done with our voice development software VDK. In 2023, Vivoka brings embedded voice control to life with revolutionary AI functionality.” – confirms Emmanuel Chaligné, Product Director.

Many sectors, such as defense, industry, logistics or even household appliances, cannot depend on an internet-connected solution. As a result, the demand from players in these sectors is growing. Vivoka is not only established in France but worldwide thanks to this not so widespread technology. The development of this functionality based on natural language seemed logical to them:

“Today we export our VDK technology to all five continents and are present in many industrial sectors. We know the demand. Our partners have been waiting for a long time for a high-performance solution that allows their users to talk naturally to their systems, without going through the Internet. The technical barrier that we are going to remove with the first embedded NLU will make this possible. This was the logical next step in our development. It will allow Vivoka to show that the cloud is not an obligation, and that a company should not have to choose between performance and data protection.” says William Simonin.

Here are two examples of how an embedded NLU can be used:

• Professional setting:
  • Voice implemented in dental office chairs will allow practitioners to naturally and easily control patient height and tilt.
  • The NLU will enable next generation robots to be equipped with speech. Voice is a natural interaction and robots will be able to replicate human actions in many fields such as education, industry or health.
• Private setting:
  • In the future, household appliances will be controlled by voice without the need for the house to be connected and without an internet connection for these appliances. Users will not need to learn ready-made phrases, they will be able to speak naturally, as they would with other humans.

These are only 3 examples among many sectors concerned such as: IoT (internet of things), connected home, transport, logistics, education, connected glasses/headsets, robotics, defense and health

Hey mate, I'm going for a WOW, FIRE & LOVE. on this one. Good stuff

 

[Bravo]

Sometimes we just have to be patient to harvest the nectar and not sour fruit.
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Fantastic @cosors! Thanks for sharing!!!

 

[cosors]

So we know that Teksun partnered with us.

We know that Vivoka partnered with Teksun recently too.


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Hmmmm...clutching?...would be nice

https://vivoka.com/vivoka-challenges-the-voice-assistant-giants-with-its-offline-solution/

Vivoka challenges the voice assistant giants with its offline solution​

Written by Anaïs DAUFFER​

Latest | Press Releases​

Paris, France. April 11, 2023. Vivoka is announcing an NLU (Natural Language Understanding) technology that is as powerful as the cloud, but running in an embedded voice assistant. In doing so, Vivoka is challenging the biggest in voice technology such as Siri, Alexa or Google Assistant as the French company stands out for its ability to operate offline and thus advocate data protection and Green IT.

An almost human voice assistant?​

The NLU (natural language understanding) allows voice assistants to understand any vocal command as long as the user’s intention is clear. Today, artificial intelligence pushes the limits of what is possible by allowing real interactions between humans and machines.

The voice assistant focuses on the intention and not on the words in particular. The machine, which learns from examples, will refine its understanding to interact more easily, quickly and widely with humans; this is called Machine Learning. Until now, embedded voice assistants have included predefined phrases and voice commands could not go outside of this framework.

“The current boundaries of embedded voice assistants lie in their limited ability to understand complex sentences. The NLU we’re working on will enable tomorrow’s assistants to not only perform as well as those available in the cloud, but also limit energy impact and protect our customers’ data.” said William Simonin, Vivoka’s co-founder and CEO.

The particularity of Vivoka, since the creation of its VDK (Voice Development Kit), is the fact that everything is offline (embedded). Indeed, the voice assistants, implemented in any device, can be used without an internet connection, which allows a total independence on the final product. This independence already takes effect in the development of Vivoka, which does not use any external components for this version of its software.

The disconnection mainly reduces the impact of data and data storage on the environment. Vivoka’s digital sobriety allows its customers to meet their sustainability goals while having a voice assistant as powerful as those connected.

The power of the cloud but embedded?​

Vivoka is the first company to achieve this!

“It was time to bring to the industry and to consumer electronic devices, the possibility to control their interfaces by voice, without having to make them dependent on the Internet, for a secure and operational use instantly. Well, it’s done with our voice development software VDK. In 2023, Vivoka brings embedded voice control to life with revolutionary AI functionality.” – confirms Emmanuel Chaligné, Product Director.

