Called Akida Pico and described as event-based co-processor, it is intended for “voice wake detection, keyword spotting, speech noise reduction, audio enhancement, presence detection, personal voice assistant, automatic doorbell, wearable AI and appliance voice interfaces”, according to the company.
As a co-processor, it would be responsible for waking a host processor, using its neural network to filter out false alarms.
The company has software to to compile and optimise ‘temporal-enabled neural networks’ created with with TensorFlow/Keras and Pytorch for the new core.
“Users avoid needing to learn a new machine language framework while developing and deploying AI applications for the edge,” said BrainChip.
