CEVA and Waves Audio announced that they have collaborated to address the substantial demand for far-field voice pickup and psychoacoustic sound enhancement solutions across the mobile, smart home and wireless audio markets.

Integrating and optimizing Waves Audio’s MaxxAudio and MaxxVoice technologies with CEVA’s audio/voice DSP, the companies have created powerful and power efficient solutions with a host of features that enhance the user experience.

For devices targeting far-field voice applications, MaxxVoice improves speech recognition and integrates far-field voice pick up and barge-in capabilities using acoustic echo cancellation (AEC). The companies offer highly-optimized, cost-efficient solutions for these use cases where the CEVA audio/voice DSP has performance to run both suites of technologies, simultaneously, if required.

“In the new age of smart devices, voice is becoming a primary interface to control and interact, requiring advanced algorithms and processors to deliver a seamless experience," said Tomer Elbaz, EVP & GM Consumer Electronics Division of Waves Audio.

“Voice and audio are at the forefront of many of the most exciting new applications in the consumer and electronics industries, taking advantage of new techniques and technologies to deliver vastly enhanced user experiences,” said Eran Belaish, product marketing manager, audio & voice at CEVA. They will present these solutions at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona next week.