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News Release from: NCT Europe
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 15 July 2005
Communications software on the shortlist
NCT Europe has been shortlisted for the prestigious European Electronics Awards, in recognition of its research and development in the field of noise reduction and echo cancellation.
Cambridge technology company NCT Europe has been shortlisted for the prestigious European Electronics Awards, in recognition of its research and development in the field of noise reduction and echo cancellation in communications systems - technologies that are essential for today's competitive voice systems NCT's ClearSpeech technology exists in millions of products around the world, such as 3G mobile phones and hands-free systems
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 2 Sep 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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ClearSpeech is also used in Formula 1 team communication systems, often regarded as the ultimate test for noise reduction software.
ClearSpeech is very much an enabling technology for today's mobile phones and communication systems, and for tomorrow's voice recognition and in-car systems.
ClearSpeech is a suite of complex, highly refined software algorithms that provide noise cancellation for human listeners, noise cancellation for voice recognition, echo cancellation and signal conditioning.
By removing background noise and voice echo, ClearSpeech is able to vastly improve voice quality in a diverse range of communication systems.
ClearSpeech is even used in "drive through" intercoms.
The NCT team, a combination of mathematicians and software engineers, has been developing voice technologies for the past 15 years, and the current version of ClearSpeech is the product of over 70 man years of research and development.
"Being shortlisted for this award is great news", said Dr Gillian Davis, Managing Director of NCT.
"Our voice technologies are helping some of the world's leading mobile phone manufacturers and communication system developers to create better products, so it's exciting for our team to have this recognition".
Although NCT works closely with some of Cambridge's leading technology companies, it also works with major manufacturers in the Far East, Scandinavia and the USA.
Its technology runs on a range of DSPs and CPUs and has recently been developed to run on Cambridge Silicon Radio's Bluecore3 Bluetooth device.
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