Many sectors, such as defense, industry, logistics or even household appliances, cannot depend on an internet-connected solution. As a result, the demand from players in these sectors is growing. Vivoka is not only established in France but worldwide thanks to this not so widespread technology. The development of this functionality based on natural language seemed logical to them:

“Today we export our VDK technology to all five continents and are present in many industrial sectors. We know the demand. Our partners have been waiting for a long time for a high-performance solution that allows their users to talk naturally to their systems, without going through the Internet. The technical barrier that we are going to remove with the first embedded NLU will make this possible. This was the logical next step in our development. It will allow Vivoka to show that the cloud is not an obligation, and that a company should not have to choose between performance and data protection.” says William Simonin.

Here are two examples of how an embedded NLU can be used:

• Professional setting:
  • Voice implemented in dental office chairs will allow practitioners to naturally and easily control patient height and tilt.
  • The NLU will enable next generation robots to be equipped with speech. Voice is a natural interaction and robots will be able to replicate human actions in many fields such as education, industry or health.
• Private setting:
  • In the future, household appliances will be controlled by voice without the need for the house to be connected and without an internet connection for these appliances. Users will not need to learn ready-made phrases, they will be able to speak naturally, as they would with other humans.

These are only 3 examples among many sectors concerned such as: IoT (internet of things), connected home, transport, logistics, education, connected glasses/headsets, robotics, defense and health

@Deadpool .)

 

[Diogenese]

So we know that Teksun partnered with us.

We know that Vivoka partnered with Teksun recently too.


View attachment 36224


View attachment 36225

Hmmmm...clutching?...would be nice

https://vivoka.com/vivoka-challenges-the-voice-assistant-giants-with-its-offline-solution/

Vivoka challenges the voice assistant giants with its offline solution​

Written by Anaïs DAUFFER​

Latest | Press Releases​

Paris, France. April 11, 2023. Vivoka is announcing an NLU (Natural Language Understanding) technology that is as powerful as the cloud, but running in an embedded voice assistant. In doing so, Vivoka is challenging the biggest in voice technology such as Siri, Alexa or Google Assistant as the French company stands out for its ability to operate offline and thus advocate data protection and Green IT.

An almost human voice assistant?​

The NLU (natural language understanding) allows voice assistants to understand any vocal command as long as the user’s intention is clear. Today, artificial intelligence pushes the limits of what is possible by allowing real interactions between humans and machines.

The voice assistant focuses on the intention and not on the words in particular. The machine, which learns from examples, will refine its understanding to interact more easily, quickly and widely with humans; this is called Machine Learning. Until now, embedded voice assistants have included predefined phrases and voice commands could not go outside of this framework.

“The current boundaries of embedded voice assistants lie in their limited ability to understand complex sentences. The NLU we’re working on will enable tomorrow’s assistants to not only perform as well as those available in the cloud, but also limit energy impact and protect our customers’ data.” said William Simonin, Vivoka’s co-founder and CEO.

The particularity of Vivoka, since the creation of its VDK (Voice Development Kit), is the fact that everything is offline (embedded). Indeed, the voice assistants, implemented in any device, can be used without an internet connection, which allows a total independence on the final product. This independence already takes effect in the development of Vivoka, which does not use any external components for this version of its software.

The disconnection mainly reduces the impact of data and data storage on the environment. Vivoka’s digital sobriety allows its customers to meet their sustainability goals while having a voice assistant as powerful as those connected.

The power of the cloud but embedded?​

Vivoka is the first company to achieve this!

“It was time to bring to the industry and to consumer electronic devices, the possibility to control their interfaces by voice, without having to make them dependent on the Internet, for a secure and operational use instantly. Well, it’s done with our voice development software VDK. In 2023, Vivoka brings embedded voice control to life with revolutionary AI functionality.” – confirms Emmanuel Chaligné, Product Director.

Many sectors, such as defense, industry, logistics or even household appliances, cannot depend on an internet-connected solution. As a result, the demand from players in these sectors is growing. Vivoka is not only established in France but worldwide thanks to this not so widespread technology. The development of this functionality based on natural language seemed logical to them:

“Today we export our VDK technology to all five continents and are present in many industrial sectors. We know the demand. Our partners have been waiting for a long time for a high-performance solution that allows their users to talk naturally to their systems, without going through the Internet. The technical barrier that we are going to remove with the first embedded NLU will make this possible. This was the logical next step in our development. It will allow Vivoka to show that the cloud is not an obligation, and that a company should not have to choose between performance and data protection.” says William Simonin.

