Product category:
Embedded Software and Operating Systems
News Release from: NCT Europe
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 12 August 2005
Audio technology to feature at
automotive seminar
Cambridge technology company NCT will present at Embedded Automotive, to be held near Cambridge, UK on Tuesday 15th November.
Cambridge technology company NCT will present at Embedded Automotive, to be held near Cambridge, UK on Tuesday 15th November 2005 NCT is a world leader in the development of noise reduction, echo cancellation and signal conditioning, technologies that are essential for today's competitive voice systems
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 2 Sep 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Nathan Blundy, Field Application Engineer, explained: "There are a lot of challenges when using voice systems within a vehicle cabin space".
"Whether it 's the road noise or the echo that can be created by the cabin space or even extreme engine noise in motor sports applications, there is a lot of technology that goes into providing both the talker and the listener with the clarity of communication that they have come to expect".
"This presentation will explain some of the fundamental concepts that are used in this field".
NCT's ClearSpeech technology 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.
The NCT team, a combination of mathematicians, software and acoustic 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.
"Noise and echo in vehicles is not just concerned with mobile communications".
"With the anticipated growth of interactive voice systems (IVS) within vehicles, it will be essential that the IVS will hear the talker with optimum clarity".
"We have been working on special technology to address this challenge and this will be discussed in the presentation also", said Blundy.
This year's Embedded Automotive seminar is entitled "Building the perfect beast" and is open to engineers and managers working in the embedded electronics space, or simply wishing to keep up to date with embedded technology.
Covering such topics as voice systems in cars, using real-time kernels in automotive design, future trends in debugging automotive systems and development tools, this seminar will represent a chance for embedded engineers to learn of the latest developments and meet with experts in this field.
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