Smart Voice Processors from STMicroelectronics introduced
VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE STMicroelectronics has introduced a digital audio processor for multi-microphone applications. ST's new Smart Voice product family claims to combine superior processing performance with unparalleled scalability and programmability to bring dramatic sound-quality improvements to mobile phones, tablets, gaming devices and video security systems. The Smart Voice audio processors is supposed to unleash the powerful capabilities of digital MEMS microphones in multi-microphone arrays, especially for ST's MEMS microphones, enabling features like acoustic echo cancellation, noise suppression, or beam-forming, which are invaluable with the increasing use of cell phones and other consumer devices in noisy and uncontrollable environments. Multi-microphone systems are also expected to address next-generation audio applications, such as 3D sound processing, sound-source localization, virtual microphones, and audio zooming. A technology breakthrou...