The Era of Shared Touch is Ending - Story
April 16, 2020As our machines got more intricate and complex, touch made a lot of sense for mechanical devices.
Voice Assistants Going Embedded - Story
January 13, 2020Everyone knows that the use of voice assistants is exploding. Just returning from CES, it was amazing to see the number of booths that support Amazon?s Alexa and Google?s Assistant.
Taking Back Control of Our Personal Data - Story
March 11, 2019As digital assistant technologies get smarter, there will be more concern about what private data they collect, store and share over the internet.
Biometrics Place in the Embedded Industry - Blog
October 25, 2018Sensory?s focus on AI and biometrics has always been on the embedded side. We believe in data privacy and we think the best way to accomplish that is through keeping it in the hands of the user.
Voice assistant battles, part three: The challenges - Blog
August 10, 2018It?s not easy to be a retailer today when more and more people are turning to Amazon for shopping. And why not shop online?
Voice assistant battles, part two: The strategic importance - Blog
August 03, 2018Build a cross platform user experience that makes it easy for consumers to interact, control and request things through their assistant.
Voice assistant battles, part one - Blog
July 25, 2018I have spoken on a lot of ?voice? oriented shows over the years, and it has been disappointing that there hasn?t been more discussion about the competition in the industry.
Smart speakers coming from all over - Other
October 10, 2017Amazon, Google, Sonos, and LINE all introduced smart speakers within a few weeks of each other.
Architectures for Implementing a Hardware-in-the-Loop System - Whitepaper
October 10, 2017Download this whitepaper to find out more about implementing a Hardware-In-the-Loop system into your test environment.
Alexa on batteries: A life-changing door just opened - Other
September 25, 2017The day before the Alexa Smart Glasses was announced, Amazon released details of a Fire Tablet upgrade, with one of the key features being a way to make Alexa Handsfree.
Apple erred on facial recognition - Other
September 14, 2017There are many theories about what happened with Apple's FaceID. Let's discuss what failure means and 2D vs. 3D cameras. There are three classes of failure: accuracy, spoofability, and user experience
Here's what's next for always listening devices - Other
August 28, 2017Here are some of the things that will be appearing over the next 10 (or more) years to make always listening better and different.
Embedded AI is here - Other
February 08, 2017The wonders of deep learning are well utilized in the area of artificial intelligence, aka AI. Massive amounts of training data can be processed on very powerful platforms to create wonderful...
Untethering virtual assistants from Wi-Fi - Other
January 31, 2017The hands-free personal assistant that you can wake on voice and talk to naturally has significantly gained popularity the last couple of years. This...
Will passports one day be secured with biometrics? - Other
July 14, 2016Cybersecurity was an important topic at Mobile World Congress Shanghai. I was invited to join a panel with cybersecurity experts from Intel, Huawei, N...
Embedded Biometrics Let Your Products Know You - Blog
January 14, 2016I used to get frustrated when I went on Netflix and got recommendations for 12-year old girls, because my daughters' preferences got mixed into mine.
Deploying speech recognition locally versus the cloud - Other
December 17, 2015Everyone familiar with Siri, Google Now, Cortana, S-Voice, and/or Echo is familiar with the progress and improvement in speech recognition over the pa...
My humble advice for Samsung Mobile - Other
December 09, 2015Let me say that I welcome Dong-Jin Koh to lead Samsung Mobile. Samsung has a huge opportunity ahead of itself, and I have some strong opinions on how...