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[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

Reading Time: 2 mins read



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…

 

[Terroni2105]

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”

 

[Deleted member 118]

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.
...
The development kits CeleX5_MP from CelePixel Technology Co. LTD and Gen 4.0 from Prophesee are used as hardware.
...
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.
...
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.
...
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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[FrederikSchack]

I previously thought little of SynSense, because they seem to have narrow targets with their products, plus not selling IP and that's still the same picture I get from the below article. On the other hand, the narrow focus and hardware implementation maybe give more tangible products to their customers:

https://www.eetimes.com/synsense-demos-neuromorphic-processor-in-customers-toy-robot/

It seems like the adoption of SynSense is still slow and I'm not very impressed that Dynap-CNN has a latency of 200ms for audio recognition!??? But it's enough for a toy.

 

[Labsy]

Look familiar

 

[TheFunkMachine]

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In recent interview with Edge Impulse, Sean Heir mentioned that they are working on communication as something exciting. Zack kind of jokingly said “what like walki talkies”.

Then Sean went on stating that what he was referring to was more like telecommunications, radio technologies etc.

This comment from Joe talking about RF signal processing is interesting in light of what Sean talked about in that interview. I will have to go back and Re listen to it as I can’t quite pinpoint it exactly.

But this is what Chat GPT says RF signal processing is:

RF signal processing refers to the techniques and methods used for processing signals in the radio frequency (RF) range, typically from a few kilohertz to several gigahertz. These signals are used in a wide range of applications, including radio and television broadcasting, telecommunications, radar, and wireless networking.

The processing of RF signals involves a range of techniques, including modulation, demodulation, filtering, amplification, and frequency conversion. These processes are used to extract useful information from the RF signal, remove unwanted noise and interference, and prepare the signal for further processing or transmission.

RF signal processing is an important field of study in electrical engineering and communications, as it plays a critical role in the design and operation of many modern technologies.

 

[DollazAndSense]

In recent interview with Edge Impulse, Sean Heir mentioned that they are working on communication as something exciting. Zack kind of jokingly said “what like walki talkies”.

Then Sean went on stating that what he was referring to was more like telecommunications, radio technologies etc.

This comment from Joe talking about RF signal processing is interesting in light of what Sean talked about in that interview. I will have to go back and Re listen to it as I can’t quite pinpoint it exactly.

But this is what Chat GPT says RF signal processing is:

RF signal processing refers to the techniques and methods used for processing signals in the radio frequency (RF) range, typically from a few kilohertz to several gigahertz. These signals are used in a wide range of applications, including radio and television broadcasting, telecommunications, radar, and wireless networking.

The processing of RF signals involves a range of techniques, including modulation, demodulation, filtering, amplification, and frequency conversion. These processes are used to extract useful information from the RF signal, remove unwanted noise and interference, and prepare the signal for further processing or transmission.

RF signal processing is an important field of study in electrical engineering and communications, as it plays a critical role in the design and operation of many modern technologies.

Intellisense seem to agree Akida is a good fit for these type of use cases too.

"We are excited to partner with BrainChip and leverage their state-of-the-art neuromorphic technology," said Frank T. Willis, President and CEO of Intellisense. "By integrating BrainChip's Akida processor into our cognitive radio solutions, we will be able to provide our customers with an unparalleled level of performance, adaptability and reliability.

Intellisense's intelligent radio frequency (RF) system solutions enable wireless devices and platforms to sense and learn the characteristics of the communications environment in real time, providing enhanced communication quality, reliability and security. By integrating BrainChip’s Akida™ neuromorphic processor, Intellisense can deliver even more advanced, yet energy efficient, cognitive capabilities to its RF system solutions.”

 

[Kachoo]

In recent interview with Edge Impulse, Sean Heir mentioned that they are working on communication as something exciting. Zack kind of jokingly said “what like walki talkies”.

Then Sean went on stating that what he was referring to was more like telecommunications, radio technologies etc.

This comment from Joe talking about RF signal processing is interesting in light of what Sean talked about in that interview. I will have to go back and Re listen to it as I can’t quite pinpoint it exactly.