Here are two examples of how an embedded NLU can be used:

• Professional setting:
  • Voice implemented in dental office chairs will allow practitioners to naturally and easily control patient height and tilt.
  • The NLU will enable next generation robots to be equipped with speech. Voice is a natural interaction and robots will be able to replicate human actions in many fields such as education, industry or health.
• Private setting:
  • In the future, household appliances will be controlled by voice without the need for the house to be connected and without an internet connection for these appliances. Users will not need to learn ready-made phrases, they will be able to speak naturally, as they would with other humans.

These are only 3 examples among many sectors concerned such as: IoT (internet of things), connected home, transport, logistics, education, connected glasses/headsets, robotics, defense and health

Hi Fmf,

As you know, Vivoka's NLU is software.
"Indeed, the voice assistants, implemented in any device, can be used without an internet connection"

This is their picture of their Natural Language Understanding tech:

Akida1 could do the Automatic speech recognition. I'm not sure how deeply into the Natural Language Understanding Module Akida 2 would get, but if Akida 2 can do the job of the NLU, Vivoka is out of business.

Well they have their model libraries and word-association/sentence interpretation, but ... there are only 350K words in the english language (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, gerunds, prepositions, conjunctions, ...). I suppose French and many other languages would be in the same ball park. Of course, then there's the accents and dialects ...

 

[Sirod69]

„Obwohl es NICHT für diese Anwendungen entwickelt wurde. Ein echter Game Changer!“

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AKIDA BALLISTA – SPIELWECHSEL – ALLGEMEIN – BAHNBRECHEND – UNVERGLEICHLICHE LEISTUNG – MAGISCHE SAUCE –
KRYPTONIT – GRÖSSENORDNUNG EFFIZIENTER – 10 x GRÖSSER ALS MICROSOFT – 11 X GRÖSSER ALS BEN HUR – REVOLUTIONÄR – BLITZSCHNELL – DE-FAKTO-STANDARD – SUPER-CHIP AUF STEROIDEN

I would be ready! Are you setting up your pool again?

 

[Fullmoonfever]

Hi Fmf,

As you know, Vivoka's NLU is software.
"Indeed, the voice assistants, implemented in any device, can be used without an internet connection"

This is their picture of their Natural Language Understanding tech:

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Akida1 could do the Automatic speech recognition. I'm not sure how deeply into the Natural Language Understanding Module Akida 2 would get, but if Akida 2 can do the job of the NLU, Vivoka is out of business.

Well they have their model libraries and word-association/sentence interpretation, but ... there are only 350K words in the english language (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, gerunds, prepositions, conjunctions, ...). I suppose French and many other languages would be in the same ball park. Of course, then there's the accents and dialects ...

Cheers D

Was looking at that diagram on their site not long ago.

Was also just reading a recent blog by Readspeaker who already partnered with Vivoka with their TTS.

Excerpt from the blog quoting Aurélien Chapuzet from Vivoka.

Does seem focused on hardware partners....given some of the hardware Dev that Teksun do...wonder if we get in that way possibly?

IoT Voice Control: How a Voice Revolution Is Changing the Internet of Things

The next evolution of IoT is voice control. Find out how voice user interfaces are changing the way we interact with our connected devices.

www.readspeaker.com

IoT Voice Control: How a Voice Revolution Is Changing the Internet of Things​

Published on May 8, 2023

Where is IoT voice control heading next?​

So far, voice technology has focused on software. That software is deployed on IoT devices, certainly, but it often depends on cloud solutions—processing the data on a distant server.

The future will be in voice hardware. We need hardware that’s built from the ground up to leverage voice interaction, says Chapuzet. Some CPUs (think Apple) are already designed precisely for their operating software. Voice should be the same, with computing hardware that’s optimized to support voice on the device, further limiting the requirements of cloud computing.

