Overview

Our HDClear™-based voice processing solution for smartphones enables voice clarity when voice is being used for communicating or interacting with a smartphone anytime, anywhere – even in noisy environments. Elimination of background noise is critical to a smartphone's multi-functional use of voice across multiple daily use cases; our solution's consistent high performance makes it suitable across all use cases. Providing OEMs with a high-performance offering, the solution ensures low cost, low power and a small footprint, while offering myriad benefits to consumers, MNOs and OEMs.

Benefits

Consumers

Noisy environment voice clarity
- Processes and eliminates a wide range of noise levels
- Processes and eliminates a wide range of noise types (e.g. home, outdoors)
Privacy protection
- Eliminates background noise to ensure caller-location privacy
Close-talk (handheld handset mode)
- Voice calls
- ASR-enabled applications
Handheld speakerphone mode
- Voice calls
- Video conferences
- ASR-enabled applications
- Voice memos
- Voice calls while simultaneously using other applications via touch screen

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Enhanced listening experience
- Hear the other side clearly
- Customize the fidelity of the voice heard (voice conditioning)

MNOs

Industry-standard compliance
MNO standard compliance and requirements
- Supports GSMA HD Voice
Multiple intra-network voice codec support
Compressed voice efficiency without noise
Easy-voice/no-voice detection

OEMs

Greater differentiation (new, better voice features)
Market-requirement compliance
Easy integration
- Digital interfaces and control
- Software API for fast system software integration
Flexible microphone location
Tool suite for fine tuning and testing
Short time to market
Low development costs
Small footprint
Low power
Cost effectiveness

Highlights

Noise elimination for far-end users
Noise reduction for near-end users
TruSpeakerphone™: elimination of background noise ensuring voice clarity in speakerphone mode
Improved speech-recognition accuracy rate for a range of ASR-based applications by eliminating background noise as well as voice processing (as pre-process for speech recognition)
Slow/fast speech speed: easy listening and voice-message retrieving (FlexiSpeech™)
HD voice listening experience (via voice and speaker conditioning as well as user’s customized frequency response)
Multiple standard digital interfaces

Smartphones