But this is what Chat GPT says RF signal processing is:

RF signal processing refers to the techniques and methods used for processing signals in the radio frequency (RF) range, typically from a few kilohertz to several gigahertz. These signals are used in a wide range of applications, including radio and television broadcasting, telecommunications, radar, and wireless networking.

The processing of RF signals involves a range of techniques, including modulation, demodulation, filtering, amplification, and frequency conversion. These processes are used to extract useful information from the RF signal, remove unwanted noise and interference, and prepare the signal for further processing or transmission.

RF signal processing is an important field of study in electrical engineering and communications, as it plays a critical role in the design and operation of many modern technologies.

You are correct Sean did say they are working with the communication company and NOT HAND SETS is what I heard. This makes a very compelling connection. Regardles Joe who used t oj work for DARPA with 500 million annual budgets speaks highly of Akida.
IMO I think his words have more weight then some negative bashers or writers looking for pennies.

If you research about Joe you will see how much influence he has in the DoD and see the potential income BRN can receive being in such projects. IMO

This is really big news that validates Akida even further then before. IMO

I do believe that this eco system approach gaining traction.

 

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[FabricatedLunacy]

Sorry if already posted.

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Excuse my ignorance...

Do we think this could/will contain BRN?

 

[Diogenese]

Excuse my ignorance...

Do we think this could/will contain BRN?

There is nothing to suggest that it will contain Akida, but we live in hope.

AI is flavour of the month.

ARM have Helium and Ethos, so they would not qualify as "more advanced".

ARM need to make a splash for their IPO.

What better way than adding the best and only digital SNN to M85?

 

[FabricatedLunacy]

There is nothing to suggest that it will contain Akida, but we live in hope.

AI is flavour of the month.

ARM have Helium and Ethos, so they would not qualify as "more advanced".

ARM need to make a splash for their IPO.

What better way than adding the best and only digital SNN to M85?

Thanks. Makes sense.

And had to Google SNN

 

[Foxdog]

There is nothing to suggest that it will contain Akida, but we live in hope.

AI is flavour of the month.

ARM have Helium and Ethos, so they would not qualify as "more advanced".

ARM need to make a splash for their IPO.

What better way than adding the best and only digital SNN to M85?

True and the timing of the recent podcast with ARM is also interesting. Are they setting the scene for the IPO? Upcoming BRN AGM could reveal some gems, although they might be disguised somewhat. Would be awesome for those attending to dig a little with pertinent questions.

 

[GDJR69]

Sentiment on this site seems to be improving and there seems to be some upward pressure on the share price now with volume of buyers to sellers looking a lot more positive - and why not? With all we know about what is going on the in the background with the partnerships and interest in the product surely it's just a matter of time now before we see concrete commercial announcements and revenue rolling in. You can't tell me that with everything going on right now, some very exciting things, that none of it will come to fruition. This is still the most exciting stock to be in IMO.

 

[Damo4]

Sentiment on this site seems to be improving and there seems to be some upward pressure on the share price now with volume of buyers to sellers looking a lot more positive - and why not? With all we know about what is going on the in the background with the partnerships and interest in the product surely it's just a matter of time now before we see concrete commercial announcements and revenue rolling in. You can't tell me that with everything going on right now, some very exciting things, that none of it will come to fruition. This is still the most exciting stock to be in IMO.

Patience is key, and I think the hard push down has rattled a few people.
Bottoming out around 40c now, so at least they don't feel like hope is lost anymore.
It's the reason the SP shouldn't be taken as an indication of company performance as that's an up-and-to-the-right trend, disproportionate to the SP.

Agreed, this is still a very exciting stock, and we will be rewarded, that I fully believe.

 

[TECH]

There is nothing to suggest that it will contain Akida, but we live in hope.

AI is flavour of the month.

ARM have Helium and Ethos, so they would not qualify as "more advanced".

ARM need to make a splash for their IPO.

What better way than adding the best and only digital SNN to M85?

Who have you been having quiet lemon and ginger teas with ?

 

[Diogenese]

Who have you been having quiet lemon and ginger teas with ?

A McLaren Vale shiraz is more my cup of tea.

 

[equanimous]

A McLaren Vale shiraz is more my cup of tea.

Breakfast of champions