"I can’t get enough of Fire HD 10’s hands-free Alexa feature."
Jeffrey Van Camp, wired.com
"Last year, we introduced Alexa hands-free on the Fire HD 10 and customers are loving it—in fact, the Fire HD 10 is now our highest-rated Fire tablet"
Kevin Keith, Amazon Devices General Manager
"Faceprint and Voiceprint on the LG V30, they both work really well. I especially like the ‘Face Unlock’ feature."
Joe Fedewa, Phandroid
"The most exciting addition to the Fire HD 10 is the "Alexa Hands-free" mode."
Mashable
"Using Alexa on the Fire HD 10 (2017) is just as easy as it is on the Echo, simply utter her name and then ask or command."
Simon Hill, TechRadar
"The Ecobee4 is the new smart thermostat to beat (Nest who?) "
CNet
"Even with music blaring, the Sonos One will recognize the Alexa hotword without you having to shout"
Chris Welch, The Verge
"LG has provided various security options so you don’t have to use the fingerprint scanner if you don’t want. You can also unlock the phone with your face, the old school Knock Code or even your voice."
Chris Martin, TechAdvisor
"The Moto Z2 Play takes voice commands a step further...you can do things with a “show me” command...without unlocking or even touching the phone. It only works with my voice for security."
Dan Seifert, The Verge
VoiceGenie users will be able to chat with Google Assistant, Siri, Cortana, or Alexa anywhere -- totally hands-free. You just speak the wake word.
CNet
Ecobee4 Review: The First Smart Thermostat with Alexa
Tom's Guide
VoiceGenie, a solution that allows most wireless headphones to utilize the power of Amazon’s Alexa on the go
Android Headlines
VoiceGenie delivers low-powered speech recognition technology to wireless headphones and headsets.
Wearable
VoiceGenie could change the way we interact with the devices already firmly embedded in our lives -- and it could make voice assistants just as integral.
CNet
Amazon is relying on voice models that are key components of Sensory’s speech recognition suite.
Business Intelligence
Sensory is enabling what it calls “wakeup words” — that is, terms and phrases that trigger the always-on listening that is a hallmark of assistants like Google Now and Siri — on devices that integrate Amazon’s Alexa.
Digital Trends
Sensory, which focuses on voice recognition, teams up with Alexa's creators to make it easier for third-party developers to create voice-activated devices.
CNET
Sensory won Best Innovation in Deep Learning at the Alconics awards; First Place in Mobile Security and Privacy at the CTIA Emerging Technology (E-Tech) Awards; and Star Performer at the Speech Industry Awards, where CEO Todd Mozer also won a Luminary Award.
FindBiometrics
Samsung Partners With Sensory For Face/Voice Biometrics
AndroidHeadlines.com
Say out loud 'GoPro, start recording' and the camera starts recording, no fuzzing with buttons.
Geoffrey Fowler, Wall Street Journal
…it works well even at a distance. You just shout "okay Garmin," the lights on the camera will blink, and then you can tell it to do things like start or stop recording, or take a photo.
The Verge
Huawei also created this cool feature to help you find your phone more quickly. It’s called voice wake up, and you can ask your phone “Where are you?” or some other phrase, and your phone will respond, saying, “I’m here,” and play music until you find it.
Malarie Gokey, digitaltrends.com
The best upgrade to the controls, though, has to be voice control...The Hero5 Black understands seven languages.
Brent Rose, Wired
Most notably though, this new shooter supports voice commands, letting you control it via phrases such as, ‘Okay Garmin, start recording.’
Engadget
GoPro added voice controls for starting and stopping recordings, snapping photos and even tagging highlights in your clips by saying "That was sick!" and "Oh sh*t!" It works really well, and there are currently 10 commands and support for seven languages.
Sean O'Kane, The Verge
So if the cloud’s not private, how can your TV respond to voice commands? Simple. Use speech-recognition services that are baked right into the TV – no cloud required.
Ted Kritsonis, Digital Trends
Voice commands are where both Hero 5 cameras flex their smarts.
Geoffrey Fowler, Wall Street Journal
One of the coolest features on the Garmin VIRB Ultra 30 is the ability to use your voice to control the camera.