 

[Sirod69]

​

I think someone wrote the wrong year on the homepage?​

BrainChip Showcases Edge AI Technologies at 2023 Embedded Vision Summit​

Laguna Hills, Calif. – May 10, 2022 – BrainChip Holdings Ltd (ASX: BRN, OTCQX: BRCHF, ADR: BCHPY), the world’s first commercial producer of ultra-low power, fully digital, event-based, neuromorphic AI IP, today announced that Chief Marketing Officer Nandan Nayampally has been selected to present as part of the Enabling Technologies track at the Embedded Vision Summit in the Santa Clara Convention Center May 23 at 4:50 p.m. PDT.

BrainChip Showcases Edge AI Technologies at 2023 Embedded Vision Summit

Stay informed about the latest advancements in AI as BrainChip showcases their innovative solutions for embedded vision applications.

brainchip.com

 

[Terroni2105]

 

[Frangipani]

Cheers D

Was looking at that diagram on their site not long ago.

Was also just reading a recent blog by Readspeaker who already partnered with Vivoka with their TTS.

Excerpt from the blog quoting Aurélien Chapuzet from Vivoka.

Does seem focused on hardware partners....given some of the hardware Dev that Teksun do...wonder if we get in that way possibly?

IoT Voice Control: How a Voice Revolution Is Changing the Internet of Things

The next evolution of IoT is voice control. Find out how voice user interfaces are changing the way we interact with our connected devices.

www.readspeaker.com

IoT Voice Control: How a Voice Revolution Is Changing the Internet of Things​

Published on May 8, 2023

Where is IoT voice control heading next?​

So far, voice technology has focused on software. That software is deployed on IoT devices, certainly, but it often depends on cloud solutions—processing the data on a distant server.

The future will be in voice hardware. We need hardware that’s built from the ground up to leverage voice interaction, says Chapuzet. Some CPUs (think Apple) are already designed precisely for their operating software. Voice should be the same, with computing hardware that’s optimized to support voice on the device, further limiting the requirements of cloud computing.



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Speaking of hardware partners…

After suggesting the other day next-generation mixed-reality headsets could be what Sean Hehir had alluded to in his podcast with Geoffrey Moore, I happened to stumble across a company called Vuzix, a leading supplier of smart glasses and augmented reality technology, headquartered in Rochester, NY.
Yes, exactly, the same city that is home to the Rochester Institute of Technology, that joined Brainchip’s University AI Accelerator Program six months ago.

Vuzix | Heads-Up, Hands-Free AR Smart Glasses

As a pioneer in wearable computing, augmented reality, waveguide optics, and display engines, Vuzix has been delivering solutions to customers for 25 years.

www.vuzix.com

I briefly had a look at their website that day, but couldn’t make out any clues right away whether they were using neuromorphic technology and then somehow got sidetracked and forgot about it. Until I saw the screenshot in @Bravo’s post #56,181, which included a link to a 2021 press release that immediately piqued my interest:

Vivoka's technology empowers Vuzix’s Smart Glasses – Vivoka

Vuzix’s Smart Glasses are equiped with the offline multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition provided by Vivoka’s Voice Development Kit.

vivoka.com

Vivoka empowers Vuzix’s Smart Glasses with modern and secured voice AI capabilities through the Voice Development Kit

Written by Aurélien Chapuzet​

Aurélien is leading content creation and marketing strategies at Vivoka.

Press Releases​

For its latest release, Vuzix’s widely renown Smart Glasses take a step ahead in human-machine interactions by bringing in the offline and multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) provided by Vivoka’s Voice Development Kit.

The Voice Development Kit is the result of several years of expertise in the field of voice. Gathering all the embedded speech technologies – proprietary or partner’s – companies and developers would need, the solution offers unparalleled access to the voice ecosystem. It is equipped with a user-friendly graphical interface that facilitates the choice, development and testing of multiple technologies, from automatic speech processing, wake words, to voice biometrics and text-to-speech.

Vuzix is an industry leader in Augmented Reality (AR) technology that provides innovative products to defense, security, and enterprise. For the release of its Smart Glasses’ latest version, Vuzix decided to promote voice interactions to bolster its devices’ interactivity. Voice in addition to augmented reality will develop the way users embrace wearable technologies in the different fields that are covered by the company’s reach.

The choice of embedded technologies is not trivial. Areas equipped with Vuzix’s smart glasses are affected by specific environments that make it difficult to have perfect connectivity for Cloud solutions. Vivoka’s solutions can run offline, on-device, to operate anywhere, anytime.

