Hi Bravo,Thanks @DJM263!
I also thought it was pretty interesting that the article discusses Google and Qualcomm joint offering for automakers to create voice assistants that can work without relying on the driver’s phone.
To my technologically untrained mind, I assume this will all be part of the vehicle’s voice control system, and the voice control system, as we all know, was one of the systems that Mercedes and BrainChip worked on with such acclaim on the EQXX.
I hope this proves to be something that includes us, rather than us being merely sidelined for Qualcomm's technology.![]()
Qualcomm and Google each have patents in the AI field generally using MACs, but I haven't come across any that use spikes.
With NLP, the input speech needs to be classified, and using conventional CNN with MACs is very power hungry. Mercedes remarked on the power efficiency of Akida back in 2022, and energy efficiency is crucial for EVs. Akida 1 can classify individual woeds, but NLP needs to take account of the time element.
There is also the current boosting of software defined vehicles (SDV) by Mecedes and Valeo among others, which dovetails with BRN's recently disclosed algorithm product line.
So is this where TENNS comes in?