ZDNet
Of particular interest is the fact that TrulySecure is an on-device biometric identification system that does not rely on a connection to the cloud. Many users prefer this approach because they do not wish for their biometric data to be replicated and stored outside of their personal devices.
Max Maxfield, EE Times
TrulySecure works by watching and listening as you repeat a passphrase a couple times. The system tracks the way your lips move and registers the unique attributes of your voice.
Josh Ong, The Next Web
Given Qualcomm’s prominence as a mobile technology developer and the technological advancement on display in its latest offerings, the partnership reflects very well on the confidence the company has in Sensory’s technology.
Alex Perala, Mobile ID World
With touchless control, Motorola and Google upped the ante.
Eric Mack, CNET
Speech recognition company Sensory is expanding into the computer vision space with a new smartphone security client that uses both voice and face recognition to lock down your phone.
Kevin Fitchard, Gigaom
MotoX is a fantastic phone with many great features. My favorite is Touchless Control… Ask it the weather, to call a friend or do a Google search, and it'll just do it, and you never have to touch the phone.
Pete Pachal, Mashable
Sensory is continuing to exhibit leadership in handsfree control by allowing a secure multimodal biometric that doesn’t require touching devices to make them work.
Dan Miller, Opus Research
Touchless mode...is the most useful feature [on Moto X].
David Pogue, NY Times
The defining feature of the Moto X is it’s a virtual ear, always straining to hear its owner’s voice say three magic words that will rouse it to action: "Okay, Google Now."
Steven Levy, WIRED
The phone [Moto X] has all the standard features expected of today’s top smartphone, with a twist: the ability to control the phone by talking to it, without lifting a finger.
The New York Times
The voice-response system, called BlueGenie is surprisingly accurate for such a small device. It's better than the voice system in my Blackberry phone.
US News and World Report
[BlueGenie is] an intuitive voice control system...the finest voice recognition user interface we've seen.
Good Gear Guide
Sensory is trying to revolutionize voice and speech recognition by creating TrulyHandsfree, which looks to evolve our interactions with our smart devices.
Talk Android
It may not seem like much, but that little detail of getting the phone to wake up via a voice command - which Sensory calls ‘TrulyHandsfree’ - is one of the trickiest.
Mashable
With its dual biometric factors, AppLock comes closer to the security-and-convenience ideal than I've ever seen.
Mike Feibus, usatoday
Sensory TrulySecure Face Authentication Software Now Available on Cadence Tensilica Imaging/Vision DSPs
SAN JOSE, Calif., October 13, 2015—Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS) today announced that Sensory’s TrulySecure™ face authentication software is now available on the Cadence® Tensilica® Vision P5 digital signal processor (DSP). Ported by vision industry experts at Sensory, this new technology makes it much easier for mobile designers to lower the power needed for face authentication to unlock a mobile phone, tablet, or their Internet of Things (IoT) device using a standard camera.
Sensory’s face recognition technology uses a standard mobile phone camera to identify users and authenticate their face to unlock the device. By utilizing the Tensilica Vision P5 DSP and Cadence’s extensive imaging/vision software function library, which is optimized to lower processing time by over 8X compared to a standard host CPU, system designers can easily deploy Sensory’s robust, secure and extremely quick authentication technology. More information on Sensory’s TrulySecure face authentication technology.
The Tensilica family of imaging/vision DSPs was designed for the complex algorithms in imaging, video and computer vision applications including innovative multi-frame image capture, video pre- and post-processing, object and face recognition, low-light enhancement and many other complex tasks.
“Working with Cadence Tensilica to offer Sensory’s advanced TrulySecure facial recognition technology on their Vision P5 DSPs gives their customers, including those in emerging verticals like wearables and IoT, the ability to take full advantage of the security offered by our embedded face biometric authentication in their product designs,” said Dr. Gordon Haupt, senior director of Vision Technology at Sensory.
About Cadence Cadence enables global electronic design innovation and plays an essential role in the creation of today’s integrated circuits and electronics. Customers use Cadence software, hardware, IP and services to design and verify advanced semiconductors, consumer electronics, networking and telecommunications equipment, and computer systems. The company is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with sales offices, design centers and research facilities around the world to serve the global electronics industry. More information about the company, its products and its services is available here .
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