MATRIX Voice makes debut at InfoComm 2017
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The introduction of MATRIX Voice to the global commercial AV industry comes on the heels of a crowdfunding campaign that raised over $94,000 – exceeding its original goal of $5,000.
“The success we experienced crowdfunding MATRIX Voice is a testament to its versatility, affordability, and ease-of-use. Any project, large or small, commercial or residential, can now be infused with voice control functionality in a way like never before,” said Rodolfo Saccoman, MATRIX Labs and AdMobilize co-founder and CEO. “There is proven demand for voice control and voice recognition functionality. With MATRIX Voice, integrators now have the ability to offer their end-user clients, in nearly every vertical market, the opportunity to control their systems using voice commands.”
Measuring 3.14-inches in diameter, MATRIX Voice features voice recognition integration with Google Voice and Amazon Alexa to name a few. It offers a radial array of 8 MEMS microphones connected to a Xilinx Spartan6 FPGA + 512 Mbit DDR SDRAM, which, when combined, provides developers with the opportunity to integrate custom voice and other hardware-accelerated machine learning algorithms right onto the board.
Voice also includes 64 GPIO pins for device-to-device connection. Other features include far-field voice capture, beamforming, acoustic source localization, noise suppression, de-reverberation and acoustic echo cancellation, and more.
“Whether it’s a retail shopping centre looking to enhance the searchability of its store directories; a hotel looking to expedite their check-in process; or a financial services institution looking to bolster security – voice control functionality can be applied to any vertical market project,” continued Saccoman. “And with MATRIX Voice, integration with various hardware/software components is easy thanks to its compatibility and configurability with Raspberry Pi or the ESP32 board.”
(Jim Evans)