“At Vivoka, we all imagine a world where voice is the most natural way to interact with our surrounding technologies. With clients such as Vuzix, we are very proud to participate in a revolution that is carried by powerful innovation players. Wearables like Vuzix’s famous smart glasses will bring even more thrust in the voice tech mass adoption by companies. Our goal is more than ever to provide developers with state-of-the-art technologies that are easy to adopt and to turn into real inventions.” said William SIMONIN, Vivoka’s CEO and Co-Founder.

A Vuzix M4000 Smart Glasses customer performs a repair task using visual and voice-based assistance.

In this approach, the Voice Development Kit was used by the Vuzix Development Teams to create and customize an Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) engine able to understand any voice command that include specific vocabulary. The technology used is provided by Cerence, a partner integrated in Vivoka’s Voice Development Kit, which also technically assisted the teams in the success of the project. With 30 languages available, the solution makes it possible to meet the current and future needs of a company such as Vuzix, whose ambitions are not limited by borders.

“Our broad language support is a distinct competitive advantage for us across many foreign markets and we are happy to be working with a speech technology leader such as Vivoka to enable this,” said Paul Travers, President and CEO of Vuzix. “We continue to add additional functionalities and feature enhancements to our Smart Glasses all the time, many based on the ongoing customer feedback we receive, as we continue to leverage the power and performance of our robust hardware platform.”

Vivoka’s latest version of the Voice Development Kit has been released in early fall 2021 with brand new voice biometrics technologies. The solution is currently empowering many companies and industries with on-device voice-based capabilities : Mobility, Consumers Electronics, Robotics, Defense and Aerospace are some of the fields that rely on Vivoka’s solutions.

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About Vivoka
Vivoka is a French company located in Metz and founded in 2015 by William SIMONIN. Thanks to its innovative solutions, Vivoka has become the French leader in voice recognition with the Voice Development Kit. It allows any company and developer to configure an embedded voice assistant composed of one or more offline voice technologies in record time. Vivoka won the coveted Innovation Award at CES 2019. A feat it repeated by winning the Innovation Award in the Smart Cities category at CES 2020. Accompanied by a dynamic team of about 30 employees, Vivoka has managed to double the number of its customers this past year.

About Vuzix
Vuzix is a leading supplier of Smart Glasses and Augmented Reality (AR) technologies and products for the consumer and enterprise markets. The Company’s products include personal display and wearable computing devices that offer users a portable high-quality viewing experience, provide solutions for mobility, wearable displays and augmented reality. Vuzix holds 210 patents and patents pending and numerous IP licenses in the Video Eyewear field. The Company has won Consumer Electronics Show (or CES) awards for innovation for the years 2005 to 2021 and several wireless technology innovation awards among others. Founded in 1997, Vuzix is a public company (NASDAQ: VUZI) with offices in Rochester, NY, Oxford, UK, and Tokyo, Japan. For more information, visit the Vuzix website, Twitterand Facebook pages.

Laurent Scherchel, Communication & PR Manager – Vivoka
Mail : ls@vivoka.com
Ed McGregor, Director of Media and Investor Relations – Vuzix Corporation
Mail : ed_mcgregor@vuzix.com
Tel: (585) 359-5985

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Voilà! Now, if only we knew whether Vivoka was indeed using Akida. In that case of course there would also be the possibility that Vivoka could have found out about Akida through their cooperation with Vuzix.

One thing we do know - Vuzix is still working with Vivoka:

Vuzix Corporation Poised for Significant Growth and Expansion in AR and Smart Glasses Market

by Yasmim Mendonça

April 19, 2023

in News

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As of April 19, 2023, Vuzix Corporation stands out as a top-notch supplier of augmented reality (AR) technology and smart glasses. With over two decades of experience designing, manufacturing, marketing, and selling wearable display devices, including AR solutions and smart glasses, Vuzix has earned a well-deserved reputation as a leading producer.
In a recent shareholder letter, Vuzix’s President and CEO, Paul Travers, announced that 2023 would be a period of significant growth and solid revenues for the company. Vuzix anticipates strong revenue growth across its core products, which include smart glasses, OEM/engineering services, and SaaS software solutions. The company’s strong focus on the enterprise market, transitioning from proof of concept to commercial deployment, is expected to drive growth and expansion as the market evolves.
Moreover, Vuzix has bolstered its strategic partnership with AMA, a pioneer of assisted reality and workflow management software solutions. The Vuzix M400 smart glasses now support the entire XpertEye assisted reality product range, and the partnership has adopted the embedded Vivoka multilingual automatic speech recognition. This move is expected to help Vuzix address the rapid digital transformation of remote assistance.


Last but not least, here is the link to Vuzix’s recent investor presentation for anyone interested in the trends influencing the future of AR - those of you who think of gaming only will be more than surprised at the manifold fields of application, from open heart surgery, remote assistance to warehouse logistics. And as for use cases in the security field, „please contact Vuzix to discuss“…

https://vuzix-website.s3.amazonaws.com/files/Content/pdfs/Vuzix+April+2023.pdf

P.S.: Did I mention Qualcomm is working with Vuzix? But I assume this is opening up a too big a can of worms…

 

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I was keeping an eye on movements of Jean Luc-Chatelain as most of you probably were.

I have just seen that he has updated his LinkedIn profile to “Open to Work”

 

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A bit older 2022-02, but for me as a sceptical German it's nice to see any sign that Akida is known here. It's about a project funded by a federal state. And what do my tired eyes discover:

"PROJECT RESULTS​

In the course of the project, "event-based" cameras were used in parallel with classic "frame-based" cameras to create a data set with twelve different gestures/actions. This dataset was used to train both classical neural networks (CNN+LSTM) and spiking neural networks to classify the gestures shown. The networks trained in this way were run on corresponding hardware accelerators and the two resulting systems (classic and event-based) were compared in terms of prediction accuracy, electrical power consumption and generated data rate. The event-based system achieved a higher prediction accuracy with a significantly lower data rate and electrical power consumption. The figure shows a section of the demonstration system.final report can be extracted."
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"The SNNs were also ported as far as possible to the neuromorphic hardware platform BrainChip Akida and evaluated there in terms of throughput and electrical power consumption. A comparison with the simulation of the SNN on a GPU-based computer and with the values of the KNN-based system can be seen in Table 3."

Means power consumption and frames per second
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The entire final report translated see attached.


It is/was about:
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The Germans can read the report here:
https://www.embeddedneurovision.de/...2-02-abschlussbericht-embeddedneurovision.pdf

https://www.embeddedneurovision.de/

https://www.fzi.de/

https://www.inferics.com/

https://www.hs-analysis.com/

Who knows, maybe one of the project participants is among us?


"In addition, the system is connected to an Nvidia Jetson NX8 AI processor and a BrainChip Akida as a neuromorphic AI processor.
neural networks that the partners have developed as part of the project. developed by the partners as part of the project.
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The development kits CeleX5_MP from CelePixel Technology Co. LTD and Gen 4.0 from Prophesee are used as hardware.
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In the end, Norse was used in combination with Tonic as a framework, as these promised sufficient functionality, fast results and easy integration of event camera data. Recurrent, convolutional and fully networked variants were chosen as SNN models.
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The best results were obtained with a combination of recurrent, fully wired and convolutional layers, which achieve a very high accuracy of about 98% for 3 classes with less than 400,000 parameters. A detailed list and comparison of the different networks and accuracies can be found in Table 2.
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HS Analysis has experienced great interest from our existing customers as well as some potential new customers to apply SNNs in commercial products, especially in the area of process monitoring. The main interest here is in the reduced energy consumption and increased data protection of event-based cameras. This enables data protection-compliant process monitoring even in areas accessible to the public, and the reduced power requirement offers the possibility of operating on-edge devices via Power-over-Ethernet (PoE), which simplifies deployment. Our previous core product, the HSA KIT, which is a toolbox of different which includes a toolbox of various customised AI analyses, can also be extended with the SNN knowledge gained in the project. This means that advanced, minimalistic time series analyses are now possible, for which we have already started with the quotation and ordering process."


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I would also give a general tip not to always search in English. For the first time I had today the idea of searching in my own language ("gepulste neuronale Netze" ~ spiking neural network).

Does FCAS mean anything to you? There is no entry here.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Combat_Air_System
In addition to the companies mentioned above the Fraunhofer-Institut is deeply involved in the development of military equipment, as I heard on the radio yesterday. Was new to me. This is one of the top research institutions in our country.

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